Our idea to a get a avatar has sort of not worked due to the fact that we did not register properly. they wanted us to provide a form of ID such as a passport number. after a week of confusion and trying to use the second life website we figured out what to do. we inputed a 'fake' passport number as ID and hoped for the best. to out supprise the fake passport number worked! a message popped up saying this passport number has been checked against goverment records and so on and so on....what bull!! (pardon the french).
If we were real second life users we would be given a false sense of authority into believing we are valid members of this comminity. How can a fake ID pass through a so called goverment checking sytstem without being caught out. We have a basic free account which we are always reminded to upgrade to a paid premium account. Without being a paying member we have no chance to be authenticated against actual records.
How can a website be allowed to do this especially when some of its members are treating this second life as a real life . Some of the members have lost the sense of realism and created a financial losses by investing real money into a virtual banking system.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18842021
the dfinition here that needs to be looked up is VIRTUAL. virtual banking creating REAL losses.
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If we were real second life users we would be given a false sense of authority into believing we are valid members of this comminity.
I'm really not sure I understand this - you are "real" second life users, you've joined the site. What do you mean by a "false sense of authority" or "valid member" - can you explain this?
by ''false sense of authority'' i meant that second like does not think of non paying members as serious ''real life users'' as they are letting us enter with false ID. And ''false sense of authority'' comes from becoming a member without going through a proper ID checking process. Second life users who are non paying members are limited with how far and what we can do. we do not get the umlimited access to resources as paying members so when someone joins like we did, we are not seen a serious useres with limited useage.
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