So… Second Life’s Only for Freaks, Hermits, Nymphos and Wasters?
Misinformed journalists, this is your warning. This post contains POSITIVE PRESS about Second Life™. For those of you unwilling to check out all sides of Second Life, for those sensationalists who are only interested in placing one or two extreme freakin’ psychos up on a platform and dictating to the world that these people represent the average Second Lifer, stop reading here. I would hate to piss all over your hate parade.
Today I was reading around at Second Life related articles again, as often I do and, as is always the case, I came across several of the usual hater style articles. You know the sort. The ones written by some wannabe journo who signs up to Second Life for half an hour, visits a newbie sex region, takes some snapshots of a freenis-wearing weirdo and reports in the national press that all Second Lifers are therefore sex addicted hermits, often morbidly obese who only ever leave their parent’s basements to retrieve more pizza.
Well… as a community of wasters, nyphos and hermits, we did pretty well for Relay for Life this year. In fact, to date, 2009 has seen residents of Second Life raise a staggering L$ 60, 324, 956. This, in real terms, equates to $ 263,361 (yes, US dollars). These were the the totals when I last checked the page but they are increasing all the time as more donations fly in and you can see the latest here. Second Life Relay for Life is becoming a bigger and better event with every single year that passes. And this achievement is something that anyone who took part, whether as an organiser or as someone donating to a random box they passed, can be proud of. That is over a quarter of a million US dollars raised for the America Cancer Society that would not have been raised were it not for Second Life and its residents.
Second Life Relay for Life is something that even a search on Google brings back little ‘real life’ press for in comparison to the stories about women leaving their husbands for their pixel partners. Such a shame really.
But anyway, enough gloating about the achievements of Second Lifers. I have pizza to gorge on, hermitry to partake in and general nymphomania and freakiness to be getting on with.
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Alicia Chenaux
That’s something that has always bothered me. So much good is done in Second Life, but it’s never talked about by the outside media. It’s always about crazy kidnappers and people getting divorced because they caught their man naked with another male avatar.
The bad part is that although ALL this money has been raised, when it’s turned in, it’s probably unlikely that they’ll give a thank you to the residents of Second Life. They’ll simply say that it’s online donations.