DISQUS

I've been on Second Life for 2 weeks and in that time I've figured out that it will only be interesting if you find a sim to be part of and then immerse yourself in the sim. Unless you are in there to make money or get publicity (by selling your Second Life creations or trying to market your Real Life brand) or are there for cybersex (plenty of 'orgy rooms' and places to rent escorts).

For example, I have a friend in the Gorean sim (Gor is a world of its own created by author John Norman in his series of books). Members of the sim participate in role-play... she had to do some reading up on Gor and take some kind of test to become a physician. Physicians are summoned to "heal" the warriors who are injured in wars. I told her it sounded like too much work. Then there are the slaves, or 'kajira' as they call them, who follow their masters everywhere and do whatever the masters tell them to do. Also too much work.

I haven't yet found a place to belong, which means I don't have anything to do in Second Life apart from flit around aimlessly, exploring. This is getting boring fast. And lag is very annoying. So I don't know how long I'll last. I don't exactly want to participate in a normal sim with shopping malls and residential areas and go to work every day (a lot of Second Life people do have jobs). I already do that in real life, cannot figure out why I would want to duplicate that in Second Life!