Posts in the "Social Media" Category

• Friend

  First Life
  

  Is it odd to have close friends in Second Life? People who you’ve never met in the first life, but who mean the world to you? People who you’d help in any way you could? I’ve seen the notion that “internet friends aren’t real” bandied around before, yet it feel incredibly real. I’ve come to [...]

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• Dude.. where my attention sp.. ooh, a cookie!

  First Life
  

  I’m pretty certain Google has destroyed my attention span. Google is my browser’s homepage, and when I click for Firefox to load, I expect Google to pop up instantly. This set a dangerous precedent when I then do a search, and again expect the results to be accurate to what I’m looking for, and to [...]

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• Get a Real Life

  First Life
  

  Okay – I’m pretty sick and tired of seeing the same comments and posts up in various places, all saying the same thing: “Go outside, meet a real person, read a book, have a walk, live a REAL life!” I mean, jeeez. Get over yourselves. This “real world” myth that people who use the internet [...]

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• Music

  First Life
  I’ve been DJing in SL for about 2 years, although it’s far from being my primary activity in world. I have a passion for music – everything from rock and indie to trance and hip hop, and a lot more in between. There’s not a musical genre I won’t listen to. My headmaster at primary [...]

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• Life as a Smarmy Brit

  First Life
  I actually had to look up “Smarmy”.. it didn’t mean what I thought it did. I regularly get picked up about my sense of humour, in both worlds. I daresay it’s one of the first traits that anyone will pick up from me – I have a wickedly dry sarcastic tone, coupled with a quick [...]

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• Election Fever!

  Articles
  I generally never vote. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a much happier place when I stay away from the polling station as I’d just look at the posters in people’s windows, and then pick a random party in the booth. Registering is enough hassle. Someone said to go down to [...]

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