Which countries are not represented in SL ?

I am innocent... all your fault. I said it before, it is all the fault of the evil hobbit!!!



Morwen.

Innocent, Morwen??

Mandy C

Since my country is not even on the list *looks at join date*, Europe is probably me . I can't say i am surprised since the postal services from other countries can have a hard time sending me mail as well

Ah! there ya go! Mebbe you ought to camp out in Morwen's back yard so we all know where to find you ... before someone gets AR-ed about it!

Erm .. have you got your own shovel and bucket?

Evil hobbit at it again?? *smells conspiracy*


Mandy C

YAY I made it onto the list!

How many people is .001% of SL?

<shakes head> .. I'm gonna get permabanned .. I know I'm gonna get permabanned ... <sulks>

*starts to fill an AR*
Yes, you will... oh yes, you will....

*hands secretly a big pile of L$ to a certain Linden and nods understandingly*


Morwem

Ummm ... .001% of 2-ish million? ... 20 thou .... ooh, almost a whole canton!!

I'm safe if she spells my name as badly as her own

LMAO! That made me spit out my tea!

Mandy C

.001% of 2,615,199 residents is a grand total of 26 people.

Atlantis had Internets way before us all. XD

Ah... you think I have to spell your name.... "That small one... funny ears... big feet... always eating or at least talking about food." They will find you with ease...

(lol... that is what you get when you type a message in front of red traffic light ^^)

MorweN

Now that ... has to be addiction

Hehe... kinda. But with the traffic jams I have been in yesterday, my laptop has been a lot on my lap .

Morwen.

Ah yes ...

I used to be good at maths ... once ...

.. I think it was Tuesday 3rd April 1975 .. about 3.30 pm

Does anoybody know where do I can find these statistics by country updated??

Wow I would have thought India would be a LOT higher. I see people from India (IN India) all the time... I've met a couple of Saudi Arabians too. Interesting! I wish they would update that stuff...

Roughly 200 countries in the world, depending on how you define sovereignty (by some definitions, even the Knights of Malta qualify!). Patience, SL is getting there.

Proposal: International celebratory event by the Lindens when they get at least one person from ALL of them (all right, not necessarily including the Knights of Malta).

I believe that the standard definition of "active" that LL uses is any resident who has logged in at least once in the past 60 days.

Africa is certainly underrepresented in the statistics on secondlife.com. If my memory serves, the only nation south of the Sahara that shows up at all is South Africa.

There might be a slight measurement error. I believe that if you have not supplied payment information, they determine your location by IP address. More isolated areas of Africa are likely to have satellite-based broadband access (not recommended for SL anyway because of high latency, but I suppose it's better than nothing), if they have any form of broadband at all. That's likely to show up as belonging to the country where the satellite provider is based, not the country where the user is located. Getting that right might cause one or two more countries to show up at the bottom of the chart, but I doubt it would make very much difference.

There may also be cultural factors. Here in the US, blacks don't use computers and the Internet as much as whites and Asians do, even when economic factors are accounted for. It is possible that this reflects something in black culture in general, rather than just the culture here in the US. (Or it may not.)

People who present themselves as black are relatively uncommon in Second Life; they do not appear to be represented in the numbers you would expect from their percentage of the population. Some blacks might choose to use avatars that are white, Asian, furry, or something else; I have no way to tell.

I don't know anything about Africa, but I have heard people here in the South say the difference is the result of a kind of cultural conservatism. All things Internet are the Wild Wild West and Second Life is an extreme of that. This can't be a welcoming environment for someone who is traditionally religious. The Black subculture is notable for being the least secular and most religious of any large subculture that I have seen in North America (and I'm including regional subcultures like the Mormons when I say that).

So once economic differences are accounted for, what's left is the cultural conservatism, and that may persist a long time.

Are there any any representatives from Sealand?

It must get pretty dull ( and cold, wet and windy ) on that platform!

http://www.sealandgov.org/

You hit the nail on the head there
I connect from South Africa and most of you 'first world' residents would cringe at what broadband costs here-and the pathetic speeds that quilify as broadband in the first place