Second Life is an awesome place where you can unleash your creativity after it was repressed in childhood, deal with your emotional pains and trauma from failed relationships, learn useful skills to enrich your existence, and do a lot of badass stuff that simply isn't possible in the "real world". Apparently, you can even make money. Some make a living. A big living, which isn't just about money, but happiness too. Sound too good to be true? It's not. I'm living the dream, and so can you.
Friendly greetings! I'm Torley. I'm not just a member — as we call ourselves, Residents — I also work for the company that made Second Life, Linden Lab. But we're not the only makers. Second Life is severely prone to what geeks call "user-created content", which is another way of saying: you create the world you live in. Whether it's outfitting your avatar (the virtual version of you) in stylin' threads, shooting the shittake with newfound friends, landscaping a tropical resort, or as I've done, making a giant watermelon for a house, it's all possible here.
I hope you've enjoyed this advertisement. The pretty pictures are all true, aside from a touch of simulated TV distortion. If you go frame by frame, yup, that's ALL stuff you can do inworld. So our lawyers don't take a big pink sneaker to my ass, I gotta disclaim the ad's not official. I made it because I felt motivated. It happens often. And there aren't actually "four easy payments" — Basic accounts are FREE, and you can find out about the benefits of Premium accounts @ http://secondlife.com/join , so don't hesitate. We're a business, yet with someone like me working for the company, what does that tell you? I'm just a lively guy who loves having a fun time in Second Life, and I hope you will too. And by the way, I make video tutorials, so if you'd like to learn Second Life in a fun & fast way, check 'em out.
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Second Life looks good and keeps getting better, but I wonder how it will interact with Web 2.0 and the new changes being developed by Yahoo and Google. Would it be possible to combine these in such a way that the virtual life becomes more realistically social?
Reminds me somehow of that (was it?) Captain Morgan's ad where the boyfriend's in the bar and the whole bar joins in pretending it's a tv in the background.
"Timmy tried to cook a turkey in the dishwasher!" *canned laughter*
@Gilbee: There exists many possibilities, in incremental waves. Already, there are numerous gateway services like SL< ->Twitter ones. I suppose some of what you want to know would depend on specifics! Eventually, I think most people won't care so much or perceive great divides between virtual worlds, Web 2.0 sites and other experiences — they'll simply want it to work together.
@Amphithetre: I haven't seen that one, but what cracks me up is the parody of Captain Morgan mixed with Jack Sparrow in the Epic Movie parody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kum2woR1Kqg