If anyone’s wondering if virtual worlds are the next social frontier for teens, they might want to look at the evidence. At least, the evidence of how much one virtual world – Second Life – has infiltrated the “real world” and vice versa:
And while Second Life passes the 5 million-resident mark, long-time members with something of a “we were here first” attitude are getting annoyed about the commercialization and all these new avatars walking and flying around, the Los Angeles Times reports – though their message is more about wanting more say in the virtual world’s fate. So now there’s a “Second Life Liberation Army” blowing up storefronts and saying that “80% of long-term residents support their cause.” For more on all this, including the teen part of the equation, pls click to this week’s issue of my newsletter.
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