[Air-l] second life from: refs on myspace and facebook

[Jonathan Stern]

Jeremy and others,

I'd say the interface itself does not provide a true shared activity, second
life is a great place for shared activities, but the simple interface and
movement scheme does not echo anything shared for me.  A user could very
easily use second life and attempt to never truly interact with others while
still using a shared activity.

Overall Shared Activity--Conceptually could mean many things but, shared
activites are an important and neccessary part of the SL dynamic and I would
argue that sharing or communal activities are central to what SL is about.

Sorry for the somewhat not cohesive rant,

Jon

On 11/14/06, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> hmmm, i would argue the opposite.  I would say the SL interface, the
> avatarian embodiment, the world physics with walking, flying and
> related activities all constitute an overall shared activity.   But
> what do you mean by overall shared activity?
> On Nov 14, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Mark Bell wrote:
>
> > Bonnie,
> >
> > Just a note. There is no overall shared activity in Second Life.
> >
> > M
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Jonathan L. Stern
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