The Sad Death of Thomas Roy

As someone who messes around with new technologies so I can at least talk about them based on experience, I try a lot of things that I don’t stick with. For example, the social networking sites Tribe.net and Orkut.com lie on my dust heap of things tried (and tried for a substantial length of time I might add) and eventually discarded. This isn’t to say they are not interesting sites that could be essential to you. But for me, they’re not.

Now I’m ready to add Second Life to the trash pile as well. Again, maybe you can’t live without it.  But I most definitely can. As a sign of my abandonment of Second Life I’ve had a new computer for over two months and it never occurred to me to install the Second Life client. But of course by then it had already been months since I had animated my avatar and ambled/flew/stumbled around that virtual world.

So if you’re in Second Life one day and you see an avatar named Thomas Roy abandoned somewhere on Info Island, don’t bother to poke the body. I’m not there.