Cinemassively: Wonderland documentary focuses on virtual adultery in cyberspace

by Moo Money on Feb 6th 2008 12:30PM

Real life, Video, Second Life, Cinemassively, Machinima

The BBC recently aired a documentary about Second Life that focuses on a much darker side of it. A husband, Lee, starts to notice that his wife of nine years, Caroline, is spending more time online and less time with the kids. When he tries to come into their bedroom, she'll shove him out and dodge questions about what she was doing.

This leads to heartbreaking revelations by her kids, who feel that she doesn't care as much about them as she does SL. Caroline ends up risking everything to meet her lover, who lives on another continent! Will she come to her senses and realize that she has a family at home? You'll just have to watch this sad tale to find out.

[Thanks, Fenlock!]

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Tags: bbc, caroline, documentary, lee, linden-lab, machinima, second-life, sl, virtual-adultery-and-cyberspace-love, wonderland

Reader Comments (2)

This is an amazing story if true.

It adds credence to the notion that these spaces are far more real to many people than has been acknowledged.

People need to come and play EVE online!

Compared to the universe of EVE, RL is a nice, caring, nurturing environment that they will dive into head first to escape the brutality and an ever-so-enticing world of the best space/sci-fi MMO to date.

Although, there is a possibility that with introduction of Ambulation( fancy nice bodies for ladies and more than a few men to prance around in), EVE may just become a friendlier place. Let us all cross our fingers and hope that never actually happens. Not Ambulation, which we all await, but we like the dark universe of EVE. We love it just the way it is.