Love Thursday: Second Life®
I don’t remember who started this thing of the “Love Thursday”… Possibly it was Berry, but anyway, i think is a lovely idea, to write a blog post about something or someone you love. And specially today, Thanksgiving… So, since this is my first “Love Thursday” post, i’ll start saying THANKS to Second Life®.
Well, thanks to Linden Lab, and to Philip Linden (or Philip Rosedale, as you prefer), for making this amazing world and for keeping it up together with all the residents inside of it. I love Second Life because it gave me the possibility of meeting people from all over the world, with different views, opinions, visions…
I love SL because thanks to it i decided to learn myself Photoshop, GIMP… and some other software related with images, video and 3D creation and edition. And because it helped me to improve (not enough, lol) my English, and made me think about blogging and writing. I love SL because it opened my mind to my creative side with new unexplored options.
I love SL because i met there WONDERFUL friends, amazing creative minds, fun, caring, loving and amazing. Because it gave me the opportunity to share experiences and moment with these friends, to laugh with them, to cry with them, to share much more than a simple conversation.
I love SL because i can build my dreams (and my nightmares) in it and i can share them. Because is a strange world full of crazy and awesome people. Because all you can find inside that world is build by someone like you, another resident.
I love SL because it can cause PASSION in its residents, passion to love it and even to hate it.
I love SL because, after being more than 4 years in it, it can still surprise me.
I love SL because my pixel soul lives in it. 
Poor, oppressed and under the rain
Image by Torley published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
“Bad weather, oppressive regimes, poor economic conditions — that’s what makes an SL user.”
Philip Linden (AKA Philip Rosedale)
Yes, he said that in an interview for Reuters, not a joke, just part of an interview.
Of course maybe Philip wanted to say Second Life is a good way for some people to have access to some kind of contents under “adverse” conditions, but the sentence is too categorical, too emphatic…
Most of the residents in Second Life have their RL residence in USA or in Western Europe, or in other countries like Brazil, and the regimes there are supposed to be democratic.
I agree some people live in countries with some rainy weather, but most of us (I mean MOST OF US) life in areas with a non-extreme weather, or even really good weather.
But, for me, the worse on Rosedale’s affirmation is the “poor economic conditions”. First, poor people can’t have a computer, and second and even more important, they can’t have the broadband Internet connection Second Life requires, specially in some continents like Africa.
I would say some other comments about this, but i just prefer to say Mr. Rosedale is, with this sentence, “not quite in touch with reality”. (Rheta Shan dixit)
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