Personal reasons why you decided to join second life??

I was bored so...

(Is it just me, or do all the really strange stories start with "I was bored, so," or "I was drunk, so,?"

I honestly wanted a creative outlet, so when I was directed to SL, I was desperate enough to try it. *shrugs* Once I got past the major learning curve, I was addicted to cursing at it. At least I'm not bored anymore

Aren't real universities getting a little tired of SL as a subject for a sociology/psychology essay? Or are you a prof who's gonna lambast us in front of your class with stuff you found out about us?

Working in the computer industry, I expected at some point a customer would ask me what this Second Life was all about; with all the buzz in the media in late 2006. So, half already having dismissed it as a Sims clone, I joined just to scope it out, and pretty much instantly got hooked on building and scripting.

Let's write an essay on how many parents are going to go berserk when they find out they are paying colleges thousands of dollars so their kids can study a computer game.

I was bored, unemployed and have a degree in 3D Animation which wasnt doing me any good. The ability to build AND sell what I made piqued my interest.

And where else can I annoy people in 3D???

Heh! I got an IT manager interested in it.

cause I failed at end game

Oh, gosh... someone posted on a message board I frequent that she had joined SL and talked it up. She invited everyone to join her, and I was game.

I hadn't been in-world a week when I realized that SL was the perfect vehicle to stay in touch with my husband, who was then working four hours away and sometimes home on weekends, if we were lucky. Oh, man. One of the first evenings we spent in SL, we spent some time sitting at a picnic table talking, and just the ability to sit there and communicate in real time instead of by email... was incredible. (We were kind of broke at the time, and so not using the phone much.)

Now my husband is home and working locally again, and our connection bogs down when we both try to get into SL at once. So we're spending more time together here and I'm in-world a lot less. I'm glad we had it when we needed it, though!

Brilliant and very true for me as well.

I was recovering from major surgery and decided to check out what all the hype in the press was about.

I had visited SL years early and found it spooky.

Wrong one.

Interesting question and simple to answer for me. #
I have met someone in another virtual world called Moove Online and this person told me about a "better world" and invited me into SL, made my account and sent me the invitation... so I only needed to download the client and fillout the username and my passwort and click join that was all about

I was a RL acquaintance of The Sojourner. She knew I was into digital art, and she thought I'd really like the creative aspects of SL.

Unfortunately, I didn't get around to trying SL until after she died. She, I think, would have gotten a real kick out of seeing what I've been creating here so far. I wish I'd tried SL sooner.

I read an article in the LA Times about SL in 2004. The idea of user created content fascinated me, so did the idea of complete freedom. I don't "game" exactly because I can't stand that whole leveling and task completion thing...too much like RL work

I joined so I could read the forums and be come intellectual with all the great advice about how to live one's life from all the people who know everything here.

I came here so I could give needy people like Dekka the benefit of my wisdom and experience.

Pep (Actually I was searching for my lost youth. Have you seen him?)

i joined for personal reasons.

I'd heard about SL in MYST:Uru online a few years ago. Friends there were talking about this virtual world they'd found. Eventually I was convinced to give SL a try and here I am. Exploration was something I loved doing in Uru and I continue to do that here in SL.

Because I've been wondering when someone would get around to implementing the Other Plane from True Names since I read it over 25 years ago, and this seemed like a good start.

Oh, and it's finally in print again, collected in: http://www.amazon.com/True-Names-Opening-Cyberspace-Frontier/dp/0312862075