Insulting or not?

Hmmm. Let's see. Half the people in RL are women. Half the people in SL are women.

Can't
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I guess he thinks women don't play computer games. Women don't play GTA or Quake Arena much, but women have been playing MMO's for ages.

You're reading it wrong too, 3Ring.

It means that:

- Half the people are 30's or older, the other half are 30's or younger.

- Nearly half the TIME spent in RL is by women. There could be twice as many men if the average women spends twice as much time in SL than the average man.

But you're right that it doesn't imply that they're not techy. In fact, his stats don't support his premise at all. If they're just additional stats, fine. If he's trying to use them to prove a point, he's missing the mark.

If you are in SL and claiming that people in SL are marginalized outsiders, aren't you also implicating yourself?

I'm not sure that occured to him. I think it was a case of foot in mouth syndrome. Someone should have vetted his speech for him.

As for me, I couldn't care less. Marginalized outsider, mainstream citizen, whatever. Nothing they say changes who I am.

The data says that women play SL, but the stereotype is that men living in mom's basement are the ones into games. I sincerely doubt that he believes the stereotype, but he has to put it out there because it makes SL look good. Hey, we've got WOMEN too!

Just the thing to bring more men who live in Mom's basement....

Got em all already.

They are working on the attic over the garage types now.

75% of all statistics are made up

and average age is 30's which means I am above average!! oh wait... is that a good thing in this case?

amen!

Female geek, too, but the fact hasn't escaped me that I'm usually a minority among my peers. My "peers" are usually delighted with my gender, so it's not been a problem in real life. My gender can result in annoyances in on-line games, probably because there are more adolescents than I encounter on-the-job. But what the heck, adolescents are generally annoying to all adults. There are exceptions, of course, just like there are exceptions to geeks being male.

So I don't fault M.Linden for the implied assumption that "tech-savvy early adopters or gamers" generally tend to be young males. It's probably accurate. As a "geek", I value accuracy more than warm fuzzies like being politically correct.

I do question his data about time spent in world by women. Unless he's referring to female avatars. He's right, if he's talking about female avatars. In on-line games generally, there a lot more real life males playing female characters than vice versa. While that pretty much refutes "penis envy" theories, it's not an accurate indicator at all about how many real life women are playing.

I posted to that blog and my entry was not posted up. There was no profanity in it, no offence in it, but there were some observations about business practice in relation to my own experience in dot com land.

Hmmm.

Also the posts were numbered and cross referenced out of sequence.

I'll say here what I said there, in a nutshell - "Churn" might be over, but unless they pull their finger out in relation to Customer Support for the little people (yes, mighty estate owners, I include you Concierge people since you are just individuals not Corporate millions) then they can get in as many big spenders as they like, people simply won't stay.

Guess this was not a popular view.

PS - I think the stats for whether players are female or not stems from that annoying set of questions which popped up on login. WRONG AGAIN LL. What you are seeing there is that women are more likely to answer than men. Most men I know just closed the window.

I realise I am not stereotypical. Never played ANY MMOs, didn't much enjoy Quake Arena (or any shooters online) but I do play GTA. Still prefer Vice City. Also love Half Life, Deus Ex ...

There is no way the can verify gender at login?
Do they ban people for not revealing their legal genders?
Just curious
My first guy wasn't tech savy and was born in 2003 nor does he have
same gender info he had then.

The account originally wasn't created with my payment details, and you can choose to change gender so, no. I think these stats are hogwash, based on the "Are you the same gender as your avatar".

Gender thing for me needed to be changed but that is another story.
And it isn't really one else's business really unless it something I tell them but its not something I hide either at least in SL.
I really don't want to be marketing statistic when it comes to my gender personally.
There is more then two genders whether anyone wants to make it official is another story so it is easier to pick the easiest or the one the closely appear to be or define themselves as for most people, including myself.

No, you're not banned if you don't reveal your true gender. Even the age verification is no proove, since it just checks if the number entered is a valid number. There are generators for german passport numbers and the number I entered for my female account with the female RL name was the one of my real, male, passport, so they aren't checked against the name.

The name did not even have to match the name of the credit card holder.

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Nothing actually has to match. This is the irony. But you know, personally, I'm glad that's the case no matter what risks it brings. The day we're all fitted with a microchip, and all communication is handled by Government ... is a dark day for humanity.

Of course, Lil' Lady!

Men let women be tech savvy all the time! We let you use the stove, the kitchen sink. As for Early Adopters, there was the microwave!

Nope, Cherry, I don't think you will ever be stereotypical.

But its the TV remote that truly matters