You can do pretty much everything you do in real life on Second Life. Avatars get their hair styled, buy clothes, buy land, dance, and do business. Paul Levinson's avatar created "Soft Edge Bookstore" a virtual bookstore on Bookstore Island in Second Life. His rent was paid in Linden dollars. The shelves were stacked with all 15 of his books. At the bookstore they were able to read more about his books, and found out how to buy them on amazon. If you bought the books he could tell you where to ship it for an autograph, just like a real bookstore! At the store, his avatar sat on the front porch in his rocking chair.Linden dollars are the currency that the avatars use on Second Life. Linden dollars are named after Linden Labs who created and continues to develop and administer Second Life. Linden dollars are used to purchase anything from land to a good-looking butt. You can earn them by either purchasing them through PayPal or you can earn them from other residents in Second Life. In December 2008, $5 U.S. dollars purchased about 1,310 L or Linden dollars. Linden dollars works like any worldwide currency.
Second Life is a fascinated social network where you can be a new person and do whatever you want. It is only one tenth as populated as Facebook, but it is definitely going up in popularity. So join Second Life, and have another life separate from your own. In this article they talk about how second life has significantly improves the quality of life for its disabled users.
In my experience on second life i found it fairly confusing. I talked via chat and not microphone and enjoyed flying around, but found it hard to navigate. I did not like talking to people because I found it creepy to talk to people I didn't even know. I don't intend to further my use of Second Life because I do not believe t was for me, but I could see how people could get addicted to it.
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