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Friday, July 17, 2009

Virtual Worlds News: NewsBrief: Cisco Layoffs Near 700

After reading this article, I cannot see any future for SecondLife or even 3-D virtual realities. I think this is on several main reasons. As with anything in life, there are many reasons for why things happen in the way they do.

When it comes right down to it, we need reality, the physical world. At first the 3-D virtual reality could have made things a lot cheaper, but as the old saying, “You get what you pay for.” In that case, SecondLife has not really changed much in the real world, or makes things cheaper. Having something cheap does not make it cheaper.

When it comes right down to it, has SecondLife really brought people around the world together? We know that Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and many others have brought us together in a big way, but the point is there is nothing like face-to-face interactions. Even thought Cisco Systems has laid off a lot, they have not walked away from SecondLife.

This is a red flag for me. If a giant computer networking company can start to layoff their employees from SecondLife, then it tells me that it is failing for them to be in SecondLife. I believe that this is sign of SecondLife is already dead. One will still read there are a good number of people that logs inworld. I am starting to believe that number is a lie from Linden Labs.

If so many are leaving SecondLife, real life jobs that were in SecondLife are being laid off, virtual ghost towns of many, many sims in SecondLife, etc., then how can there be that many that are logging in? It does not make sense to the reality of it all. If all this is true, then Linden Labs needs to admit to the public that they are closing their virtual doors. There is no reason to keep SecondLife going if less and less are using it.

When I find time to log inworld myself, there are hardly anyone inworld. I go to many sims, and I am about the only one in them. I have a good number of people on my friend’s list. There are less than 10 inworld at a given time I am inworld. Again, where are the large number of people that is claimed to be inworld? I have not hardly seen anyone inworld lately.

If less and less are inworld, how can anyone make real life or SecondLife money? So far this year, I have not seen ANY growth in SecondLife. This month, I have seen more down trends than anything. The real life economy is definitely making a contribution in how many logs inworld and even using the Internet at this time. Broadband is not cheap.

If one does not have the income to pay for Internet services, than that will harm SecondLife. I personally do not think that is a big issue with SecondLife. YouTube is still as fast growing social media format online, It takes broadband to rightfully use video online. Twitter and Facebook are big as well. It takes broadband to rightfully use them due to mostly on how many are using these social networking services.”

The Internet is growing. SecondLife is the one that is not growing. Life itself is growing spite the economy. Everything in life is continuing while SecondLife has not done anything. Why is this? How can SecondLife be big a few years back, and now it is failing?

To use high graphic services online or offline, one needs a high end computer, and keep up with the fast growing technology. That cost far too much. Businesses do not update their computers every time a new technology pups up. It is easier to create a website, with video, graphics, and all the rest. High end computers are not needed to view websites.

SecondLife is not all that easy to use. I mean to really use it, one needs to rightfully be a computer geek, a programmer, or even a computer engineer. It is not easy to create things in SecondLife. To look at websites, it takes no extra knowledge. If a technical business can lay off all that they have done, then that tells me that SecondLife is already dead.

Brandon Bowers

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