Realtalk though…holy penis, I never thought anyone would drink the kool-aid so thoroughly. You describe yourself as a “Second Life evangelist”…so is that basically code for “payrolled Linden Lab spin doctor”, because holy crap…mass amounts of cognitive dissonance here.

Realtalk though…holy penis, I never thought anyone would drink the kool-aid so thoroughly. You describe yourself as a “Second Life evangelist”…so is that basically code for “payrolled Linden Lab spin doctor”, because holy crap…mass amounts of cognitive dissonance here.

If your point is, Facebook is way easier to use than Second Life, sure, you’re right again. Even though there are easier social networking tools out there (Twitter comes to mind ), Facebook is way easier than Second Life… and will be… ever.

It’s like saying “IRC is easier than Plurk”. Oh yes! But just because IRC is easier to use, it doesn’t mean that the number of Plurk users is not growing…

If you mean that none of your friends have embraced Web 3.0, and you feel alone out there, while everybody you know are happily embracing the last remains of innovation on Web 2.0… well, sure. It’s always hard to start something from scratch. Guess what, all my contacts on Facebook, without a single exception, are on Second Life! But they’re just a small part of out of the 1000+ contacts I’ve got in SL… not everyone has a Facebook account. Yet

What does that “prove”? That both you and I are anomalies, anedoctal evidence, and outside the norm — so you can’t base conclusions on either of us. That’s why we have specialists for doing metrics, which will carefully trim out the extreme cases which don’t really “fit” the data.

As for “SL is rarely fun”, I’m sure it is, if your idea of entertainment is: “someone entertain me, or else I’ll get bored”. SL is for people who think the opposite way, ie. “entertainment is what I do to have fun”.

“A failing software company with a rapidly stagnating userbase using a new performance metric in order to insist their product is still relavent? Fascinating. Tell me more.”

Sure, the company with the new performance metric is Nielsen, and they aren’t either stagnating, failing, or even a software company — they’re a market research company

Oh, you meant that LL is a “failing software company”…. right. You know, I’ve heard of three companies that same old story over and over again, it’s not so fun any more: Microsoft, Apple, and Linden Lab. They all have “failed to fail” and are still around, in spite of all doomsday predictions.

If your point is, Facebook is way easier to use than Second Life, sure, you’re right again. Even though there are easier social networking tools out there (Twitter comes to mind ), Facebook is way easier than Second Life… and will be… ever.

It’s like saying “IRC is easier than Plurk”. Oh yes! But just because IRC is easier to use, it doesn’t mean that the number of Plurk users is not growing…

If you mean that none of your friends have embraced Web 3.0, and you feel alone out there, while everybody you know are happily embracing the last remains of innovation on Web 2.0… well, sure. It’s always hard to start something from scratch. Guess what, all my contacts on Facebook, without a single exception, are on Second Life! But they’re just a small part of out of the 1000+ contacts I’ve got in SL… not everyone has a Facebook account. Yet

What does that “prove”? That both you and I are anomalies, anedoctal evidence, and outside the norm — so you can’t base conclusions on either of us. That’s why we have specialists for doing metrics, which will carefully trim out the extreme cases which don’t really “fit” the data.

As for “SL is rarely fun”, I’m sure it is, if your idea of entertainment is: “someone entertain me, or else I’ll get bored”. SL is for people who think the opposite way, ie. “entertainment is what I do to have fun”.

“A failing software company with a rapidly stagnating userbase using a new performance metric in order to insist their product is still relavent? Fascinating. Tell me more.”

Sure, the company with the new performance metric is Nielsen, and they aren’t either stagnating, failing, or even a software company — they’re a market research company

Oh, you meant that LL is a “failing software company”…. right. You know, I’ve heard of three companies that same old story over and over again, it’s not so fun any more: Microsoft, Apple, and Linden Lab. They all have “failed to fail” and are still around, in spite of all doomsday predictions.

So it’s like this…all my friends are on Facebook. All of them. I don’t need a seperate piece of software to use Facebook–I just use Firefox, and I can access this social media mini-portal. Second Life requires a seperate client, is often either laggy or buggy, no one’s ever on it and definitely no one I know, there are rarely fun and engaging things to do or places to see, and occasionally the high graphics requirements will threaten to make my laptop burst in flame.

Guess which one I use more?

So it’s like this…all my friends are on Facebook. All of them. I don’t need a seperate piece of software to use Facebook–I just use Firefox, and I can access this social media mini-portal. Second Life requires a seperate client, is often either laggy or buggy, no one’s ever on it and definitely no one I know, there are rarely fun and engaging things to do or places to see, and occasionally the high graphics requirements will threaten to make my laptop burst in flame.

Guess which one I use more?

I guess, though, that these days the major focus of attention will become the new new Adult Continent anyway: at least people arriving there by choice, not chance, will know exactly what they’re looking for, and they might soon become SL’s group of most faithful customers…

I guess, though, that these days the major focus of attention will become the new new Adult Continent anyway: at least people arriving there by choice, not chance, will know exactly what they’re looking for, and they might soon become SL’s group of most faithful customers…