SecondLife? Why not get a FirstLife:

I've never been totally convinced by the hoopla and hype that surrounds SecondLife.

To my mind, the jury is still out. (Although I do applaud the brands and agencies that have dived  in and are giving it a go. Because hey, you never know. If you don't buy a ticket, you don't win the lott...etc, etc.)

I joined a few months ago, created an avatar, which to be honest looked more like the lead singer of an 80's heavy-metal band than my actual suave, debonair, Cary Grant like reality. (If you believe I actually do look like that, you'll believe anything.)

I did a lot of flying around, and sitting around typing wildly in the air at nothing, (am I the only one who thinks this looks ridiculous and stupid?) Oh and I got threatened and sworn at by some neo-Nazi's when I tried talking to a girl one time, when I was wandering around hopelessly lost. (The 'neo-nazi' was probably in reality a bespectacled Sunday school teacher from Barnsley, the 'girl' a  48 year old truck driver from Texas.)

Anyhow, I didn't hang about and teleported myself out of their as quickly as I could.

Thing is, I've always found SecondLife a totally unsatisfactory experience.

It looked kind of crap in there, and I wasn't really bothered about spending the time to get any good at being a SL citizen.

And I suppose that's why I smiled when I came across the SecondLife piss-take above.

Encouraging people to actually engage in a, er, 'Get a First Life.'

It's a pity they've only put one page up, and the links go nowhere, it could be a wonderful satire.

Comments

[Mike]

Good point Ewan. Actually, I'll put up a BCS post in the next few days. See if we can entice any of the advertising, marketing and design community to come along.

[Ewan McIntosh]

I, too, am yet to be convinced about SL as a) entertaining or b) a potential learning opportunity. I've tried and failed to find hard evidence of large numbers of active Lifers:
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2006/12/leweb3_secondli.html

but look forward to being convinced at the BarCampScotland where a couple of SecondLifers are going to share their experiences.