Before I write about this article, this article has links to some videos. It might be at your best interest to watch them. Social Networking a fast growing aspect of life today. If all aspects of life does not get hooked on, then expect dust in the air.
Since Linden Labs created this 3-D virtual reality five years ago, it has climbed beyond all expectations. Nearly everyone around the world is using it, including educators. All aspects of life is using SecondLife. That is how big things are inworld of SecondLife. It all has to due with social networking.
Tell me a time that you can watch CNN without having one of the news casters reading tweets from Twitter accounts. Did you also know that businesses are using all the big wig social networking systems like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace? So are millions of teenagers that will one day be in the work force in one kind of career or the other. These teenagers will be the ones having the jobs that right now do not exist. These jobs will be the ones that will be using the new technologies that would put what we have today in the dust. That is how fast technology is growing.
Educators, business, and all forms of life are on these social networking system. SecondLife is a 3-D virtual reality of this social networking. Spite what you may read or hear from the critics against social networking and virtual worlds, they are growing and growing by the millions of people constantly using them. Even President Obama uses social networking get all of us in the United States of America to live the best life we can.
That is the wonders of SecondLife. You can change you appearance, gender, outfits, etc. with great easy. Based on what you are doing in SecondLife one can set up their avatar to represent themselves within their surroundings. What is very important is how one communicates with others. As in a job, you do not want your avatar to be looking like something a cat dragged in. How one looks is just as important as how one communicates with others.
That is the main understanding: Communication. We are in the technology age, but the communication age has grown along with technology. After all that is what the Internet was designed for since ARPA. A lot has changed since the ARPANET. Social networking is not a fad that will go away. Actually it is growing faster then any of us can keep up with it.
Some 3-D virtual systems have not made it as big. Right now SecondLife is leading big in the virtual worlds. This has to do with the users of SecondLife then Linden Labs themselves. When a business treats their consumers with respect they deserve, then giant result comes to pass. By the hard work on these users created things in SecondLife, prosperity is the end result.
SecondLife is not without its own problems, but that did not stop things growing big time inworld. The number of people logging in to SecondLife only has increased since 2003. Right now of this posting, there are around 60,000 to over 80,000 people logging into SecondLife daily. I do not think even Linden Labs could have predicted these numbers. The success is in everyone, including Linden Labs.
All types a schools are in SecondLife right now. Believe it or not nurses are being trained in SecondLife. In the conventional manner they had to work on dummies. Now they can be trained how to communicate with their patients by the use of real people controlling the (avatars) patients. Business are even training their employees in the means of team working. These two things could not have been done fully without the true interaction that SecondLife gives.
I could go down the list on all the benefits on how SecondLife has improved things in training and doing every day things. What the biggest thing that this 3-D virtual reality gives is the abilities to use less natural resources. By having business meetings and the like in SecondLife, a lot of natural resources are being saved for better use and less of it. The only electricity that is needed is the power to run a computer.
Air travel will be used for less business travel and more for luxury travel. Moderation will the norm on all things when we can use the Internet for transporting of information. Money will also be saved for unnecessary travel. Think about it, how much does the average person travel? How much money can the average person save if they did not have to travel all that much just by using the Internet? That is what SecondLife can solve.
When I was going to school every day, I had to pay for gas. If most of my classes were online and no need to go to a face-to-face classroom, then I could have saved a ton of gas money. Trust me, communicating by email is no way for a teacher to teach or a student to learn. Neither is the use of bulletin boards (BBS). That is not real interactive communication.
Social networking is 100% real interactive communication, if not more. How many students had to wait for a reply to a BBS question or an email from the instructor, and have it done before the exam over what the question was about? With Social Networking it is easier for both to communicate back and forth vs email, BBS, or the old forms of Internet communication systems. SecondLife put reality online for the first time.
Blessed Be to Isis and you,
Real Name: Brandon Bowers
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