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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.

 

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After reading this article, it made me realize what I have been saying about SecondLife is about the same thing in this article. As I have stated before, it is not easy to make decent things in SecondLife. To truly use these 3-D virtual worlds like SecondLife, one must have the most updated computer, video card, and all the rest. This is not easy or cheap.

If Linden Labs can do what they said they were going to do, then SecondLife can make it, but in a much different manner than it has in the past six years. I would like to see SecondLife go forward. This is all up to Linden Labs, the ones that have created this 3-D Virtual Reality. There are schools in SecondLife. This list is 27 pages long, so be careful of printing out this list. If so many businesses and schools did not use SecondLife, this 3-D virtual reality might not have lasted 3 years less alone 6 years.

Do not get me wrong, I am for technical progress. I guess I am writing this post because I am sadden that SecondLife is dying, and I want it to continue. I also see that SecondLife can make a difference in the economic down trends. Social Networking is constantly growing and growing. More ane more are using it like no one's business. These social networking services are more than making tons of friends in both personal or business formats.




Like in the conventional real life, the success of the Internet is how we communicate with one another. Can you make real friends online? Yes and no. What is more important is how you work with others online. No matter what we think, the Internet is here to stay, and it is apart of our lives. We have medical science, as we have it today, because of how technology has made a difference in our lives.

In every walk of life, we use some sort of computer technology: cell phones, laptops, desktop, hand held devices, etc. In the past, we have heard that using so much technology was a scary thing. Fear causes so much trouble in life. "Fear leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering." -- Yoda "Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999).

There is no dangers in a fast and growing technical world. If SecondLife is going to live on, we need to accept it, and take advantage of it. Even if Linden Labs did a lot better in running SecondLife, it needs customers. To make SecondLife better, Linden Labs needs to make a way so it is easier to design things in SecondLife. Right now, it is only possible for computer geeks to successfully do things and design things in SecondLife.

Designing websites these days are very easy to do. Using SecondLife needs to be just as easy. These days, one does not need to know how to use HTML to create a website or a blog. Do we care about the code when we use any form of social media? I do not, and I am a computer geek myself (though I am not a coder). Even in writing this blog posting, I am not concerned about the HTML, JavaScript code, or any other coding that is in this posting. Why should I care as long as what I want to be posted runs properly for my readers in this blog?

That is what I am saying here about SecondLife. Things needs to be a lot easier to use, create, or whatever than it has been. Ask yourself this question: "Why is social media working while SecondLife is falling far behind?" If Twitter or Facebook was in some form or 3-D format, they would still be growing just as fast as they are now. It has nothing to do directly with some kind of 3-D fad. SecondLife is failing due how difficult it is to interact within that system.

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It seems to me that the virtual ideology is coming to a close.  It might be due to the economy.  I think it is more to the limits of the 3-D virtual reality has been reached.  Social Media is still growing strong, if not stronger.

To create a 3-D virtual world takes far too much time, and not many are programmers.  As with games before SecondLife, it is hard to have a computer that would match the requirements needed to successfully run SecondLife.  Even then, it would not make running SecondLife smooth all the time.  The more that is on the grid or a sim, the more lagging it will be.  Another words, SecondLife can be more of a pain in the butt than it is worth.

I have stated that the technical support is not as good as it could be.  Maybe that is why SecondLife is dying.  The ones that are running it do not care all that much to make their system the best it can be.  A product is as good as the creators.  Maybe that is why our economy has failed.  Neither the government nor its people care enough to be their best.  Every action has an opposite equal reaction.

Spite all that I have said, the Internet is still alive and powerful.  I still strongly believe that the Internet will help the economy by crating jobs.  We all are already using the Internet in our day-to-day life.  It is only logical that more and even new jobs will be created online for us to grab onto.  I cannot say what will happen in the next five years because I cannot say what will happen tomorrow.

 

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I have stated many times before, the Internet is no place for children.  If parents would not put their children on the streets alone, then they should not allow them to be online.  I know they need to learn how to use the Internet.  All walks of life is online a lot more than ever before.  They will have their time to learn all they need to know later on in their life, and then some, before they can get a career going in their lives.

 

 

There are too much dangers in life for children to be on their own, online or off line.  Since both parents have to work to make ends meet, children are online unsupervised.  Due to our economy, children are by themselves a lot in their lives.  This can be dangerous in itself.  With the Internet, there are more dangers than one may realize.  Children cannot understand the dangers that are online.

Adults can rationalize and see what to do and not to do.  Normally, they will not give out private information to others online unless they are ordering something online.  When Children communicates with others online, they fall for anyone that treats them with respect.  Not everyone that is acts with respect and behaves right online is not a bad person, but children cannot rightfully rationalize things as adults can do.

 

 

There are more and more child molesters online than before.  These molesters will talk sweet and do all they can to hook children into their web.  There are far too many victims of child molestation, and it started as a simple kind communication online.  Before these children knows it, they are in the physical hands of these molesters.

What needs to be done to rightfully protect children online is for the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block under age people from logging online in the first place.  Stop it at the gates.  The child protection software does not work.  A good programmer (coder) can always go around those things.  If parents cannot be with their children when online, then the ISPs needs to take over.

The Internet is here to stay.  It has grown a lot since the public started to use it.  There is nothing evil about the Internet.  There is nothing wrong or evil about productivity and growth in life.  Child molesters have been around since the beginning of time.  Unfortunately, they will not go way.  They are evolving so fast, it is hard for the law officials to go after them.

Before it gets worse, we need to stop children at the gate of the login to the Internet.  Children are the future of any society.  We need to protect them like no one’s business.  When they become adults, they will be the ones to create new ideas online.  The future of any nation is in the hands of our children.

 

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