Second Life

I just had my first Second Life experience--and unless my future employer uses Second Life for collaboration, it will be my last.

I believe I was just teased by a bunch of people on Second Life…a group of people sitting on Second Life in a virtual world on a Saturday afternoon, standing around chatting. After creating my avatar, Layton, I was teleported into some region and all of these characters were just standing around. I typed “chat” and asked what everyone was doing standing around.
The reply was, “we are all having cybersex Layton. One big orgy”. This was the sort of activity I expected—I cannot even tell you what I picture when I think of users of chat rooms and Second Life but I was about to sign off when some kind user told me it was just a chat room. I didn’t understand what they were chatting about because so much of it was acronyms.

I told the group that this was my first Second Life experience. I literally got an, “eye roll”—apparently you get updates from gestures? I asked if anyone had any recommendations. One kind user told me to just explore the search and teleport. Other users started inputting, LMAO. I then asked what LMAO meant, and got more LMAO. I googled it to find out that LMAO means “laughing my ass off”. How original. I left the chat.

I then teleported to IBM’s region. It was empty. I saw some signs, a motorcycle, and a fountain. I flew around for a few minutes. Then I looked outside my real window and saw that it was still sunny out and thought my dogs could use a walk. Turns out Second Life just doesn’t do it for me-- I’d rather actually go outside…even if it means I have to walk instead of fly.