Some smart person in my class said she was already busy enough in her life and didn't need to add a second one. I completely agree. Is Second Life cool for people who want to work together on a project in a virtual world when the concrete one isn't feasible? Sure. Can it help to build networks and forge new relationships between people and organizations? Yup. Will it have broad appeal to the masses in the distant future? It could happen. But for now, it just seems irrelevant to the broad spectrum of public, private and academic libraries. Maybe a small business library with a large budget could provide the resources to train a few librarians who are need to use Second Life to work on a very specific problem. Even with that, messing around with avatars, accessories (Samurai swords anyone?) and a semi-real currency system seems like a lot to mess around with without much payoff. I can think of a much more streamlined way to network and forge new relationships without all the hoopla. Old fashioned conferences, video conferencing, Wikis, blogs and this little invention called the phone all work pretty darn well for these sorts of things.
So for now, like my classmate, I'm gonna stick the the life I have right here, right now.
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