You know, SL is sometimes really RL, only enlarged.

Love blooms faster, more intense and just as quickly ends. With a big bang or very quitely. Which makes the sadness about that lost love greater.
Traders on the stock exchange market tend to gamble more, companies promise more intrest, and go bankrup of dissapear with your money a lot faster.

Last summer there were two ‘wars’ in the SL design world.
1. There was a lawsuit against someone who had have copied and sold so called ‘Sexgen’ beds.
2. And then there’s the battle against the copying of textures and/or designs of some major fashiondesigners.

Issue 1 was handled neatly according to the law. The owner and designer of the beds hired an detective to find the person behind the avatar and sued him.

No. 2 is different. There is mud thrown, threats are made, and people get banned in certain malls. Various groups are handing out notecards and there’s a lot of gossip in groups IM’s.

What is it that makes people so extreme in second life? Is it the anonymity they experience? Does it give them the feeling they can say and do what they wouldn’t dare or simply just can’t in RL?

I don’t know, I just look at it and feel amazed…

Second Life makes extreme.

I decided to celebrate rezzday doing my favorite thing … SHOPPING!
ETD had a big sale and I scored a lot of new hairstyles (yes, i’m dutch.. we love getting bargains). I also bought several new outfits.

When I came home, I tried all the new stuff and was satisfied.
Now what?
What do I want to do more on my birthday?

After a moment I knew it .. A photo, I want a birthdaypicture. A picture to put next to one of the first SL photos to see how I have grown and changed in the last two years.(well grown… I am still a little brat compared to most players). I sent my friend / photographer / artist Zebra DaSilva (the author of ThatSLife and video on howslife) an IM.

Would you maybe, Do you want? Yes of course! Come on over!

YEAH!! My first real photo shoot in SL! After much fiddling and hassle (Zebra is a perfectionist), the pictures were ready.
The result? Jawdropping drooling good …

See here … The evolution of Shonique Shilton!

January 2008

The 16th of January was my second rezzdag ..
2 years, that’s my age now …
2 years i’m walking, running and flying around in Second Life.

2 years is a nice time to reflect …
I have seen a lot, experienced much more and done a lot…

2 years ago i logged in.
My name was quickly elected, so was my avatar.
Orientation Island said nothing, I can’t at least remember little about it.

Finding a Dutch speaking person was equivalent to finding a needle in a haystack. The number of visitors half of what it is today.
My favorite places were the Welcome Area, that tacky place in Amsterdam (god we had a blast) and The Garden. My friends were all American.

Bit by bit the dutch came into the game and little by little they made SL their own .

Now two years later, a lot has changed, for the good and bad.

I still have fun, but now I keep more distance.

Friendship is fine .. A deeper friendship also, but I no longer give myself completely. I have seen too many friendships go to hell.

When you age in your FL you don’t want to hear about it. When you age in Second Life you’re proud.

I think I’ll stay in Second Life just a bit longer….
Like to celebrate my 5th anniversary one day

Why another blog?

I blog in Dutch, have an hyves profile in Dutch en write reviews in Dutch. But now some of my friends are complaining. They can’t read Dutch because they aren’t Dutch. Still they want to know about my adventures in Second Life. They want to read my thoughts and like to comment.

So i’ve decided to translate some of my blogs in English. Since English isn’t my native language some words or sentences won’t be correct. But hey… you wanted me to do, so don’t complain!

For those of you who don’t know shit about me… read the ‘Who’s Shonique Shilton’. Still have questions? Ask!

greetings Shonique Shilton