Comments on: Why Second Life CAN be taken seriously

By: Weirdharold

Weirdharold — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:32:07 +0000

Kelly, You are more than welcome for the link. I am hoping you will simply view Second Life with an open mind, and as you probably do with most things… look for the good aspects as well as the bad.

I also wrote a post just for you located at http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/studies-on-importance-of-second-life-continues-to-grow/413/

We are very glad you came by to visit.

By: TD Goodliffe

TD Goodliffe — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:32:19 +0000

I met and talked to Nathan at Search Champs in 2006 and this perspective is a bit suprising coming from him. I wonder if he’s being too heavily influenced by Valleyrag. I’d be curious to find out more of what his individual reporting in Second Life has been like. What’s his direct experience because we all have different experiences in SL.

I’ve had my business up for nearly a year now and haven’t experienced the problems Nathan wrote that are making Second Life something that can’t be taken seriously. The worst problem I’ve experienced has bee neighboring properties having ugly For Sale signs, but not putting up offensive images or objects. I’ve had some literring problems (fire objects) but by setting third party objects to be returned to inventory they don’t stay up.

I’d be more apt to agree with Nathan on SL uptime concerns and the impact on serious business rather than on the things he cites in his post and curiously enough he doesn’t mention that.

If you happen to read this post, Nathan, maybe you can let us know how much time you’ve actually spent inside Second Life yourself? Did you setup your own business there and have griefing problems? If you want somebody to interview who has had a business in Second Life for more than six months, hit me up and I’ll be more than happy to give you the good, bad and ugly

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:03:47 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for sending me the link of this article, it actually does give an insight in how people experience Second life and why it CAN be useful. It intrigues me that you mention SL as an opportunity to express oneself online,and by doing so, actually even develop important skills to express these thoughts in real life. If I’m right, what you are saying is that exploring our online identity (and life in general, online) CAN have positive effects on our communication and expressing skills in real life? Interesting thought…

By: Weirdharold

Weirdharold — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:14:02 +0000

Great work Caliandris… well written, interesting, and thought provoking. I really love your style and am envious of your abilities!

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Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:07:09 +0000

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