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

[Mark Bell]

Jon,

This is true. There is even a SL legend about this. Apparently, early
in the world's history there was a monk avatar who walked around not
interacting with anyone, but of course created a following =)

M

On 11/16/06, Jonathan Stern <jonlwstern at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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