Xiyuanbbb Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 Hi everyone, I am a Ph.D. student from Victory University of Wellington😀. I am doing a study on how your virtual experience in SL affects your RL consumption practices/patterns. Could you please share your experience with me😍? If you could share some insightful ideas to me, I can be your girl in SL! Thanks heaps for your help. 🤩🤑🤗 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Deakins Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 (edited) What do you mean by "RL consumption practises/patterns"? Examples? Edited September 18, 2023 by Phil Deakins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid Nagy Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 SL makes my RL a tiny bit cheaper, because it takes a lot of my free time and it is less expensive for me, compared to going to the movies, a football game, the pub or a theater. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 SL is cheaper than long-term therapy! On the other hand, because of SL I may need long-term therapy. 4 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 Most university students have a Google Doc with questions which some fill out and some don't. The forums is a pretty small group of SLers. Hardly enough for a study IMO. 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shireena1 Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 2 hours ago, Xiyuanbbb said: Hi everyone, I am a Ph.D. student from Victory University of Wellington. Uncle Google could not locate that, maybe you could provide a location for us to check it out? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathlen Onyx Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Xiyuanbbb said: Hi everyone, I am a Ph.D. student from Victory University of Wellington😀. I am doing a study on how your virtual experience in SL affects your RL consumption practices/patterns. Could you please share your experience with me😍? If you could share some insightful ideas to me, I can be your girl in SL! Thanks heaps for your help. 🤩🤑🤗 If you want serious answer you might want to refrain from using "I can be your girl" when asking for research data. My answer would be no. Also, excessive use of emoji's tells me a lot. Edited September 18, 2023 by Sam Bellisserian 2 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 8 minutes ago, shireena1 said: Uncle Google could not locate that, maybe you could provide a location for us to check it out? I found a Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 9 minutes ago, Sam Bellisserian said: If you want serious answer you might want to refrain from using "I can be your girl" when asking for research data. My answer would be no. Also, excessive use of emoji's tells me a lot. IKR? An authentic researcher with any knowledge or experience in RolePlay would say something more gender-neutral like, "I can be your female or male companion in RolePlay", and add something relevant to her research such as, "to assist with a deeper level of research for my study". 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid Nagy Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 Don't be too mean folks. We were students once too. At least I was if I remember correctly after all those years. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 (edited) As a Lion in Second Life, my virtual experience of eating people in Second Life has no impact on my consumption of people in Real Life / First Life. Bonus: Since I am a vegetarian in Real Life, my being a Lion in Second Life has no impact on my consumption at all in Real Life. Edited September 18, 2023 by Love Zhaoying 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luna Bliss Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 45 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: As a Lion in Second Life, my virtual experience of eating people in Second Life has no impact on my consumption of people in Real Life / First Life. Bonus: Since I am a vegetarian in Real Life, my being a Lion in Second Life has no impact on my consumption at all in Real Life. hehe...I don't think our OP considered this!! Grasshoppah has much to learn from us..... 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luna Bliss Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 57 minutes ago, diamond Marchant said: 1 hour ago, Love Zhaoying said: a fake post Tend to agree. Or perhaps bait for who knows what. Or they are just having a laugh. Nah...think she's serious. There's a huge education faction in 2nd life -- sometimes I attend their events/meetings. They're interested in how virtual worlds can help their teaching methods and also have a few regions in 2nd life. Some of them make their way to the forum. OP -- find these people inworld who can direct you to places more favorable to your mission. The forum isn't a good place. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qie Niangao Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 Cruel, perhaps, but still I can't help but wonder: In what discipline are PhDs awarded for the study of how SL affects RL consumption? I'm ruling out medicine on the theory that it's not that kind of "consumption", but still… what? Marketing (yet again)? Some tepid backwater of psychology? What? It would take a lot more rigor than a forums survey, but it would be a very practical outcome to find that virtual experience can replace inherently carbon-intensive real life experiences, such as travel.