The first time I heard of Avatar Social Network was due to a forum post over at SLUniverse asking for feedback on the site:
“So there is this new website that is similar to the Facebook concept, only it offers a lot more, it has an “Activity Reward” system and doesn’t require any RL information, it is built for Second Life, Inworldz, Avination, There.com, IMVU and other virtual worlds’ residents.
Avatar Social Network
Take a look, tear it apart and tell me what you think.”
People told Arkad exactly what they think and at times it wasn’t pretty, nor were Arkad’s responses. One big concern was who the hell are you? Fair question. Things could have been worse for Arkad, he could have taken his question to Second Citizen MKII, where people also would have told him what they think.
Personally I think Arkad is missing a trick or two, he could have gone beyond the Second Life style virtual worlds and also invited users from World Of Warcraft, Eve-Online etc. and maybe even entitled the site Avatars United, that would have been catchy ….. oh wait!
However moving on, what of the site itself? Well for a start it seems active, there are blog posts, discussions, videos, photos and there’s a way to earn a small amount of Linden Dollars via a rewards scheme, although I’m not sure exactly how that works.
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