online communication in pigg world

Today I want to introduce my favorite online communication platform to you.
The platform is called PIGG.
PIGG is a japanese company Ameba's social network which is as a kind of virtual world like second life.
But something is different between pigg and second life.
Firstly, pigg is a web-based game which not requires you to install anything.
You can just open the web in the browser and you can start playing it.
Secondly, the style of visual is different.
Pigg is more cute and not really based on reality.(That may represent the Japanese culture of cute.)

My room and avatar :D

Few reasons can explain why I am addicted to the game.
Firstly, I love the mini games in Pigg.
Pigg has many scene, for example Shibuya, New York and even space, my favorite scene is the casino. In the scene, you can really gamble(of course not using real money). I love to play black jack and slot machine there.
Not only gaining virtual money, pigg always offer events which will give presents (of course are for the avatar) to you when you win certain amount of money. The lovely and interesting present really attracts me a lot.

 Casino yeah-------!

Secondly, I love to chat with people in there.
Pigg has a funtion called "community". As the name said, it offers you a chance to join the community in the pigg world. You can really build friendship with Japanese with the function. I joined a community called 放送部 which are formed by people who enjoy watching live in a Japanese video website - niconico. It one hand can enhance my Japanese. On the other hand, it could let me have some new friends from Japan.


Finally, here is a video of demonstrating how to play pigg. Hope you enjoy it.

Attention?

In Hong Kong, attention is important to an artists, to a politicians and a company. As it can generate wealth and gold in the fast changing world. They must keep on having news or movement in order to make people remember them.

But now we ordinary people also tried to get attention as well.

With the pop-up of facebook and twitter or other social network, we tried to have more attention.

Let me use a friend as an example. He is a year 3 boy and I know him in last summer holiday. He is an optimistic  person and seems that he would not be sad even his gpa is lower than 2. I added his facebook for a while and one day he typed a really touching poem which is just saying "I am really lonely". But many friends liked his post. I asked him why to post something that didn't match you. He said" I need to "chok" like!" (chok means to have a little cheat in this time...) I don't understand what it means for but I did see he got more attention from his "goddess".

Of course, we will have actual sharing in facebook or twitter. But we can hardly distinguish what others want. Teenagers like to have attention from friends. It is usual for them to have a mind that wanting to become the center of their social network. Facebook gave them a chance and I think that can explain why my friends would like to "chok" for like.

ya---! I got 17 likes! Attention draw?

Another attention drawing example will be mini blogs like twitter and plurk. But this time, the more follower you got, the more attention you have. You might think fans or followers mean nothing. But you can deny that more fans you got, more posts you will post.
see? maybe more fans you got,more you post!

But maybe you will become Narcissistic. To prevent it, let's do a test!

It's my sharing:)