3D Worlds and Socialising on the Internet

The 3D chat room environment I chose was habbo hotel. Firstly I registered and designed my little made up character and got chatting. There are a range of different places in habbo hotel to chat, such as, party rooms, dating rooms, trading rooms, game rooms, the pool etc. I can definately tell that majority of the users are young, ranging from 10 - 16 years old. I found this out because people were telling eachother their ages and the content of the conversation was definately immature. Personally I rather talk to my friends and only the people I know on msn messenger for several reasons. Firstly, I know exactly who I'm talking to, we can send songs, files to one another and thirdly, it's realistic! However if I was young, naive and bored habbo hotel would be a fun place to play games, meet new people and hide behind a fictional character. The 3D aspect of habbo hotel might help make chatting more exciting for younger people but for me it was actually tedious going on to the site. Ultimately if you want to simply talk to a friend in a personal atmosphere then instant messenger is the way to go, but if you want to talk to people you don't know, play games and interact more then the 3D chat world is best for you.