what is secondlife?

Question

what is secondlife.com about and why are people going crazy for it? Is it like Sims? Please educate me. =)

Answer 1

Second Life (abbreviated as SL) is an Internet-based virtual world which came to international attention via mainstream news media in late 2006 and early 2007.[4][5] Developed by Linden Lab, a downloadable client program enables its users, called "Residents", to interact with each other through motional avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service combined with general aspects of a metaverse. Residents can explore, meet other Residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, create and trade items (virtual property) and services from one another.

Second Life is one of several virtual worlds that have been inspired by the cyberpunk literary movement, and particularly by Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash. The stated goal of Linden Lab is to create a world like the Metaverse described by Stephenson, a user-defined world of general use in which people can interact, play, do business, and otherwise communicate.[6] Second Life's virtual currency is the Linden Dollar (Linden, or L$) and is exchangeable for US Dollars in a marketplace consisting of residents, Linden Lab and real life companies.

While Second Life is sometimes referred to as a game, it does not have points, scores, winners or losers, levels, an end-strategy, or most of the other characteristics of games. In all, more than five million accounts have been registered, though many are not active, and some Residents have multiple accounts. Despite its prominence, Second Life has notable competitors, including Active Worlds, There, and newcomers such as Entropia Universe, Dotsoul Cyberpark, Red Light Center, and Kaneva.

Answer 2

Okay i was like you when i first started playing. Basiclly what i tell people now that ask me about it is think of anything you can do in real life you can do in here. Even some things you would never dream of doing in real life due to various laws.

Answer 3

i pretty much think that our second life is given to us after we die , we are a whole different person , different personality, color , language, parents, you know all that stuff because i think i'm living in my second life because i don' t think god would want a lot of people up there with him, i mean it would be pretty hard to move around with over 2 billion people walking around and stuff

Answer 4

its a virtual reality avatar game in which u create an avatar and live a second life . thats basically what it is.

Answer 5

Go there and check it out yourself.