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The logic behind this belief is simple: most people who try Second Life donвЂ™t like it. Such niches can be profitable (an argument I made in theВ MeganicheВ article), but they wonвЂ™t, by definition, appeal to a broad cross-section of users.

With those assertions covered, I am asking myself two things: will Second Life become a platform for a significant online population? And, second, what can Second Life tell us about the future of virtual worlds generally?Д¬oncerning popularity, I predict that Second Life will remain a niche application, which is to say an application that will be of considerable interest to a small percentage of the people who try it.

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Nothing I could say about their experience in Second Life, pro or con, would matter to those users.

As I have said in other forums, and will repeat here, passionate users are a law unto themselves, and rightly so. Second, there are many interesting things going on in Second Life.Any claim about Second Life derived from a count of Residents is not to be taken seriously, and anyone making claims about Second Life based on those figures is to be regarded with skepticism. First, LindenвЂ™s Residents figures are methodologically worthless.Because of the number of themes involved in discussions of Second Life, itвЂ™s easy to end up talking at different levels of abstraction, so let me start with two core assertions, things that I take as background to my part of the larger conversation: BethвЂ™s post will appear atВ , and HenryвЂ™s is atВ . Since Henry Jenkins, Beth Coleman, and I are all writing about Second Life and because we like each otherвЂ™s work, even when (or especially when) we disagree, weвЂ™ve decided to all post something on Second Life today. Introduction: This post is an experiment in synchronization.

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