{"id":4410,"date":"2018-05-07T11:14:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T16:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zoha-islands.com\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2018-05-07T11:14:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T16:14:59","slug":"sl-user-age-trends-and-new-official-instagram-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/sl-user-age-trends-and-new-official-instagram-account\/","title":{"rendered":"SL User\/Age Trends and New Official Instagram Account"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Linden Lab announced on April 25th, 2048 that is has jumped on the social media bandwagon with an official instagram account.\u00a0 Instagram is a very popular source for photo and content sharing and this is definitely exciting news for photographers\/content creators as an additional avenue to be featured via SL Official!<\/p>\n

From LL Desk<\/a>: “We’re excited to announce that we’ve opened up a new social media channel for Second Life. Since we’re turning 15 this year – we decided that we’re mature enough to be trusted with an\u00a0Instagram account<\/a>. Head on over, follow us, and we’ll be sharing some fun things there. Check out our first post now!”<\/p>\n

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Another fascinating post found in NWN this week.\u00a0 Something I’ve sort of noticed for quite some time as I see the growing number of pioneer SL residents die down – and the 12-13-14 yr account becoming more and more scarce.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Pictured above: SL demographics\u00a0as reported by Linden Lab in 2008<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Why does Second Life keep getting hundreds of thousands of new user sign-ups, while it’s monthly userbase refuses to grow?\u00a0Longtime SLer David Cartier makes a point<\/a>\u00a0I hadn’t quite considered:<\/p>\n

I’ve been seeing a fairly large number of new accounts, lately, where the driver clearly doesn’t have a fricking clue what they are doing, so we are seeing at least SOME new people. I’ve also known quite a lot of people who’ve simply died over the years. That has to be affecting the numbers just as much as getting tired of receiving the friendly – and yet dreaded – “Wow you’re really OLD!!!” IMs. Given the generally older user base I’m guessing that is going to trend upwards in the future.<\/p>\n

That is true. The last time Linden Lab reported SL user demographics in 2008, 15% of the population were over 45, and 23% were between 35-44 in age. (See chart above.) Ten years later, any of those users who are still in Second Life are in their 40s, 50s, 60s, even 70s and 80s. And the reality is, a small but significant percentage are, sadly, going to pass away every year. (Including pioneers like Lumiere Noir<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Linden Lab announced on April 25th, 2048 that is has jumped on the social media bandwagon with an official instagram account.\u00a0 Instagram is a very popular source for photo and content sharing and this is definitely exciting news for photographers\/content creators as an additional avenue to be featured via SL Official! From LL Desk: “We’re … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}