Do Second Life’ers have a real life?

by on April 2, 2006

Halley Suitt asks an interesting question: "do the people who are all excited about Second Life actually have a first life, or any life at all?"

Well, you gotta have money from your first life, that's for sure. Means you either have a nice inheritance you're spending or you have a job of some kind. My son spent $35 in a week and is asking for more.

Um, no, Patrick, you can go outside and play for a while. Or else Halley will come to your house and drag you out by your ears! :-)

  • warren
    you're supposed to make up what you spend by making stuff and selling it.

    second life has an entire programming language built into it - you can do almost anything with it (much more than building barbie doll-type houses and stuff). maybe it'd be a good way to get your son interested in programming?
  • Yup, he's getting a lot more interested in such stuff now because of Second Life.
  • Why do you need a first life if you can watch (user generated) TV in SL? With friends that look like little furry rabbits:

    Video: http://www.psfk.com/2006/04/watching_live_u.html
  • The Sage
    Funny, hardcore SL people ask that of ourselves. For many of us this is the time we don't watch television anymore. SL's a damn better use of time than watching television, its sociable, interactive, and allows creative individuals to express themselves. Some even make a living at it and use it as an extension of their RL enterprises. There are fashion designers that test out their designs in SL before RL. There are professors who use it to teach math. There are people who use it as a simulator for real-world emergency exercises as an alternative to more expensive virtual world systems (e.g. MIT's CAVE system).
  • FritzMeaning
    Odd times. Based on recent conversations and observations I've had about SL is that it is becoming very cult-ish. Good or bad? That's for you to decide. I just remember hearing people speaking about SL at the GDC like it was the 3rd coming of EST.
  • Fritz: heh, there's a lot of truth in that.
  • Christopher Coulter
    Well, at least something to keep the riff-raff geeky refuse offa the blogs; caged up in a zoo community where they pose no danger to outsiders.
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