Do you fit the pattern?

I'm a fan of B5 too...

"We're not just some .. deep space franchise. This station is *about* something." (Ivanova)

I am still wondering how the writer of this article arrived at this age average and profession list. I wonder if he took the list of professions from looking at the work people did in SL rather than knowing what the 'average' resident (He says 'most of them') does in real life. Where would he get the age average?

When i first connected to the internet in '92, i read somewhere, with amusement, that the 'average internet user' was 25, male, earning around £25k a year, and worked in IT or connected with a university. I was 35 ish, female, a housewife and single mother with a part time income. £25k pa I wished!! However, this generalisation was probably more true then; from a number of meets i had with people on my first newsgroup, it seemed fairly accurate.

I don't think its true today, however, nor do i think the article in the Guardian is accurate of the average SL resident today either. The poll so far supports my view, as far as Forum contributors goes anyway.

Thanks all for replying to my poll.. More please!! Just being in SL and this forum makes you creative in my book.

love
imogen

I'm considerably older than the average and, since I am an attorney, decidely NOT creative.

Hrm.

The 'average' human on earth has 50% female anatomy and 50% male anatomy, and is exactly half the average life expectancy. And lives in India and China for the most part, with some residency absolutely everywhere else.

Anyone else have an issue with this logic?

I think we are a bit too diverse for characterisation, other than say, we can all obviously access the internet.

Just curious... how can you be a housewife and single mother at the same time?

52, Semiconductor Device R&D.

/me laughs and quickly checks the "No" box

THis is the internet??? I though all this was part of my spreadsheet!

good point Oryx...

I was working part time, and part time in the home, and raising my kids alone. Does that clarify?

love imogen

Ah Susan, the sister I never had. My favorite of hers is one I sometimes wish i could adopt when I get a new bunch of students:

Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophie
Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to
kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth. I am Death incarnate, and
the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me.

She really did kick ass, wish she would have been Pickard's #1 instead of that overgrown wuss what's his name again?

hum, don't want to hijack this thread, sorry.

Her World...Her Imagination.

Susan Ivanova is God. Er what was the question again?

I'm 34 and a linguist, so I fit the description pretty well...

Own my own business

Old enough to be in SL and still breathing.

Early 50s, web developer/designer, fiction writer

I'm 30 and in education, so I fit the profile. But I like to eat pie too... Hmmm what quandary.

Mmm... Imogenation... can this be a new word?

love, imogen

49, Systems Software Architect for a small division of a large company.

I'm drifting away from the average age at 38, but I work in reprographics as a Mac artworker, so I guess I sort of fit the bill.

Part that does match: Professional Analyst/Programmer/Developer & amateur graphics designer.

Part that doesn't match: 55

Does that mean I just eat pie?

Artist, 105 years old.

38 construction project management--- I'm a glorified baby sitter LOL

as well a artist/musician and home brewed IT guy

Conformity rears its ugly head...intent on taking Diversity.
Supporters of both sides raise the flag, and sign thier names...declare alliegance.

Sl is the battle ground.

Diversity verses Conformity and Random supports with hangers on..

Who will win..?

Nope, im outside the mold

43 and all technical -
a woman who is a retired mechanic, avid Pilot, and now running a bunch of retail websites.....


(I learned about computers when working on cars, who would have thought.)

Just turned 50, medical transcriptionist for the past 10 years, but worked construction/cabinet making for almost 25 years before that (and yes, I still have all my fingers). I consider my creativity to be all left brain stuff though...

308 in dog years, CAD drafter. I spend alot of time in Autocad. I have to turn chicken scratch sketches from engineers into legible construction documents. I do have to be creative.