Second life

"Don't believe the hype", appropriate to Second Life. I find the whole idea fascinating and the 4 Corners programme was very good, but I do believe there is a lot of hype around Second Life and it is not as widespread and heavily used as they like to make out. From a library perspective I can't see why you would add one more complex level of entering a virtual environment to get info or data that can be easily retrieved from existing databases, catalogues, and the web. Maybe in years to come improved technology would allow for some aspects of Second Life to be brought into virtual reference services, increase interactivity with online reference.