Comments on: Adults on the Teen Grid

By: Caboose Enfield

Caboose Enfield — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:43:10 +0000

I think that the adults on the teen grid are a good thing. Katharine has a good point with them being able to go to each others islands though. Alot of them should be able to at least view other sim’s like theirs. Maybe it will help with the tidying up of their own sims. Maybe it wont. Who knows, but seriously adults doing educational projects is what needs to be done, alot of the islands are abused and need some teaching for the new players to help make the game a friendlier place. Cause right now the whole Teen gird is full of noobs who wish to just shootup everyone. I actually had someone try to mug me! How does that work? ‘Give me all your money!’ ‘NO!’ What are they going to do? Shoot me? So then im returned to my home. Congrats i still didnt give you money.

Everyone at my school misses the point of Second Life, But i guess thats how it works. Few people get the idea.

By: Mariel

Mariel — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:09:03 +0000

Sometimes humanity disappoints me.

Especially when they act out of commercial interests.

By: Mariel

Mariel — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:26:13 +0000

*Blinks at the amount of comments.*

I think it’s time I consider the whole RSS Feed thingy.

Eh, sorry for going off topic.

By: Katharine Berry

Katharine Berry — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:23:55 +0000

I know they're doing so. I was sent the email too. And I don't have a C in my name either. That's my sister's name.

By: Kevin Jarrett

Kevin Jarrett — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:46:28 +0000

Hi again Katharine (Not ‘Catharine’),

Congrats – your posting and input have made a difference:

http://tinyurl.com/2wnbuz

The teen grid is being redesigned thanks to your input (and others as well).

Thanks for starting (and staying in) this conversation.

-kj-

By: Tabitha Gkid

Tabitha Gkid — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:04:11 +0000

Hi Katharine,

This was extremely useful to learn about how you, as a teen and SL resident, feel about the different sims out there owned by adults. One day, and hopefully soon, myself and others at Global Kids will be allowed to visit other adults-owned sims, but for now I am pretty happy staying on GK Island and meeting teens from all over the world.

It is no “piece of cake” as I’ve learned throughout the last 6 months where we’ve hosted events, contests, panels, live audo/video streams, etc, on Global Kids Island, so from my perspective, we can come up with ideas, and a strucuture, but ultimately nothing can be accomplished without teens participation and teens support.

As my 16 year old sister says about adults on the teen space, there are people on it for gaming reasons, and that’s it, and those who just have nothing better to do, so why not get something educational out of it. If you don’t like them, don’t go, and if you do, go, got nothing to lose.

By: Stan Trevena

Stan Trevena — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:42:45 +0000

I would ask that any teen on the Teen Grid that feels that the private islands run by adults should be banned should go and look at what the islands are for before passing judgement on them.

The private islands on the Teen Grid contribute to the revenue stream that supports the operation of the Teen Grid (that’s not a bad thing). The islands have to have a teen-centric purpose to be there at all. And as was already stated, our islands are basically islands unto themselves. The adults there cannot leave the islands (nor can the teens), and nobody can come to the islands. Our users log directly into and out of the private islands. And all adults are put through a background check. The one in Japan can take upwards of a month to get through.

The PacRimX Islands provide a place for foriegn exchange students from Japan and California to spend a year together, building friendships, sharing in their cultures, and collaborating on building out the islands. After the year they travel to the other’s country and meet all of their new friends in real life. Their time on the island replaces the first few awkward days that now exist when students from two very different countries are suddenly standing face to face, having never met before.

These islands are all about teens. The adults fund the project, and are there to gently nudge the activities on the island in the direction of the stated goals.

No virtual world is perfect. I don’t particularily enjoy having to traverse the red light districts on the Main Grid, I also don’t like having to navigate around the various commercial islands that are private on the Main Grid. Second Life is a reflection of real life, and not a Utopia (yet). Until the grids are distributed/licensed, and you can teleport between them, we will have to put up with the hodgepodge patchwork of areas and residents that have varying interests on both grids.

If you want to read about the PacRimX project you can check our blog at http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com

By: The Story of My “Second Life” » Weekly Progress Report

The Story of My “Second Life” » Weekly Progress Report — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:10:48 +0000

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By: Katharine Berry

Katharine Berry — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:38:01 +0000

Try looking at this post about the grids.

By: Creven Alonzo

Creven Alonzo — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:57:39 +0000

I like the way you are thinking but I don’t think seperate grids works and I do believe the grids should combine, only reason being that it would help alot. I don’t want to make people leave and go to this game but I play The Sims Online as well and they don’t have seperate places and they have I believe 10 – 13+ year olds in there. Yes the younger ones can get rather annoying but this game only permits teens so you won’t have to worry about it. So, on with my idea, lets say we combine the two and we ask for parental permissions to go to mature regions and we have parental controls. That would make it so that teens can interact with the adults and like you said, the majority think that they are not bothing them in the least and combining the grids together would keep that same effect. What would you say to that?