On Thursday, British environmentalist, journalist and author George Monbiot will be coming to Second Nature. George is a controversial figure, well known for his views on climate change and he will be talking to us about his suggestions for saving the planet, including an immediate 90% reduction in carbon emissions if we are to avoid hitting the “tipping point” after which there is no going back.
All welcome – any newcomers to Second Life, if you want to come, but you get stuck/get lost/just need some help getting started, by all means drop me a line and I’d be happy to meet and show you round Second Life beforehand.
Date: Thurs 21st Feb
Time: 9am SLT, 12pm EST, 5pm GMT.
Location: Second Nature Island
Contact: Joanna Wombat
I recently succumbed to the whole Facebook thing and now spend way too much time on there, and I suspect Second Life would be even worse. Do you feel the experience is worth the time spent on it?
I know what you mean about Facebook, Cath – it really is one of the biggest time-waster sites I’ve ever come across. I guess it varies for everyone, but I personally haven’t found the same thing with Second Life at all – I go in for a specific purpose (attend event, meet someone I’ve arranged to meet, view a new exhibit I’ve read about) and I don’t tend to just “hang around” a lot at all.
Maybe that’s just me – I was never very into chatting to complete strangers online even when I was 15 and had nothing better to do! I do sometimes sit on my island and chat to people who come to visit, but I don’t really feel I’ve made a huge number of “friends” in SL and I certainly don’t find myself thinking “oh, I’ll just look at one more island before I go back to the real world…”. For me it’s there to do what I came to do – and certainly much less distracting than browsing websites.
I found the biggest time input was at the beginning – I really think it takes over an hour and a few visits to really get the hang of SL, just generally finding your feet, learning to navigate, etc etc. If you can devote that, then I think it’s definitely worth it for the variety of events and people I would never have met otherwise.