A pic of Really Fluffy having a good time

Interested PhD student - Bonnycastle Myriam

SHe's from U of Buffalo - interested in SecondLife too

her class is also playing the game

Jerry Fluffy as a girl

Great scenery too - all built by SL members

Some interesting places to explore

From Mc Fluffy

This is Columbia (239, 108, 27)



and this is Cecropia (125, 232, 30)

Sara as a guy

Zacq Fluffy as "a vixen"

Mike's POV

Is it possible to study Second Life and not be a participant-observer? Why or why not?

First off I considedr a participant-observerer one is is actively involved in the game. This is what I consider our class. We are members of the game who are learning all we can about the game, while at the same time we are collecting data. We do not seperate ourselves from the games, but instead we do our best to become a productive member of the game.
A passive-obserrver would be someone who has never been invovled with the game, similiar to many of us in the begining of the semester. A person who has never interacted with the game, and only knows stuff about the game through readings weither online or in a book. A passive oberserver has no interaction with the players, they collect data through surverys and video or visual obersvations. They look at the game through a glass wall.

I believe that the only way you can study Second Life is as a participant-observer. From my interactions in the game thus far, I have learned enormous amounts from the Second Life community. This knowledge is not something that could have been read through a book or an online article. This knowledge could only be formed through personal expereinces in the game. Without such knowledge an observatiosn could not be fully understood Second Life and the obdservations that you are making. By being an active member in Second Life and a participant observer you can fully understand Second Life and you will then be able to make better notes and observations on the game and the other participants.

Also, in the mater of collecting information and data, it is important that one be a member of the game to collect such data. There is no other logical way to collect Second Life data than to be a participant observer who can talk to anyone who is in the game. There are onyl two other logical ways to think of collecting data. You could walk through Second Life and not talk to any other people in the game. You could just observe the actions of the other members of the community. However, since you would not be invisible others could try to interact with you. While you could simply avoid suchs occurances, once one of these occurances has occured are you still just an oberserver, or have you now turned into a participant obers. Another way I thought of too colklect data would be a website or blod where users posted and updated on events and activities that they were involved in in the game. This however, would not a very reliable source because you would not get opinions from all users. And you may get a few users updating alot thus giving you inaccurate results.

These are just my ideas sorry if they suck. You guys should post your own so I can comment and get some credit

TouchMy Fluffy as a Woman

its totally different being a girl and its really hard cause i want to act like a guy but than
people would know. Also probably less than an hour after i finished my
change into a woman just random guys began to talk to me and i was even
asked to have sex. I was so amazed by the way the guys treat woman on
second life i really had no idea it was like this.

Jessie Fluffy as a guy

Bridgetis Fluffy as a guy

Mikedgo as a Girl

Sonam Fluffy as a boy

To get ya started

Here's a picture of me turning into a guy - i decided to go with green hair - that may change over hte next couple of days. I discovered that you can use your textures as hair. So - if you want some textures let me know. I have a bunch.

A photo of Cassie in the classroom setting

A snapshot of Really Fluffy

Taken during class on Friday

2 of Bridgetis Fluffy

A distant shot in the orientation island


A close-up view

A portrait of Zacq FLuffy

One student's observation about first weeks on SL

I've noticed some very weird things going on in second life. The bulk of
the people that I've encountered have been pretty open to talking to
people that they don't know. On several occasions, I've received or sent
IMs to people and have had good conversations with them. I assume that
since the people are only intereacting through text, there's no reason to
be afraid of anything, and in theory you can pretend to be whoever you
want to be. If I wanted to be a 30 year old woman (not that I want to
be), I could and no one would know the difference. I think that the IM
feature is a little different than AIM because in second life your info is
out in the open and you expect to hear from random people and intereact
with them. If some random person IMed me on AIM, I would be kinda freaked
out because that's my personal account and I don't give that information
out to people that aren't my friends. I've also noticed that a lot of the
people on second life are really into a digital sense of meeting people.
Most of them have blogs or Myspace accounts to which the provide links in
their personal info on SL. I was chatting with a 30 year old registered
nurse from Washington state last night while playing slingo. I asked her
what she found so interesting about SL and she said that it was just fun
in general to be able to shop and create a person that she feels like
inside, but isn't necessarily her. In an essence, it's an escape from
real life. None-the-less, still freaks me out a little.

Picture of Cldye Fluffy

A pic of Katee Fluffy

Picture of TOuch My FLuffy

POsted by Kim for Mr. Touch My Fluffy

Mikedgo Fluffy

I am bad at this I have tried for 2 hours and still stink, but just imagine they look like me.

2 more avatar pics

Pics of Extremely Fluffy

Another Avatar Pic

Here's one of Jerry Fluffy

Another avatar pic

pictures from the game

Here's 2 pics of Jessie Fluffy. A nice full body and close-up combination.

Names in the Game

Real World Second Life
Kim Gregson Kim Gretzky

Rand Geiger Cldye Fluffy
Ryan Mauk Chewy Calamari
Sara Venturi Sara Fluffy
Zach Downes Zacq Fluffy
Chris Wilson Extremely Fluffy
Mike Demarest Mikedgo Fluffy
Craig Reid Jerry Fluffy
Jessie Roth Jessie Fluffy