WTF is SL:
Creating an Account
Written by Lou Daines
Creating an Account
Written by Lou Daines
"Second Life is not a game. It is a multi-user, virtual environment. It doesn't have points or scores. It doesn't have winners or losers."
"Oh, it has losers."
~Dwight & Jim, The Office
How to define Second Life? Chat rooms with virtual dolls; a digital never never land; the Matrix? Ready for the fool proof way to create a Second Life and find out for yourself? Stop acting like you're not on the edge of your seat!Well, If you want to play Second Life you should be able to search the official SL website and follow the idiot-proof links to creating an account. If you can’t complete those simple computer tasks, you shouldn’t be playing at all. It only gets way more complicated after the account creation, so for all you computer boobs, this game might not be your cup of tea.
Anyhoo, we’re not calling this blog, SL for geniuses, so for all you poptarts that want to make an account, tried and failed… here you go; you’re very own set of instructions to creating a SL account! Happy reading fooktards! *For instruction purposes I will be creating the alt: LouLouRocks.
To Create a Second Life Account:
1. Go to the official SL website@ http://secondlife.com/ and click the orange, JOIN NOW tab on the top right corner of your computer screen. You’ll be brought to a page where you have to select a username and password. Your name can include 2-31 characters & numbers only. Choose wisely as you won’t EVER be able to edit this name. There is a new feature in SL called display names, which does allow you to give your avatar another name but you’ll always be stuck with your original name for login & chat purposes.
1. Go to the official SL website@ http://secondlife.com/ and click the orange, JOIN NOW tab on the top right corner of your computer screen. You’ll be brought to a page where you have to select a username and password. Your name can include 2-31 characters & numbers only. Choose wisely as you won’t EVER be able to edit this name. There is a new feature in SL called display names, which does allow you to give your avatar another name but you’ll always be stuck with your original name for login & chat purposes.
2. Once you have your name picked out you will need to choose a look for your avatar. SL provides you with a few stereotypical characters; 6 females and 6 males to choose from. However; you aren’t stuck with the avatar forever. Once you are signed into SL, you can completely customize your character with freebies or purchased items from head to toe… literally!
3. You will also need an email address to link to your account. I would suggest making a free one with your new name at Gmail or another like website. Example: loulourocks@gmail.com. That way you won’t inundate your real life Email accounts with SL nonsense.
4. Once you have chosen an email and filled out the last of the info windows all you have to do is click the “Create Account” button on the bottom of your webpage and an activation email will be sent to you.
5. Click the link sent to you and you will be navigated to a page where you can begin downloading the Second Life Viewer. I personally do not use the new SL viewer. I joined back in ’09 when the viewer was a lot simpler. Since then there have been many “Third Party Viewers” that were created that would allow SL gamers to play Second Life without having to use the SL standard viewer. Currently I am using the Phoenix viewer, which can be found at http://www.phoenixviewer.com/.
6. Once the downloading is finished you should be able to click on the newly created "shortcut thumbnail" which will open the log-in screen. Just type in the name and password you have given yourself and you can enter the world of Second Life.
Hopefully that wasn't too painful. If it was; then my advice to you, would be to go watch some porn and go to sleep. It's still a good time and requires way less thinking.
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