I also find it somewhat creepy that you could be interacting with god knows who – you might think it’s IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, but in reality (First Life to you)……

Mr Business Golf: “Thank goodness someone is exposing the absurdity of Second Life…”

It’s absurd if you become so addicted to SL that it *becomes* your life. But if you maintain a healthy balance with “real life”, I don’t see that there’s a problem. I enjoy using SL myself… but I also go outside, regularly walk and cycle in our local woods, meet friends down the pub, have dancing lessons, play the guitar in a local group, etc etc.

And that applies to sexuality as well, in Holland more folks are getting off on the web than really getting to feel anyone. Many of the younger guys have never held a girl’s hand. All that is gone. These are damaging to a society. Extremely damaging. These people grow up to become frustrated and confused adults.

It is so pathetic, don’t you think?

Regards,
Roger Moorgate, PhD
Admin, The Reproductive Cloning Network
http://www.reproductivecloning.net

Hilarious indeed. It’s a rather surprising response.

“This is an interesting bit of follow-up news that I thought might interest you guys. I don’t know if it’s common for Linden to do this, but I thought it was classy.

Today I awoke from my nap to a letter (via the comments on the announcement) from Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life. ‘Ah, well’, I though, ‘here come the lawyers’. But no. To their enormous credit, they sent me what I can only describe as a ‘proceed and permitted’ (instead of ‘cease and desist’) letter. Here’s an excerpt:

“We do not believe that reasonable people would argue as to whether the website located at http://www.getafirstlife.com/ constitutes parody – it clearly is. Linden Lab is well known among its customers and in the general business community as a company with enlightened and well-informed views regarding intellectual property rights, including the fair use doctrine, open source licensing, and other principles that support creativity and self-expression. We know parody when we see it.”

Hilarious. “

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

If only, in my First Life, it was that easy to sprout a pair of wings and fly, dance like I have a sense of rythym, have a plush apartment with a view of the sea from the balcony or be healty, slim, pretty and have men (or/and sometimes women) tell me so.

Please let me have my escapism…… it helps me deal with bad weather, pollution, poverty and tedious days of labour in the service industries.

Isa

I’m getting quite anxious with all the hype about SL that I was beginning to think I’d need to get one.

Phew.

You have made me see sense.

doom
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