A marvelous article by Frank Rose about the world of Second Life:
“There’s the question of what people do when they get there. Once you put in several hours flailing around learning how to function in Second Life,there isn’t much to do. That may explain why more than 85 percent of the avatars created have been abandoned. Linden’s in-world traffic tally,which factors in both the number of visitors and time spent,shows that the big draws for those who do return are free money and kinky sex.”
“Each processor on Linden Lab’s servers can handle a maximum of only 70 avatars at a time;more than that and the service slows to a crawl,some avatars disappear,or the island simply vanishes.”
“”By September,it was crazy,”says Giff Constable,an investment banker who joined Electric Sheep after falling in love with Second Life. “A lot of people who missed MySpace said,‘You know what? We shouldn’t let that happen again.’”
Read all the article at WIRED MAGAZINE:ISSUE 15.08 
