Second Life: The Infomercial (excerpt)Second Life is an awesome place where you can unleash your creativity after it was repressed in childhood, deal with your emotional pains and trauma from failed relationships, learn useful skills to enrich your existence, and do a lot of badass stuff that simply isn't possible in the "real world". Apparently, you can even make money. Some make a living. A big living, which isn't just about money, but happiness too. Sound too good to be true? It's not. I'm living the dream, and so can *you*.
Friendly greetings! I'm Torley. I'm not just a member — as we call ourselves, Residents — I also work for the company that made Second Life, Linden Lab. But we're not the only makers. Second Life is severely prone to what geeks call "user-created content", which is another way of saying: *you* create the world you live in. Whether it's outfitting your avatar (the virtual version of you) in stylin' threads, shooting the shittake with newfound friends, landscaping a tropical resort, or as I've done, making a ...