Your Profile: The 2nd Life Pageĭo not click on any part of an avatar to get to the Profile, even your own. So let's have a look at each part of the Profile in turn, starting with the default first page, 2nd Life. The actual use for these pages, though, continues to evolve just as Second Life keeps growing and changing. There are six pages to your Profile, each devoted to a specific type of information. (We will explore Search much more thoroughly later in this chapter.) Click the blue Search button along the bottom of the Second Life window then click the People tab and type the name of the resident into the blank text box near the upper left corner. The easiest way to find a Profile is to find the resident by name using Search. Looking at others' Profiles when they're not standing nearby requires a different strategy. This will open the semitransparent pie menu, and the Profile option is at the center right. If you want to look at your own Profile, or the Profile of somebody standing nearby your avatar, click on the semitransparent oval hanging over his or her head. We will cover Groups in more detail later on in this chapter.) (Titles are assigned by leaders of Groups, and you only receive a title after you join a Group. Sometimes, there is also a second line of text positioned over an avatar's name this is his or her active title. Also the oval-ish semitransparent area hanging over an avatar's head when you're in-world, which displays his or her name. Also known as nameplate, title, and titler, it's not just the combination of first and last names you choose when you register. Your Profile can, and does, reveal a great deal about your personality, your interests, your credibility, and even your general air of friendliness. Or, alternatively, you can make a first impression via your Profile, which is a set of biographical "pages" provided to every resident of Second Life. You can make a first impression in Second Life by walking past another resident. Advertise Yourself: Creating Your Profile
BEST PLACES FOR NEWBIES IN SECOND LIFE HOW TO
Finally, you'll learn how to combine what you put into your Profile with Search results to find entrées into the areas of SL that match your interests. You'll take a good, long look at the single most useful tool in every dimension of Second Life-and that tool is Search.
You'll learn how to create a Profile for yourself that will invite other people to talk to you, and how to spot the stuff of small talk and commonalities in others' Profiles. In this chapter, you will learn how to add the next layer of personality to your avatar and online life, so you will be and feel more approachable. But in some ways, it's more and more of a challenge to make friends. So it's easier than ever to bump into strangers and start a casual conversation.
Right now, as these words are sitting on the page, the total population of Second Life is fast approaching 8 million residents.
0 kommentar(er)
