http://www.secondlife.com
Not happy with your current life? Well... just hop on over to secondlife.com and be whoever/whatever you want. Fly, breath underwater, be young and buff, the sky's the limit. Tom could even have a full head of hair!
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 1,409,203 people from around the globe.
Computer Talk listener Nancy reports she attends Greatful Dead concerts, sells homemade wings, and meets interesting people.
Enter at your own risk. Some content my be offensive and you will probably waste way too much time once you start.
JG (still in my first life)
3 comments:
Ahh I found the Blog! Yeah, you can waste a lot of time in Second Life, but you'll only be bored if you LET yourself be bored!
SL is sort of like what you get when a city grows too big, only this is a fantasy land, and as a result you get the oddest urban sprawl ever! Floating castles soar over modern skyscrapers and futuristic office buildings that stand next to haunted graveyards and hanging flower gardens. There are stores everywhere, offering a dizzying array of items, clothing, shoes, cellphones, jewelry, cars, houses, plants, furniture, Avatars, and more.
And then there are the people in Second Life: The avatars. An avatar is your representative in the SL virtual world and begins as a somewhat generic human that you can customize in a variety of ways to make it unique. There is basic clothing and hair that is part of the avatar package, and then there is add-on objects (like high heeled shoes, wings, hair, glasses, etc. Avatar (AV) also refers to all the different looks you can apply to your avatar (like a costume) You can change between different looks as you desire and be almost anything. I sometimes wear a mechanical bird AV, and recently bought a dragon AV.I've seen Batman, Homer simpson, Snoopy and Woodstock, werewolves, unicorns, harpies, ice cream cones, Darth Vader and stormtroopers, Alien Queens,
Oh, and LOTS of variations on humans: pale skin, dark skin, tattoos, armour, barbarians, Hi tech jumpsuits, every color and style of big hair and small, mohawks and ponytails even bald. and a zillion variations in between. All of these things are created by the users IN Second life, expressions of creativity and whimsy that are just amazing to see, sometimes
Awesome! Thanks for the SL insight. I just may visit soon.
JG
Hiyas, It's Nancy, from the call-in on Second Life, I though I'd come back and give you an update. (grin)
You had asked me about the commercialization of SL and I hadn't seen much of it at that time. But I sure have now!I've seen several intrusions of 'commercial garbage'.
I've seen billboards proclaiming ""make lindens by answering surveys!"" and when I investigated, sure enough, they lead you to a website where you have to answer upmteen billion questions, and navigate a tricky web of pages to get your 'prize'. Incindentally, you give them your email address, and permission to spam you with lots of junkmail.
Next to an area I was in, I saw a bunch of shapes on the ground (and a few 'herb' plants) It seems that you buy a copy of the object from the object, then place it next to the orginal to 'initialize' for the 'upline' then you take your item, and place it somewhere else, where people will buy copies of it sending some of the money to the original person YOU bought the object from (your'upline') as well as to you, and then THOSE people initialize their shapes off of YOURS, and then go put them somewhere... (yadda yadda)
Creepy shades of Amway and Quixtar!
OH, did I mention that these items were shaped like pyramids?
I have also now seen a chain letter (more than once) where people give you a notecard where it explains that if you pay the giver 10L$ you will get the second notecard which has a list of 9 people's names, send each of these peopl 10L$ Then put your name at the bottom of the list and erase the top name. and now, find 4 people to buy this notecard from you (by spamming a bunch of people with the first notecard - that's what happened to me)
(((SIGH)))) and this used to be such a nice neighborhood..
Nancy
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