Cheerio from London!

Hello everyone! I write to you from London, England, where I am conducting super-secret business. Hooray!

This weekend is SL:UK, http://spacethinkdream.com/sluk06.php, which means I get to meet more SLrs.

One thing I learned from last year's overwhelmingly positive response to SLCC 05 was that despite the advantages SL has over other online avenues of communication, there exists this need for people to meet face to face. And yet, even if this is some sort of reality-solidifying event, people who knew each other in SL seem to not be surprised at all with each other when they meet in the "real world", and people seem to already be familiar with each other's personalites and be comfortable.

I wonder what this intangible need to connect in the real world is, and I wonder how fine that difference is going to become as SL gets more and more interactive technology.