Article found at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/11/web-entrepreneu.html.
Second Life users are creating Obama shirts and selling them to other users. How cool! What a creative way to make money AND show support for the presidential elect. This is another example of how second life users incorporate real life into the site. It's amazing how much users can do.
I wonder what other clothing is popular in second life? I've seen a lot of "punk" attire in doing my own exploring. Has anyone else noticed any trends?
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Interesting! Great catch, Krystle!
I too have noticed a lot of "punk" attire, or band related attire. The funniest avatar I "met" was a short woman, who probably, if real, would be about 5'2 and 400 pounds. I am not trying to point out someone for being obese, but this woman looked like a circle, like the bratty girl in the original "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" when she ate the blueberry. But the worst part, she was wearing a black tini-bikini and had a huge green mohawk. I think some people just try to create to goofiest looking person they can, while others try to make this perfect looking person.
I've noticed things like that, too. Recently on SL, I met a girl with, seriously, the BIGGEST butt ever! Like, scary big. I only noticed when I was standing near her and went to walk around behind her and got stuck. It took me a second to figure out that it wasn't the computer screwing up but her avatar's butt. Now, just like Dana mentioned, I don't think there's a problem with plus-sized tushies or plus-sized anything, but I kind of thought that the person behind the avatar just did it to be funny because the rest of it was all slim. I think it could be construed as a little offensive.
That is an interesting find. But I was wondering something. I've read about how people create businesses on Second Life and are getting paid. Are they actually getting paid real world money or is this fake Second Life money?
Linden dollars trade against the U.S. dollar, so it is real money either way. In other words, you have to spend "real" U.S. dollars to acquire Linden dollars at whatever the current exchange rate is, so they are worth whatever the current trading rate is of Linden to U.S.
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