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Aeolienne

Does anyone here use Second Life?

I'm being urged by a recent acquaintance on an online dating forum to sign up for Second Life, which he describes thus:
Quote:
Go to http://www.secondlife.com and download the software client.

This is a piece of software that sits on your desktop and connects to the Second Life servers.

The usual protocol is to sign up for an avatar - you can choose the first name but not the surname but you can keep polling your choices until you find a surname you prefer.

Once your avatar is registered and you have downloaded the software client you can connect to Second Life if your computer is powerful enough.

I wouldn't recommend staying too long on the orientation island because it has been known to be frequented by quite dodgy people...

My island is rarely visited by anyone so perfect for training and uninterrupted conversations and conferences etc. To get to that you need a
SLURL http://slurl.com/secondlife/Learn4Life/89/215/29 - that, once the software is installed on your machine, will bring you straight to the Island training centre. Second Life is quite a large learning curve initially and then it tapers off. It has been shown to be quite a good medium of people with Asperger's to communicate with/in.


My initial reaction was concern that downloading all this software would interfere with all the other applications on my computer. Am I being Luddite?
Brownbear

Turn off the PC and go to the pub is my advice, and enjoy your First Life.
Ixy

I'm with brownbear, it all seems a bit weird to me and conjurs up an image of humans being plugged into a computer at birth, to live out our lives on them. machines could feed us our sustenance pills and clear up the minimal excretions....maybe genetic engineering would negate the need for food and...the results? Confused doesn't appeal!
Barefoot Andrew

What they said. The word "bargepole" springs to mind Wink
A.
Calli

Just seen this post whilst scanning the IT section for Google Wavers...

Second Life has any academic functions and yes it has to be said orientation island is much akin to a freshers week


Confused

Wouldn't be quite so quick to write it off though - there are many interesting 'hubs' on there. The one recommendation I would make ( aside from a decent spellcheck) is to visit the main library - can give long boring list of srls but basic search works fine. Oh and the Dresden Museum is amazing.

It is a brilliant resource for language learning - try teleporting to Red Square and listening in lol

Then again in the French language learning section I was inappropriately accosted by a rabid 6ft fluffy apparition...or was that Saturday night?

Apologies - celebrating three lots of very good news Embarassed
MarkS

Re: Does anyone here use Second Life?

Aeolienne wrote:
I'm being urged by a recent acquaintance on an online dating forum to sign up for Second Life, which he describes thus:
Quote:
Go to http://www.secondlife.com and download the software client.

This is a piece of software that sits on your desktop and connects to the Second Life servers.

The usual protocol is to sign up for an avatar - you can choose the first name but not the surname but you can keep polling your choices until you find a surname you prefer.

Once your avatar is registered and you have downloaded the software client you can connect to Second Life if your computer is powerful enough.

I wouldn't recommend staying too long on the orientation island because it has been known to be frequented by quite dodgy people...

My island is rarely visited by anyone so perfect for training and uninterrupted conversations and conferences etc. To get to that you need a
SLURL http://slurl.com/secondlife/Learn4Life/89/215/29 - that, once the software is installed on your machine, will bring you straight to the Island training centre. Second Life is quite a large learning curve initially and then it tapers off. It has been shown to be quite a good medium of people with Asperger's to communicate with/in.


My initial reaction was concern that downloading all this software would interfere with all the other applications on my computer. Am I being Luddite?



It is with some regret that I must inform you that you have fallen for an online marketing bot.

'He' may have seemed like a nice bloke when you first swapped messages, but the unfortunate reality is no more than a bunch of ephemeral cpu cycles and a spandex clad pink rabbit avatar.
Mary-Jane

Brownbear wrote:
Turn off the PC and go to the pub is my advice, and enjoy your First Life.


Not 'arf.
Hairyloon

I had a little play with it once.
Quite disturbing if you're disturbed by that kind of thing. Harmless fun if you're not.

Couldn't really see the point myself... well I can see at least one point: some people take it so seriously that they will pay real money for virtual artefacts.
If you're any good at making virtual artefacts, you can probably make fairly good money at it.
Chez

What Mr Loon said. I had a look at it a few months back and it seemed as if you had to sort of give up your first life in order to get to grips with it properly ... and since I spend waaaaay too much time online already ...
James

I heard on radio 4 a while ago that the amount of energy needed to run all the second life servers, devided by the average logged in members of second life , is equal to the energy requirements of an adult in the developing world.

Something seems a bit wrong to me that a fake life we're playing takes as much energy as a real life in a less developed country.
Nick

And it'd be worse on servers that have less users, presumably, as the amount of power would be similar.
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