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WSE conspired to ruin my night, as it were, but it ruined many other people's nights as well. I did want to respond to your post, because you make some valid points. Forgive me if this is long, but I am a bit tired at 4 a.m.

My sticking point with your short list is number 4. Downloading. Using the internet with the operating system supplied web browser and/or email client does mask the download. Even so, you're right - the download is an issue of note. Maybe a 'Grid Client' will be a standard in operating systems in the future - but updates. Always the updates...

The RL names is, of course, something I think is important for at least a few of us. It shouldn't be mandatory, but it should be available. If you held a gun to my head now and asked me if I wanted to change Nobody Fugazi's name to Taran Rampersad... I have to admit, I might well say 'no'. I don't know exactly why - maybe it is because I'm tired - but if I were to start over with a new avatar, just beginning, I know I would have chosen my real name for at least my main avatar.

Lower system requirement clients are out there - we're beginning to see them manifest on mobile phones as far as graphics. If they can fit them into a mobile phone...

I do agree on the economy. The user generated content in the economy is what makes Second Life sticky for myself and many other people I know. I still get happy when something sells on SLExchange.com, or when I hear the 'ka ching'. It is almost Pavlovian.

Facebook... I actually don't like. I have been fiddling with it a lot recently, but it really isn't my cup of tea. Perhaps I don't play in the same way that others do...

I hope this makes sense when I read it tomorrow. :-)

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