[Warning: The links contained herein are highly addictive (studies confirm this claim) and the writer bears no responsibility whatsoever for individual cases of internet addiction]
In ‘Second Life’ (secondlife.com), Linden Labs claim is just what its name suggests- a second leash of life. A bit of exaggeration? Well of course, the idea of having to live out one’s life in front of a laptop was never all that appealing but if you haven’t heard of this of one, you are surely a little way down the technological time machine. This is, celeb geeks claim, the biggest storm in the cyber-world ever to be kicked up and that it hasn’t shown any signs of dying down. It is only expanding at an unfathomable rate and sure enough, it’s now officially an addiction.
So why tell you folks all this? Actually my motive behind this article is pretty simple. As we have already seen the social networking club manifest itself at monstrous rates in the past couple of years- Orkut, Hi5 and their ilk, I am more than sure that Second Life will soon find a footing too: so much for our culture of all-inclusiveness. So this is just a pre-emptive measure before the storm; I decided to use the calm for some infotech services so that when the storm hits, you know where the winds are blowing from.
Did I hear someone ask- but what would you possibly gain from a website that looks at best, a time-wasting or life-wasting project? Money I say! The internal currency is the Linden Dollar which stands at 271 Linden dollars to the US dollar as of this writing, and this gap is fast bridging. You can actually have your bank accounts deposited with the cyber-bucks (not so cyber anymore huh?)- that was for the more business minded. But for us lesser mortals, there’s always ‘normal life’ as in AVS- hanging around, meeting new people and yes they are ‘real’, singing, dancing, driving fast cars(don’t say you haven’t driven on campus, we all have, or haven’t we?)- you can go on and on. The environment has been totally evolved by the users themselves and is overwhelmingly ‘interactive’ to say the least. And here’s respite for our Romeos- there’s the odd maiden to woo too, which is pretty easy, basing the statement on personal experience; then you can actually go around with someone from the North Pole or if you are lucky, even Timbaktu.
So would you skip this life for one where you can be who you want to be, and as good-looking as you ever wished you were? Nah…. that sounds defeatist, so I would not test these waters. In any case, the low-end systems and slow connections are going to be bottlenecks in Linden Labs’ highly anticipated collaboration with fellow Aviators. But as soon as the connection speeds touch 768 kbps(in real terms), you know where to head, and don’t say I didn’t warn you. Whether it’s a sheer waste of time, energy, and bandwidth or otherwise- is for you to decide. And if you indeed find someone special, don’t forget to send me a thank-you note.
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