Avatar as Anti-Depressant
"Listening to Prozac" is so old school-- now you can chat, dance, and if you're both in the mood, have poseball sex with Prozac too. And at L$150, it's probably around the same amount you'd pay for the actual pill. SL Discovery has the shopping details, though I'm guessing the good people at Eli Lilly and Company may be inclined to demur. (I'd love to listen in on their lawyers' meeting as they contemplate filing a DMCA notice.) Unless, that is, it's actually part of an underground viral advertising campaign, which is not totally inconceivable.
Hamlet, this entry is very interesting. I totally agree. It's not far fetched at all to think it could be part of an underground viral media campaign.
I'm going to be talking to a statewide group of public relations professionals in the fall about Second Life and New Media and this will make a wonderful anecdote. I will show your blog page.
Quite a few of them are in SL, or else using other New Media forms. At least one nationally-known PR firm in Raleigh NC has an office in SL, as well as a MySpace page, a Facebook project, and viral and social marketing projects.
Their SL office write-up:
http://www.fwv-us.com/content/page/title/Our_Virtual_Office
Their SLURL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blue/144/91/29
--Stone
Posted by: Stone Semyorka | Monday, July 07, 2008 at 06:34 AM