I created a Second Life account initially because the School of Library and Information Science at SJSU has an island there, and I thought I'd better check it out. It is a vast, confusing world, and I still haven't really figured it out. Moving around is okay, but I don't get the money thing. There are supposed to be money trees that you can use to get some Linden dollars within the first 30 days of your membership; after that time, if you want money you either have to come up with a good or service you can sell to other users, or you have to pay real world dollars and have them converted. I'm not sure why I'd want to do that, so I haven't yet.
Every time I go to the SJSU SLIS island, there isn't anyone else there. I've only actually ever talked to another Second Life user once, as a matter of fact. When I first signed up, and was putzing around on Orientation Island (the first stop, where you learn to navigate and such). A person bumped right into me, and was making these strange little waving motions with his arms. I thought, "what's wrong with this freak?" and tried to move away. He followed, doing that weird little arm-waving thing. After a minute, I realized there were words appearing in the bottom left portion of my screen. He was typing! Oooohhh!
All in all, I'm not sold. Maybe I read Snow Crash one too many times, but Second Life just seems like a glorified version of the Sims.
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So long as no one named Hiro Protagonist tries to deliver any pizza, I think we're safe.
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