YoVille vs. Second Life

On Facebook, there is a miniature virtual world called YoVille that fairly resembles Second Life. In YoVille the avatars are very short with heads larger than their bodies. The avatars are very unrealistic, but I still play YoVille religiously. I am very addicted to YoVille, beacause it is very simple to understand, unlike Second Life. Second Life, I find, is much more complicated than YoVille, but definitely more sophisticated than it.

In YoVille, you are able create an avatar and dress it just like in Second Life, but in YoVille you are automatically given and apartment to decorate and use. This differs from Second Life, in which you need to purchase land if you want to build or decorate anything and you pay with real money. In YoVille, you are allotted two hundred coins initially to purchase furniture and decorations for you apartment. There are many shops were you can buy food, clothing and flowers because YoVille is its own little town. Once you run out of coins, though you can go to work and earn more. You can buy YoVille dollars with real money if you wish, but you don't have to. You can also earn coins by visiting your friends that are members too. Second Life does not allow you to earn Linden dollars and instead you have to pay real cash for them.

Second Life and YoVille are complete opposites. Second Life is much more realistic than YoVille, and much more advanced. There are also nowhere near as many avatars in YoVille as there is in Second Life, but to me YoVille is more fun to me. It is much more simplistic and sometimes simpler virtual worlds are better.