Computer software digital platforms for use in building online 3D virtual environments in which users create and interact within virtual worlds for the purposes of connecting to college education, academia, and culture, featuring real time interaction by voice, text, and avatar-based communications for transmission of electronic messages among computer users, chat rooms, electronic bulletin boards, and activities concerning topics of general interest, content sharing in the form of data, photographs, videos, digital contents and images; computer software used for providing multi-user access to online 3D virtual environments, namely creating, manipulating and participating in 3D virtual environments; computer software featuring online forums for transmission of messages among computer users concerning virtual worlds and social networking; computer software for creating customized avatars and downloading such avatars to personal computers and mobile devices; downloadable computer software for use in instant messaging and online chat; downloadable computer software for use in customizing graphical appearances for use-generated personalized web pages; computer software used to create, customize, and transmit digital characters and avatar applications; computer software used for customized on-line web pages featuring user-defined information, which includes search engines for searching indices and databases of websites and computer networks; computer software for use in designing and developing virtual worlds; computer software for use in creating, editing and sharing virtual reality content and online community environments featuring digital avatars, online journals namely blogs featuring customizable avatars; Internet based social networking in a specific group environment, namely universities, hosting online 3D virtual environments that feature a wide variety of user-defined subject matter; design and development