“Second Life”, a country in Plurkistan
January 29, 2009 4:07 am
Numerous, more than 700, Second Life avatars are using the social networking service Plurk. Plurk? Well, it’s kinda like Twitter, but then better, with _real_ conversations and a timeline. But up to now, they were ‘homeless’. They could set their Real Life country in profile location data, but not “Second Life” or a region.
This inspired Moggs Oceanlane and other influential Second Life Plurkers, often with a karma - Plurk’s ranking system - way above that of the average atomic - to start a quest for “recognition of Second Life citizenship”, or at least location data on Plurk’s getsatisfaction.com page: Avatars want to find one another too! A successful quest, I should add:
Today, Plurk officially added “Second Life” as a country on their location list, allowing ‘plurking’ avatars to easy find each other and browse ‘Second Life’ rankings. On getsatisfaction.com, Amir Salihefendic even responded: “As of today “Second life” is a country on Plurk :-) We may explore some more integration with “Second life” later on.” Woot! One small step for an avatar, a large one for mankind avatarkind. On Plurk, the joke of the day is: “Next, a seat in the United Nations?!” :D
And me? Until I feel more ‘virtual’ than ‘real’ and we have social health benefits in Second Life, I’ll gladly stick to Belgium as an excellent country. Thank you very much for the offer though! ;)
6 Responses to ““Second Life”, a country in Plurkistan”
Wow… thanks for the update Vint… I’ve hardly been on the ‘nets so waaay behind everywhere. Yay us!
I love being an Aussie… and a second lifer… I don’t distinguish either but many do. I’m now torn. Maybe I’ll change it on a weekly basis!
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… but … their range of birth-years isn’t ready for 2nd Life avatars yet!
Sadly Skype have not found us yet - but one day one day.. Then United Nations will and maybe EU… but thats a maybe.. right now they work hard for making the movie and music industrie producers happy…
But will we be taxed by more than two countries then!!!! OHH.. probably… sh**
Hugs/Tina
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