Insulting or not?

*note my tounge is firmly planted in my cheek*

Reading M.Linden's blog on his 2 month tenure and one statement caught my eye:

1. Second Life users are more mainstream than many assume. It’s not just tech-savvy early adopters or gamers. It’s a much broader cross-section of society with a median age in the early 30’s and nearly half the time spent in world is by women.



Err.. so he's saying women can't be tech savvy early adopters or gamers? I know i'm fairly new to SL, but I've been playing on line games since the mid 90's and build my own computers! Women can be Geeks too!!!!111!

I read: Hey, great! 50% of the Avatars are female.

Shall we tell him?

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Aleco

i think you are reading it wrong. they are saying that of all the residents, nearly half (49% or less) is women. it doesn't say what percentage of those women is techy or not techy, or which percentage is 30ish.

that means 51%+ is men, who may or may not dominate the techy part of the resident count. it is not clear enough to assume that either.

you can't hunt and peck the passages that suit you at any given time and twist them to fit a personal agenda. this is not the Bible.

Keep the mystery alive. (=_=)

Don't you imagine they are looking at registration details instead of Avatar gender?

I can assure you, women can definitely be techies and geeks!

But I seriously doubt the LL staff can make a realistic measure of what percentage of Players really are males and which really are females. They can possibly record the trend in gender preferences at sign-up, but that means nothing. And without valid identity verification, what is to prevent a male who is signing up to make a female alt from stating on their sign-up form that they are female in RL, and using a fake female "Real Name"? If they are not signing up for Premium, there is no credit card or other data to validate that name with. And a lot of real names are gender ambiguous. I've met both men and women who shared my given name.

*laughs*

Roughly 1/3 of my alts are males. Does that mean my Player is statistically only 2/3 of a woman?

I thought the post meant that I'm really old.

The tech and gaming sectors are dominated by men. I'm not endorsing that, that's just how it is. Second Life has a much higher percentage of women involved in it than a lot f gaming communities (even if you discount the reported percentages). Look at the FPS gamers, for example. I don't have any studies to back this up, but I'd bet money that a HUGE percentage of the players are male.

He wasn't knocking womens' tech abilities, he was noting that we have a much more representative cross-section of the general public than a lot of platforms do.

lol - Mark Whatshisname said we were marginalized outsiders, now M Linden says we are mainstream. Sheesh, guys! Don't you have staff meetings or something where you can get your danged stories straight?

I have a female RL name in my female premium alt account...

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Aleco

Awww...what fun is that???

Actualy reading it again, he says half the *time* spent in world is by women, not half the Avatars.... guess we just like to shop more.....

NEARLY half, which is LESS THAN 50%

parc did a survey about avatar's age and gender: here are the results:

http://blogs.parc.com/playon/'


As to whether SLers are mainstream, who cares? That is the kind of labeling I despise cause it creates an idea of normal.

Yeah... That "time" bit got my attention... Does he spend half his time as a woman too? (o.o)

? Mark Kingdon IS M Linden. Obviously he's really well immersed in SL, his avatar has a completely different set of opinions from his!

Out of the total *potential* users worldwide (hundreds of thousands? millions?), we have 40-50K that log on daily.

I think that's pretty telling as to how mainstream we are. We aren't. I think that's fairly cool.


/lets his freak flag fly, baby

IMO most of the best content creators and scripters I have met or who's work I happen to come across in SL appear to be women, well at least they have female avs.

I just see it as a statistic.

Dang! I cant get anything by 3Ring today!


Oh! I know... I bet all of Phils Bots are Female and they are twisting the stats! ...Bad Phil!

I've been building computers since 1997 and I play online games, (ok unreal tournament is the only one I really like right now) I'm the official, I dont want to pay the repair shop can you come over and fix it pc tech of my family friends their friends and people they just happen to chat with ...

But, damn if i can't get my vcr to stop flashing... so maybe im not so tech savvy
(ok, in my defence, I live of course in FL and we have a lot of power burps and Im just tired of resetting it)

i'm sorry. i'm unemployed. this has become my job. LOL

I don't think that is what is being said at all, actually.. And god if it aint true.. where are all the men on SL? Go to any venue there is MORE than 50% females. (and yes I'm counting gay men as men, cause.. well they are..)

Humidity is rising - Barometer's getting low
According to all sources, the street's the place to go
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past ten
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining men.

It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! - It's Raining Men! Amen!
I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get
Absolutely soaking wet!
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Men! Every Specimen!
Tall, blonde, dark and lean
Rough and tough and strong and mean

God bless Mother Nature, she's a single woman too
She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do
She taught every angel to rearrange the sky
So that each and every woman could find her perfect guy
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! - It's Raining Men! Amen!
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Men! Ame---------nnnn!

I feel stormy weather / Moving in about to begin
Hear the thunder / Don't you lose your head
Rip off the roof and stay in bed

God bless Mother Nature, she's a single woman too
She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do
She taught every angel to rearrange the sky
So that each and every woman could find her perfect guy
It's Raining Men! Yeah!

Humidity is rising - Barometer's getting low
According to all sources, the street's the place to go
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past ten
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining men.

It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! - It's Raining Men! Amen!
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! - It's Raining Men!

My gift from me to you, its in muh head I hope its in yours to

My bad - I meant Mitch Kapor. I blanked on the name when i did the post. Mitch Kapor gave a keynote address at SL5B where he said that SL was made up of a bunch of marginalized outsiders. He said a lot of other, more interesting things as well, but that remark caught a bunch of flak. They are two different people.

I've pretty much decided to take anything coming out of a Linden's mouth to be nothing but bullshit.

but do you believe anything produced from their fingers?

Even less so