Jon, This is true. There is even a SL legend about this. Apparently, early in the world's history there was a monk avatar who walked around not interacting with anyone, but of course created a following =) M On 11/16/06, Jonathan Stern <jonlwstern@gmail.com> wrote:
Jeremy and others,
I'd say the interface itself does not provide a true shared activity, second life is a great place for shared activities, but the simple interface and movement scheme does not echo anything shared for me. A user could very easily use second life and attempt to never truly interact with others while still using a shared activity.
Overall Shared Activity--Conceptually could mean many things but, shared activites are an important and neccessary part of the SL dynamic and I would argue that sharing or communal activities are central to what SL is about.
Sorry for the somewhat not cohesive rant,
Jon
On 11/14/06, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
hmmm, i would argue the opposite. I would say the SL interface, the avatarian embodiment, the world physics with walking, flying and related activities all constitute an overall shared activity. But what do you mean by overall shared activity? On Nov 14, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Mark Bell wrote:
Bonnie,
Just a note. There is no overall shared activity in Second Life.
M
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