Start of my Blog

Hi,

Thanks for reading this... Well, at least that's what I (like other Bloggers) hope to have, someone reading my writings.

About me, or rather my persona in Second Life:
I'm a regular guy, shy, friendly, curteous and so on. Or am I?
Actually I don't know who I am, maybe I should rephrase that, I don't know what I am.

The thing is that in Second Life (further referred to as SL) you can be anybody or anything. You want to be a man or woman, fine no problem. You want to be a cat, dog, furry, alien, box, ball or whatever comes to mind, you can be just that. Just a little warning though, don't change too much all of a sudden, you might shock your friends or worse. Always remember that behind every Avatar (SL-persona) is a real person, with real feelings.

So back to my previous statement about myself, "I don't know what I am.". At the time of signing up for SL I decided to pick a male character, not knowing much about what SL really is. Now (after nearly 200 hours in the game) I do know what it is about, at least for a part of it. It is a very big world after all. Since in my opinion you always represent a little bit of your RL (Real Life) self in the game, people will know what you are unless you're a good actor (Role Player). So because I'm mostly myself in the game I sometimes confuse peoples expectations. Everybody has some expectations when they see someone for the first time.

Anyway, when I started (22nd of October) I had little idea of all the possibilities and unfortunately due to me being in Europe there were no Mentors or Newbie helpers available when I was in game. So I figured out a lot by myself. I don't mind that at all, but I can imagine it's rather daunting to some people. So when you do start out, keep that in mind. Also I noticed that lots of people are too lazy to read information. There are lots of note-cards in the game handed out to you that answer frequently asked questions. Or if it's related to an item it will describe how to use it or set it up.

So far SL has been good to me and I have been good to my fellow SL users. I do help out new people when I see them and ask for help. Sometimes they are thankfull, sometimes not, but that's (Second) Life.

Next time I'll show you some pictures of places and describe more about the game itself.