How To Save Money From Paying Rent: Store ALL Your Junk On Second Life

When I first heard of Second Life, I thought that humanity had been set back. For instance, take a quick read of the article "Even In A Virtual World 'Stuff' Matters". In the article the woman mentions how she has 31,540 items that she owns. Virtual world or not, who needs all that junk? Seriously. And here I was and thought I had enough garbage in my room. But to clog servers?

That sounds PERFECT! Think about it for 10 seconds and pretend I'm being serious...how cool would that be? I could save so much money and live in a box! My other box will store all my stuff. Or maybe, I could even create an alter-ego and pretend to be innocent? Or I could pretend to be a creepy stalker? Or I could be nice (no pretending here)?

The more I think about it, it really does seem kind of neat, regardless of how cynical I come off as. The pretend Anshe Chung won the money I should have, and became the first Second Life millionaire. (An article describing what should have been me can be found at "Second Life's First Millionaire") Well, that seems pretty slick.

Second Life provides a means for being something your not. Basically, think of Facebook/Myspace on steroids. You create a 3D animated character to play yourself and then you run around doing things you would normally in life: lie, cheat and deceit. And shop. There is plenty of shopping. It does have a cool interface with Web 2.0 integration and video plugins. My favorite point: you need to build up your street credibility. Street credibility is translated into spending time on the website, which means that CLEARLY you can do one of my favorite things in the world: PROCRASTINATE!

All things aside, procrastination is the perfect tool in my book for making it through school. Another "nice" feature that intellectuals tell me about is that thing that I rarely do...."learning" I think it is? Well, "learning" aside, Second Life's grade? A-! Remember the whole "I'm a college student" part? Yah, $10/month is kind of expensive...still though, it does seem kind of cool and if I had someone funding me I'd "consider" joining...If it was FREE, then I'd give SL an A+...anyone want to fund me?


Boss, Shira. "Even in a Virtual World, ‘Stuff’ Matters." New York Times 09 Sept 2007 27 Sept 2007

Hamilton, Chuck. "Fast Talk: Getting A [Second] Life." Fast Talk: Getting A [Second] Life. Feb 2007. Fast Company.com. 27 Sep 2007 .

Hof, Rob. "Second Life's First Millionaire." Business Week 26 Nov 2006 27 Sept 2007 .

"Second Life In 3600 Seconds." Second Life In 3600 Seconds. April 2007. 27 Sep 2007 .