i woke up ... and

distant recalls of Second Life emerging
slipping into patterns ...
nudging their way between neurons
filling up memory spaces ...


i went on line searching ...

and then

stumbled across this site

http://obijan.com/av/index.php?mode]http://obijan.com/av/index.php?mode[/highlight]

the title of the page is Second Life Avatar Search

and included the following statement:
Search our database of 2624571 Second Life avatar names
for a specific one, or use our reports to examine the larger trends.


curious, i entered my first name in search
and in just a couple of clicks my profile came up:

Arsenic Soyinka
Avatar Name: Arsenic Soyinka
Birthday: 2005-11-30
Payment status: Payment used
Key: 106dbaea-3e0f-49ef-959e-ed5011071caf
Last seen online: 2007-10-01 18:57:31
Family: 148 others with last name "Soyinka"
10 others with first name "Arsenic"
Actions: SL


i was struck by the emergence of this data

Birthday? - Payment Status? - KeY? (what is that?, i thought)
Last seen online? (why?, who would want to know or care?)

(plus, i had always thought i was the first "Arsenic" on SL)


i then went to the main page, obijan.com, to snoop around

there are 3 links there.

most notably

1. Second Life Products, offering for sale Huds,
a Scanning Drone, and a Professional Online Indicator,
which indicates the online status of anyone on SL

2. Second Life Stats, having 2 links to Avatar Stats & Region Stats.

- AVATAR STATS lists categories of data on Avatar Statistics

People having a birthday
Top 50 Most Popular first names
Top 50 Most Exclusive last names
Top 50 Most Popular last names
Recent custom names
The Linden Family
Oldest Non-Linden Members
ACS Members
Recent Signups
Stats: Payment status


- REGION STATS lists catagories of data on Region Statistics

Recently added regions
Recently removed regions
Stats: Region Ratings


im sure one could conjure up all kinds of thoughts and theories
based upon data like this being so easily accessible ... i did

is all this simply harmless,
or reflections of loss of privacy, freedom, and Big Brotherhood?

it didnt take me long after joining SL to realize
i really didnt like Second Life ... simply becos ...
its too much like Real Life , if not worse

and i am constantly amused by those who dont seem to mind
intensely dealing simultaneously with the intense problematic issues
common to both worlds ... and far too many to list here

and amused by those who are desperate, needy and dependent
... on interaction and relationships ... on recognition and validation

and for the majority in the bigger picture, participation of citizenship,
is acceptance, compliance, and apathy.

and perhaps this easily accessible data is not in the least threatening,
but good for ones ego and sense of self worth, crucial to a feeling of
acceptance and credibility

oh the horrors of being invalid, and the coming One World Government,
UFO's, Aliens from other Planets, and the destruction of Religious Cultures!


if Second Life is merely a Game, then how come Real Life isnt?

or is it?



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Im not sure what the technical issue is in this post, but thanks for think regardless. All this info is already available to anyone who gets a free AV. Considering LL has opened most of this up to off world view on the internet, it's not surprising that someone has scraped the data and created a searchable database. I know of at least one more just like it.

well, technically speaking ... just to make it offical,
i did ask what is Key: 106dbaea-3e0f-49ef-959e-ed5011071caf?

other than that ... thanks for acknowledging my thoughts

i feel so valid now


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The info is outdate as far as last seen goes. Also has my brother listed as a lifetime account

He never told me that. (Don't believe it is true)

The Key is your UUID, or unique identifier code. It's sort of like your Avatar's Social Security Number, if you will. Every Avatar has one and everyone's is different. But before you get upset it's public, just know anyone can get this information by scanning you nearby, or even looking it up on one of the many key databases (like www.w-hat.com). The key is really only of value to scripts or if you want to make your database seem impressive.