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Aside from people noticing that small problem, current economic conditions alone, both in RL and SL, have caused many people to abandon their virtual land. This, in fact is how the first SL Millionaire (that's millionaire in RL money) Anshe Chung...
Any activity that you can do in both RL and in a Virtual World is fair game. I feel as if I should preface this with a warning label: Potential Controversy Ahead. But then I realized I'd have to put that on almost every column, and then I'd have to...
From ultra tall, very attenuated model figures that are similar to model drawings (ten heads high), to furry shapes, to very hippy, or very busty or very muscular or all of those, fat, short, and everything in between, to people who try to mimic...
The best possible day for me in SL is one where I don't have to talk to anyone, so I can just work quietly by myself (OK, that's my best possible day in RL too). It is within *that* document that a massive volume of information was discovered...
I just use different media in which to project it, and my RL and SL selves are fully linked. Last Friday afternoon, I had a short exchange on Twitter with Ciaran Laval, in which I mentioned I wasn't writing a column because it had been a slow news...
This was not embraced warmly by the Second Life resident community (to say the least), and for some reason, the Lab simply refused to accept that SL residents would never warm to the notion of mixing SL/RL in large numbers.
It's a place where they can build one of their choosing, which may not only have nothing to do with their RL one, but one that would be decidedly unwelcome in their RL, or perhaps even simply impossible.
In the digital world, there's also an additional potential for damage when information is linked, forming a chain that can lead people to RL banking information. That's billions of real, not virtual dollars, mind you.
Several people have suggested a "registration system" of sorts for merchants, like an additional verification system, but this has been met with a mixed response, as many people don't want to compromise their RL privacy and/or don't believe that...
A bold statement, by a true blackhat with a RL background. He's smart, creative and charismatic. He speaks with an infectious fervor that spreads amongst people who listen to him. It's difficult not to like him.
But if one user posts real life info on alt A, and alt B says "my RL is private", they debate that. Providing RL info and then complaining about it is an invalid point. People don't want other people to connect the dots from their avatar to their...
So if we're all meant to be good little muppets, this means you're supposed to be linking your RL information with your SL stuff. People are far more likely to complain about bad service than they are to praise good service.
So much so that the amount of money that even breeder/resellers were making was many times enough to replace a decent full time RL job (I know more than one person who did it. Despite estimates that virtual goods will become a $10 billion industry...
So, let's say for example you have a RL business with a SL presence. Happy 2011, gang! I hope everyone had a terrific break and a wonderful new year. It seems like it's back to business time and the past two weeks have not been idle in the wacky...
This is one of the ways that SL is superior to RL. Content creators must understand that there is a capital investment that must be addressed here- and that is one of RL computer hardware, and one of time, in order to learn how to maximize...
This clause put SL itself in direct opposition to Facebook as up until that point, Second Life was something that could be be completely separate from your RL existence, and nowhere was that more apparent than in your name.
Also (which you can see in that screencap up there), notice how your SL profile and your RL profile are now together, where in v1 they are separate tabs entirely. It points to an integration between RL and SL that was not present before.
All of this, and I haven't touched 'real life' (RL) yet, but I want to be *really* clear to everyone that when I say that my SL is mostly a job, I mean it. I'm a little busy, and let's be honest, I'm not extroverted enough to make socialization...
For most other platforms, you can use RL money to buy game money. Also, it's a way to make up for the lack of the physical presence of your loved ones (I heard a story recently about a military serviceperson who comes into SL whenever he can to...
For the next two weeks, SL Virtuatect and RL designer, Avril Korman, will continue sharing her thoughts on Second Life and human behavior in virtual worlds (read her first installment, "Virtuatecture in Second Life: What Makes a House a House?
