Avatars

This scares me...I mean really it does. Real people, pretending to be someone else or having the ability to be someone else in an endless world, just scares me. Yes not everyone is bad. yes not everyone ruines opportunities that are offered in the cyberspace. And yes not everyone is different than what their Avatar looks like. However, there are people out there looking for certain things that they can only get away with in the virtual world compared to the real world. The virtual world is not bounded by laws of physics or held back by science or morals or beliefs. it is an endless mass that is moldable by anyone with any motive.
I have used AIM for a while, a few years actually, but I have only used it for communicating with people I already know. I have googled 3D talk things, and stubble across IMVU...which is a 3D chat program where you can design your avatar, talk with other avatars in different settings of your choice that you acutally pay real money to buy furniture, tv, or even a hot tube and throw parties to invite other avatars to meet with them. And just for the sake of keeping this pg-13, you can also do naughty things with other avatars if you pay a certain amount for and 18 or older section. which is a little over board for me, but if it's your thing then more power to you huh? well anyway, i met up with a friend of mine and we ended up on top of a sky scraper standing on the edge looking down over the city and moving cars and bright lights below our feet! it was so beautiful and it just took our conversations to the next level just by our surroundings! It was so amazing! So check it out...it's free to download it and then you actually have a webpage to display yourself or whoever you want to be in the virtual world. IMVU