When I first heard of Google's Lively, I hoped it would be a searchable database of all things Blake Lively. This was not the case. Nor did it really live up to what it was supposed to be, "a web-based virtual environment." That's right, Google has a dud (its first) on its hands.
I spent some time in Second Life after a stirring introduction by Scaramouch. Though, and this is attributable to my ADHD, I found it slow and only slightly engaging. So when I heard that Google was putting something similar together, I was excited to see what they'd do. After all, they haven't failed me yet.
Whoops.
Lively is a chat room with avatars. It looks like something that was cooked up at an anime convention and it has the intrigue of Seventeen Magazine (assuming you're not a pedophile). Basically, you build a character, find a shell of a room, and decorate it. Customization options are few, and as much as I attempted to make my character look like me, they had no option for "huge penis".
The load times were slow, the interface has some serious kinks, and one of the rooms I went into, I was told "fuck you" over and over by someone who looked like they'd stepped out of a Marilyn Manson concert. Until they figure out that people want to create as well as interact, Lively will be nothing more than a one-room World of Warcraft.
This is Echowood, last survivor of Lively, signing off.
Whoops.
Lively is a chat room with avatars. It looks like something that was cooked up at an anime convention and it has the intrigue of Seventeen Magazine (assuming you're not a pedophile). Basically, you build a character, find a shell of a room, and decorate it. Customization options are few, and as much as I attempted to make my character look like me, they had no option for "huge penis".
The load times were slow, the interface has some serious kinks, and one of the rooms I went into, I was told "fuck you" over and over by someone who looked like they'd stepped out of a Marilyn Manson concert. Until they figure out that people want to create as well as interact, Lively will be nothing more than a one-room World of Warcraft.
This is Echowood, last survivor of Lively, signing off.
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I'm not to keen about these social networks. I have an orkut account but mostly I enter there and delete the messages left to me.
I've never been into second life, don't even know how does it look like, because I've already had my Internet addiction in the mIRC era, and I don't want to get caught on those traps again. Although I don't like them too much, these parallel realities can be really addictive if you find a little thing that may interest you in the load of trash that they really are.
I wanted to try Google's Lively, but at first I didn't had time, later I had something else to do and now I'm not interested anymore. Even less after your review (the only one I read until the end, to be honest).
Unless we start a UNNA island in there, I will stay out.
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... yeah, you think its lame now... but wait a few years till it develops further and eventually teams up with google earth... 'second earth' styles!