This is the 18th in a series of largely demographic interviews that are conducted with established residents, to find out more about them and their involvement with Second Life, and to contrast the differences between their views and experiences and those of the newer residents. The questions may be tailored slightly for each interview; responses may be edited for purposes of clarity.

I've known Psyra pretty much as long as I've been in Second Life. Always a welcome sight and quite often a visually impressive one. His custom bird creations and avatars are well... extraordinary.

This is the 13th in a series of largely demographic interviews that are conducted with established residents, to find out more about them and their involvement with Second Life, and to contrast the differences between their views and experiences and those of the newer residents. The questions may be tailored slightly for each interview; responses may be edited for purposes of clarity.

I find Marianne McCann to pretty much be an average child. She has "my mommy and my daddy, my sister Robin (Howe) and my brother Pygar, I also have a nana, and aunties and uncles, too."

Ageplay. What the heck is it? In the strictest sense of the term, it is pretending to be younger or older than you are. In the normal sense of the term, it is pretending to be younger than you are -- plenty of our SL population are over 40 and (like myself) have an avatar that appears to be a good 20 or more years younger. Technically that makes most of us ageplayers, even though it's often only because of the difficulty of reproducing our own natural age as an avatar.



Some people go farther. It's common for Second Lifers to have a child version of their avatar. Starax Statosky -- the famous Second Life builder -- was an ageplayer by the definition that he frequently wore a child avatar. I remember sitting with him many times watching him work. The most common avatar I saw him in was a leather-jacketed, cigar smoking, pugnacious boy with a teddy bear. It very much suited his amiable grumpiness.