* Of course SL-running computers burn electrons, some not perfectly greenhouse-safe. But if avatar-attached food could replace the wasteful habit of RL eating, think of the carbon we'd save! _____________ *We've all been inculcated in the virtues of travel, how it expands one's perspective, etc., etc., but there are few acts more planet-destroying than boarding an airplane. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luna Bliss Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Qie Niangao said: Cruel, perhaps, but still I can't help but wonder: In what discipline are PhDs awarded for the study of how SL affects RL consumption? I'm ruling out medicine on the theory that it's not that kind of "consumption", but still… what? Marketing (yet again)? Some tepid backwater of psychology? What? Likely marketing I agree, but it would also be useful to understand how our purchasing here might affect purchasing in 1st life. For example, what if 'getting things' in 2nd life would make it less likely to consume unnecessary junk in 1st life. The Earth is warming, and our consumption patterns are a big cause of this warming as well as contributing to the depletion of needed and limited resources, and needs to be reduced. Edited September 18, 2023 by Luna Bliss 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luna Bliss Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 4 hours ago, Xiyuanbbb said: Hi everyone, I am a Ph.D. student from Victory University of Wellington😀. I am doing a study on how your virtual experience in SL affects your RL consumption practices/patterns. Could you please share your experience with me😍? If you could share some insightful ideas to me, I can be your girl in SL! Thanks heaps for your help. 🤩🤑🤗 Click the Etopia tab to connect with others concerned about consumption....and the ISTE tab to connect with those in Education: https://www.virtualwholebrainhealth.org/calwbh/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Persephone Emerald Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 12 minutes ago, Qie Niangao said: Cruel, perhaps, but still I can't help but wonder: In what discipline are PhDs awarded for the study of how SL affects RL consumption? I'm ruling out medicine on the theory that it's not that kind of "consumption", but still… what? Marketing (yet again)? Some tepid backwater of psychology? What? Psychology Sociology Economics Writing a dissertation on a focused subject is part of any PhD program. It's not "awarded" simply for turning in a report. My guess is that this student is trying to take a casual, friendly tone in her request, in order to inspire us with a sense of trust in her. This tactic isn't working very well though. 😉 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moles Dyna Mole Posted September 18, 2023 Moles Share Posted September 18, 2023 Hi, gang! Just a brief reminder to stay on topic and, as usual, try to to maintain an atmosphere of courtesy and respect for others at all times. Yeah, I know it's Monday .... 5 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Nova Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 My Second Life experiences have no impact whatsoever upon real life because one is virtual and the other is real. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aethelwine Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 If it wasn't for SL I doubt I would have bothered to update to a faster internet connection. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Persephone Emerald Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 31 minutes ago, Dyna Mole said: Hi, gang! Just a brief reminder to stay on topic and, as usual, try to to maintain an atmosphere of courtesy and respect for others at all times. Yeah, I know it's Monday .... @Dyna Mole, You might want to cut and paste this response to another thread that's been pretty active over this last weekend. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luna Bliss Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zalificent Corvinus Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 6 hours ago, Xiyuanbbb said: Hi everyone, I am a Ph.D. student from Victory University of Wellington😀. I am doing a study on how your virtual experience in SL affects your RL consumption practices/patterns. Could you please share your experience with me😍? If you could share some insightful ideas to me, I can be your girl in SL! Thanks heaps for your help. 🤩🤑🤗 I find that SL has dramatically increased my RL purchase and use of "Piled Higher & Deeper Student Researcher Repellent". 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marigold Devin Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 6 hours ago, Xiyuanbbb said: Hi everyone, I am a Ph.D. student from Victory University of Wellington😀. I am doing a study on how your virtual experience in SL affects your RL consumption practices/patterns. Could you please share your experience with me😍? If you could share some insightful ideas to me, I can be your girl in SL! Thanks heaps for your help. 🤩🤑🤗 Nothing in Second Life, the actual virtual reality platform, affects my real life consumption practices/patterns. Being here on the Second Life forums sometimes makes me hungry through, and I get through a lot more popcorn than I used to. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luna Bliss Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 2nd life made my 1st life house dirtier, as I'm spending all my time fixing up my 2nd life homes. 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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