What Is Your Perception Of Second Life?

The title above comes from Strawberry Singh’s weekly meme. This one says you can make a video to answer the question. Heck, I don’t even do audio, I don’t think I’ll be making any videos. I write. She did say you could post your answers in written form.

1. What is your perception of Second Life?

That is a big fat question. Wide open. Too big for me. Makes me want to ask, “what do you mean?” I suppose I could wax on about the value of the Second Life experience in today’s society or some such. I could even fake it if I really had to. But hey, if you ask a simple question, you get a simple answer…

My perception is that Second Life is fun.

2. Do you feel the portrayal or reputation Second Life seems to have in the mainstream media is justified?

Yes.

First, the pop culture news media does a poor job in general so why would you expect it to do a good job covering Second Life? Second, Second Life has a bad reputation because Linden Lab did a poor job of public relations.

If your product really does stink and the news media does good coverage of that fact, then you are in serious trouble. But if your product really is good and the news media has been doing a poor job of covering that, then any trouble you are in is your own damn fault. Get off your butt and do something about it.

3. Do you talk about your Second Life with your real life friends and family.

Just with one close person. Nobody else knows what I’m talking about so I stopped mentioning it a long time ago.

4. What is your most favorite thing to do in Second Life?

Sit in my little room in the sky, listen to music and write or read.

I still explore once in awhile but I have no building projects anymore in Second Life. I still have one writing project in SL but the people I used to work with are gone – either to OpenSim or away from virtual worlds entirely, so not much happens on the writing front in SL these days. Instead, I come to SL to rest from either RL or OpenSim or other writing projects.

Second Life has become my retreat.

It’s fun to have a retreat.

I like quiet fun, what can I say?