In a nutshell - What is this about?

I created this blog for those who are interested on Internet Addiction and my request to Linden Lab to display a cautionary note mentioning Internet Addiction to the people signing in.

After all this time, this has become just a way to place this on the conversation. This is in a nutshell all I strive for.


Your liberty to read or leave its not denied on this space.


Virtual communities have enormous potential and will be part of many people's life's and work. So we need to take a thoughtful approach towards this. SL has an extraordinary pull and this phenomenon can result in dramatic damage to people who develop an addictive attachment to them.

  1. People joins in with no knowledge of this phenomenon
  2. Awareness of a danger helps reduce its potential harm
  3. Any tool to display this reality, might prevent those who read it

All ideas an opinions are welcome, posts with foul or offensive language might be deleted. Some information and videos might be disturbing for some people please be advised.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

History of the in-world office

Bad idea. Most likely.

Also fuels the notion of me being an addict needing a crusade to get my Fix! So lame. Working with 2 of my best friends, one of them a terrible addict like myself at the time and the other a very well balanced person.

Even as I disliked the idea of having an in-world office, I conceded to develop a self-service stop, a place where information is placed, and people can come in and see the ideas and links to sites (like the elliptic blog) and to other resources, that way we don't need to be in-world at all to have the message sent.

In retrospective the greatest virtue of this approach, was that it was aimed at actual players, and seeking to promote balance! A balanced use of the platform can be quite positive too, for those that can elude the addictive pull.

Art was made by Kralli, kind citizens Timberlake and Lilianna gave us land to use for many months! My friend K, left SL and is now doing great away from it.

We had a couple of good meetings there, two professionals saw the office, maybe one or two people truly interested visited it.

That was it, a major impact failure. Still lesson learned.

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