Second Life is Getting Social
I’m already in love with Second Life’s new Social Network. Why? Because everyone is in it already, there’s no need to ask your friends to join an external social network anymore, It has all the potential to succeed because it can’t fail. It already has what all social networks dream: people.
It still needs a few additions but I’m already more attracted to it than to Facebook or even Twitter because it’s right in the Viewer and it can post to those social networks automatically, but I have a huge wish list for it:
Image Sharing
They could Implement it into the already working Snapshot system and maybe replace postcards with that since they stopped working properly for ages.
Web Groups
I Imagine that Linden Lab will work on the Groups the same way they did with Profiles, They could have more of a “Wall” for all of what we call notices today by turning them into Posts, removing the needs for most attachments like Images or so.
Ecosystem
Revamp the Events system and Integrate it with Web Groups, Profiles and even the Little Location sharing system we currently have on Status Updates. This way we would have a Social Network that has all the things we want from a Real Life ones without getting deleted and with everyone on them by default. I could Imagine myself signing up for an event via a group Invitation and sharing it with my friends, and when I arrive at the place making a Check-in in my Profile’s Timeline. Check-ins could also Improve the current “What’s Hot” Event list on the Login Screen and so on.
I’m really excited about the possibilities of this new Social Aspect we’ve never had before and I hope Linden Lab won’t leave it how it is today and improve it and hopefully make my Wish list a reality. There are other things like Mobile Apps for this but i think It’s a bigger priority to have a more useful system.
You know that idea for postcards would totally rule. Same with groups. Hell its all good, the lab should pay you for your ideas. At least when you give suggestions they are actually suggestions unlike most of the comments being pasted on linden profiles lately.
Thanks, maybe a JIRA wouldn’t hurt on that, although I feel this things are imminent and that they are already on the works.
Glad to see you back pal, and of course your Wish List is awesome. Yes, that comes from me, even though I am using what you call a “griefer viewer” (Firestorm for those without a clue), lol. Regardless to the fact, it’s Viewer 2 and I am glad that I finally made the switch from predated versions of the Second Life viewer. Honestly, the social network, if it were to include many or all of those aspects you suggested, it would have a great toll on other networks… we [avatars] walk in many numbers, so just think what could happen if most would finally come to adopt this.
[...] Linden Lab bought and Killed “Avatars United”, which was a pretty big social network for many Virtual Worlds and MMO’s, they also Just released web Profiles for Viewer 2 that Include Status Updates “Friends Suggestions”, which is some sort of a small Social Network that will probably kill the need of any other Network. (Check out my blog post on what It could potentially do to kill this market too) [...]