Psychology of AVs?

I knew that John Norman's books were popular, but I had no idea that there were people who took them as an instruction manual.

Actually the Gorean community has been around almost since the beggining of chat communities. It thrived in placed like IRC, Chatro, Yahoo chatrooms, etc. In some ways written chat areas works better for it then SL.

As for manga, hentai, neko, Kitsune etc. Is it a generational thing? I would have never been introduced to it if my children (now young adults) had not brought it to my attention.

I think peoples avatars what ever form they choose can have so much meaning. They are works or art, statements on life, spiritual/philosophical expressions etc

My friend always calls internet socializing as a post modern phenomenon . It's hard to put your thumb on exactly what it is, but there's something pretty meaningful going on for a lot of people...

If anyone knows the writer Phillip K Dick, he wrote a short story about some people who had to live underground and ended up playing with dolls and ultimately interacting via them. I think it was called Perky Pat or something like that, was 20 years ago I read it.

But how many people have avatars of both genders?

Another reason it's not quite the same question.

I have a few female accounts and a male account.

My alt is a genderless and characterless shiny black ball. It did enter SL as a male newbie and was allowed to experience SL as such for about half an hour before its cruel conversion to an inanimate object! Now it just sits on my groups as an insurance against them folding and it logs in about once a month for less than 5 minutes to sit motionless on my sky platform doing nothing.

I have an alt that is for banking and holding groups, I'd love a realistic animal skin for it. If I had the download available, I'd let it live permanently on my land and build stuff for it.

Best animal avatar in SL:



(in my humble opinion, of course)

Thank you Argent, he's a great dog, kinda like an Australian dingo. I'm going to have a look inworld tonight.

When the prof gets done with them--if he or she is doing his/her job--the students learn plenty . . . if nothing else but that laziness does not pay.

The analogy is not applicable . . . and does nothing to advance your argument. . . and your sarcasm is ineffectual.

Surveys and survey research in the classroom typically are harmless activities--no lives are threatened, no huge sums of money lost, no catastrophic destruction occurs, etc. and no one outside the classroom is forced to participate.

I <3 this post, and I agree with it so much. There's a lot of content in those lines, and between them.

I think virtual interaction will only increase in years to come. I also think it will be a haven for the autistic children as they grow up and autism is at a record high (some call it 'epidemic') so that will also increase numbers of virtual residents (in whichever virtual world survives by then).

I want to read that story.

Thanks so much, I agree with autistic kids, it could be a very special space. I've found "The days of Perky Pat" and will drop you a copy in world.