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Valleywag on Second Life Population

February 14, 2007 |

Clay Shirky has done a nice analysis of the data published by Linden Labs last week.

Especially, he points out that very few users have spend more than 40 hours in the world, which is actually very little if you think about it. Here is the real crux, though:

This is the question the press should be asking — “How many of those users from 2006 have logged in recently?” Linden won’t answer, of course, but it might be interesting to hear how they square the invisibility of the one population number that actually affects user experience with their stated goal of transparency and openness.

That’s exactly it. If I were a Second Life citizen (which I am not), I couldn’t even assume that anybody I talk to today would ever come back tomorrow. That’s not a good way of building a community. Judging form the data then, there is a die-hard group of people hanging out in SL, but what that usually means is that the casual users is going to fell left out.

And who needs a second life anyway?

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