Living a dual life, no more SPY-ish.

Yes thats true. One way or the other about 1/3rd of the world onine population or lets say netizens have started living a dual life. They create their own avatars which is totally or atleast 67% ifferent from themselves in the real world. How is it possible? Well, the answers are spread all over the internet. Websites like Facebook (an american social networking site), MySpace (an undertaking of News Corp.),theLectureNotes, Friendster, Bebo etc are the medium. People register on these sites create what they think would have a magnetic effect on others and voila! a new Human being (virtual ofcourse!) is born.
Recently, Gaia Online made it to the news as one of the platforms for creating an online avatars by members. They can live a different life online, buy credits upgrade their life and also have families online. It was said that the world has become a global village but I would say World has become an online micro village in Kilobytes!
Again, the other day I was browsing around, digging the vast space of information on the internet until I hit an all new web service, meant only for students in the UK (it says only in the Uk but will expand organically). It was none other than theLectureNotes.com the membership is by invitation only whic I personally think is good so as to keep unwanted faces out of its campus. Yes campus! the web service has three main objectives i.e. Share lecture notes from universities around the UK, Refer them from different universities Network with students from different universities all in all its a other campusg created online -- a virtual avatar of the whole educational campus. The sites' BETA version will be launched on 2nd September 2006. On researching a bit on this website I dug up some profiles and communities which might prove useful some day or the other.They are:
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=18479801 ( a community for theLectureNotes.com)
http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=11865704979664101418 (the creator!)

I'll keep updating the link if I come across some more profiles or communities.

But to be honest I think that this web service has got some true potential! So check it out.