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There's been a fair amount of talk around the office these days about NIH offering health information in additional venues to their regular websites. One of these such venues is Second Life. The thinking is that folks will be seeking medical information online in that forum and would benefit from their presence there.

I wanted to ask all of you since this group has experience looking for medical information online. I am personally not a "Second Lifer" and would rather come to a forum like this coupled with ordinary websites for medical information but I'm curious how the rest of you feel. Do YOU have a Second Life?

Thanks,
Ruth
 
What is "NIH" ? Are you going to use my answers without my okedoke?:D Will my answers contribute to your personal gain???:D :cool: :D

Really, I don't have a clue what you are asking??

Tom
 
Well, I know from my past life in healthcare that NIH is National Institute of Health, but I still don't know what Second Life means. I guess that I don't have one! I'm doing pretty good to keep up with my current life!
 
My "second life" is dressing up in black leather and riding my Harley through small towns scaring people :D :D :D

.....oh you mean the virtual game (see link) where you create an Avatar character on-line in a virtual world and play out your "second life"......I don't play. I have a hard enough time coping with my first life.

http://secondlife.com/
 
Second Life is an online virtual community. No I don't have one either. I can barely handle my first life, so no I don't think that it will help me for NIH to have a presence there.
 
I thought you meant

I thought you meant

Second Wife, and I was thinking, NOT!

Seriously, I'm stymied by Second Life.... never heard of it. Guess I'll ask my computer geek/doctoral student nephew.
 
Sorry all, I'll be more clear. NIH is the National Institutes of Health where I work as a contractor doing computer work. I had not heard of Second Life either until somebody at work mentioned it to me. I can barely keep up with my first life and so no, I don't wander about in a virtual world doing whatever those folks are who do. Maybe I just don't 'get it' or maybe this is all for the younger set. Even if I were to enter into a virtual world to do whatever, that whatever wouldn't be to search for medical information it would be I suppose to socialize in some way.

No, I won't profit from any answers I was just curious if I was out of the loop in a profound way. It struck me as unusual maybe that a big government agency like NIH was paying attention to Second Life to the degree they were when I hadn't even *heard* of it. So, I was wondering if I was behind the times in not participating in any way in this community and I was starting to wonder if everyone but me was. I live with 2 teens who are constantly reminding me that I just fell off the turnip truck...... :) Honestly, I just finally used UTube for the first time recently..... :eek:
 
Well, I'll sign up if it promises to GIVE me a second life. This one is awesome and I'm certain another one would be just as wonderful!!!! :D :D

As for your teenage sons, I'm frankly surprised that they even know what a turnip is??? Pretty old-fashioned vegetable. ;)

Are we sure it isn't just another ploy for the government to look in on us??

Marguerite
 
Is this man cheating his wife

Is this man cheating his wife

This is from an article from the WSJ....for those who are considering having a "second life"...

He's never met the woman outside of the computer world of Second Life, a well-chronicled digital fantasyland with more than eight million registered "residents" who get jobs, attend concerts and date other users. He's never so much as spoken to her on the telephone. But their relationship has taken on curiously real dimensions. They own two dogs, pay a mortgage together and spend hours shopping at the mall and taking long motorcycle rides. This May, when Mr. Hoogestraat, 53, needed real-life surgery, the redhead cheered him up with a private island that cost her $120,000 in the virtual world's currency, or about $480 in real-world dollars. Their bond is so strong that three months ago, Mr. Hoogestraat asked Janet Spielman, the 38-year-old Canadian woman who controls the redhead, to become his virtual wife.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118670164592393622.html
 
I think this is wrong venue to ask about 2nd Life. Most of us here are busy squeezing what we can out of the extra life we've been blessed with. Personally, I find the computer to be a tool to get on, get what I need, and get off. There's real stuff to do. As to paying real dollars to buy virtual stuff - - I just don't get it. Then again, I'm over 40 (way over) and look at it differently than my kids do. (They don't have 2nd lives either - again their 1st one keeps 'em busy.)
 
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