Immersionism and Augmentationism Revisited

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Gwyneth Llewelyn writes about the two approaches to living your Second Life -- totally immersed (hiding anything about your true identity) or as an augmentation to your real life. What's fascinating about this piece is how she compares the two camps to the "old" hacker-culture Internet and the new Facebook-social culture. She makes some excellent points about why the trend lately seems to be toward Augmentationism in Second Life, rather than the original vision of the world. Her point is that those coming to the Net these days have different expectations -- i.e. social expectations among real friends, coworkers, etc. -- than those of the early Internet or Second Life.