[Press] Camp GK Featured in Toronto Star
Today's issue of the Toronto Star features one of the first articles on the teen grid of Second Life. To our delight, not only did they write about the camp, but they interviewed a local teen who just happened to be one of our campers!
James Young-Dahr spent his summer in Second Life at a camp, of sorts. Global Kids, a non-profit organization based out of New York, held a summer camp in the site that raised awareness of issues like the genocide in Darfur and teen sex slave trafficking."It was pretty amazing," the 14-year-old Young-Dahr says, adding that he's been on Second Life for about a year. "I just like the creativity (on the site). You can create what you want and do what you want."
Young-Dahr says he has more friends on Second Life than he does in real life, finding that those in the virtual world are easier to meet. "It's because people are friendlier. They don't judge people as much as they do in real life because it's the avatar they're looking at, not the real person. You can tell their personality better by the way they type and what they say."
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