I’ve always been of the belief that people like things to be about themselves. In SL, that means people like SL to be about them.

Consider TV, for instance We may not be on TV, but we watch TV because we identify with people on the programs we like. Not because we want to see the ads.

We join virtual environments because we get to exist in them, as avatars – not just to ooh and ahh over this or that singer, or this or that Linden, or this or that real-world business.

I’m counting on that fact to keep the real-life businesses more or less in their place, which will hopefully be but a small corner of SL. Otherwise, it will become Advertising World, and even if it is free to come in and look at the ads, who would want to stay for long?

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Some comparing it to damaging effects of alcohol, others portraying it that we set up adult stores with full fledge nudity next to a toy shop that kids can access, others yet saying this game is so new, the thought is fleeting and the game won’t last. I wish MSM would report REALITY of this virtual world as opposed to fluff articles, without hard facts of what’s acceptable and what’s not.

Either way, idiots aside, the fluff won’t last long when one of these precious follower reporters comes in world and is griefed to no end, then the grid goes down.

I’m starting to think the herald is the only piece of sanity left reporting on sl.
Hamlets blogroll is clogged with gushy pocket pissing comments from his palsy wals [bit like cocoNut and Proky], the mainstream media is all breathless reporting the next big thing [yawn] while the vc’s are laughing now that the subscription number is edging into trade sale credibility zone.

Meanwhile, QOS sucks, lindens are starting to implement fee for service money spinners like name domains and god knows what else up their sleeves, griefers abound with impunity…and did I mention QOS SUCKS??? and performance?

please…multiverse…kick their arse.