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Can Second Life regulate virtual sex? 11:38am on 23 Apr 2009 I blogged about this same question recently:

http://technowaffle.blogspot.com/2009/04/virtual-worlds-are-stuck-in-1994-at.html

In short, I think SL and other Virtual Worlds have not yet come of age... and are currently going through what Gartner calls the 'Trough of Disillusionment' on the Hype Cycle:

http://technowaffle.blogspot.com/2009/04/is-this-end-of-second-life.html

SL, despite all the hype, hasn't reached CriticalMass. It hasn't reached the vast majority of the public. Millions (of Gen Y even) don't know what SL is, let alone have been on it. It is like the Internet in 1994... you go there... and then wonder what you're supposed to do.

SL might not be the Virtual World of choice in the future either, though I think that once the Open-Id and Open-Avatars are sorted out, so that you can jump from one world to another without having to re-create your virtual self every time, then there will be a true growth.

Don't forget Mindark are creating a world for 7 million concurrent users for the Chinese... some of the younger worlds have far more residents than SL.

Which world do you have to go to? SL has more freedom to create than many others... but it has many drawbacks.

Perhaps we need a new Google to enter the space and make everything 100% better and easier (as Google did in 1997-1999ish), to help drive a new level of Internet boom?

In short, SL isn't dead. Yet. But it really needs to make it easier for people to sign-in... e.g. being able to use it through a browser?! And on a mobile device?!

It will come... the question is when, not if.

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