So last night I received an email notifying me that I had been accepted into the Home beta......after the crickets stopped chirping I carried on with my business. This morning I decide to fire it up and see what this unnecessary response to Xbox LIVE is. So here I am, home sweet home - "Let's create my character". Boring. Now I am in my apartment, I can look out the window, I can change the wallpaper, but not with anything from my own collection, just presets which makes it look pretty generic. So much for customizing my own space. Now I see a chair! I can move it and sit in it!!!!! 73 seconds after being placed into my apartment I want to leave, so I do. Now I am in the Central Plaza and I see lots of other people, none of them are my friends and none of them ever will be because that is lame. Cyber-friendship is lame. Ooooooo! I see a mall, let's go inside. There is a clothing store, a furniture store and neither of them have anything in them. While I look around the mall I see many losers, dancing, talking and just standing around, many of the latter as "blown away" as I am with the experience. I leave, never to return. Now it's off to the bowling alley! I'll admit, this portion is neat, but I didn't really care for the arcade games they had and it sucks that you have to actually wait till someone is done using it. So I immediately left. Never to return. Now I visit the music dealy, whatever it is and see a whole bunch of nerds/losers dancing to terrible music. I go to the menu selection spot and I am able to choose between 3 songs, all of which suck. I wish I could stream my own music and force everyone to listen to what I want. I leave. Off to the Home Theater. Quickly walk around, get a seat and wait.........for............the.............SOCOM Confrontation trailer. As I leave I wonder what the whole point of this is, sadly an answer is never found. I head back to my apartment to cry, but there is no emoticon for crying. But there is a PS button on my controller and when I hold it down for a few seconds I get a nifty message called "Turn Off System", which I happily choose. Now the mystery of what Home is or isn't is finally over.