Second Life News & Events & Guides

I have been visiting Second Life on and off for three years and it is what you make of it, like anything else. I do not consider myself to be a weirdo and I am certainly not looking for cheap thrills or an extra-marital affair. I have SL friends who I regularly chat with and they range from university professors to gardeners and from teachers to artists. A wide social mix of people visit Second Life, which is certainly the best virtual world without a shadow of a doubt. As a building tool Second Life is terrific eg: I designed a kitchen extension online that you can walk around as opposed to paying an architect a fortune to draw it for me. It is not for everybody but to write it off now would be incredibly premature. 

Second Life is STILL huge... any search on the web will prove that due to the reams of blogs, articles and content generated by the metaverse. The problem is it faced a lot of negative press, which detracted from the actual user experience. It's not all about geeks and perverts - many people use Second life as a way to perform their music in a live environment. It's also a great outlet for creators, I know of many people who make living wages from the items they sell in-world. That said, it's not all about money, it's all about user experience. I've made lots of new friends and learned new technical skills from my time in world. People who want to try it should research it first and assess their expectations - sure you can use it as a social networking tool, but you have to build up that network first of all unless you already have friends in world. Basically,(Second life linden) if you go into the metaverse with no clear ambitions then you are going to struggle, but if you want to use Second Life as a creative outlet then you'll find it a very rewarding one indeed.