Progress Report (1)

  Our finial project is about the romantic relationship in SL. As we are in love in real life, we also can develop affection in SL through the activities and ceremonies, such as dating, flirting, having candlelight dinner, holding a splendid wedding and so on. But do people have the responsibility to treat their relationship in SL honestly and loyally just like in real life? It's a problem about morality to all of us now. Internet has become a very important part in our lives that we use it to interact with others, escape from daily struggles and experience things we don't dare to do in real life. However, if people already have had a relationship in actual world, are their affections in virtual world adulteries? Do people make their avatars more charming than they really are and fabricate the glorious events about them to increase the opportunities to have intimate relationships immoral? In my opinion, having an affair or tell something unreal in SL still count as cheating. Participation in virtual world doesn't excuse us from living in reality, and all the rules for a successful relationship apply whether we are online or not.
  So this time we want to conduct a survey that do people treat their relationship in SL as serious as in real life and is there any ethical dilemma in it. We have already searched for some romantic spots, such as Japan Tempura Island, The Lost Gardens of Apollo, Midnight Reflections and so forth. That couples can dance, walk around and enjoy their private moments in these beautiful places. Therefore, we decide to go to these locations respectively and have interviews with the potential couples there. But at first we have to work out our questionnaire and start the survey as soon as possible. Later, we would discuss our progress report and revise the questions every week.
  Fortunately we have made friendship with some foreign couples from different countries already, so that we can analyze whether their background, education, status, nation and gender would affect the result of our survey. At last, we would not only try to explain the possible reasons for the similarities and differences attained from this study, but also create a chart to make the consequence more clearly.