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The first ever Muslim virtual world has launched today, following in the footsteps of popular online communities such as Second Life.

Called Muxlim Pal, it allows users to look after a cartoon avatar or 'pal' who can move around the world, which promotes Islamic culture.

Users can buy gift such as tea sets with online currency to give to their friends and pals can also go to prayer rooms and

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10931... 

With a vibrant user community of 30,000 users, Sunbelt Software, a company developing anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-adware, and firewalling software, decided that they should have a virtual presence in Second Life as well. Sunbelt's users are already familiar with online communities, and Second Life is yet another environment for them.

I don't get the "buzz" about Secondlife.I can see the value & attraction in extending your network through the variety of online communities however I think that interacting with other people through the medium of an online virtual world populated of badly rendered versions of people's dream-persona is just plain sad...