I was talking at Virtual Worlds Go Mobile on Tuesday and it occurred to me the crucial difference between social networking and virtual worlds.
In social networking, you are you - singular - with the attributes you have as you the person we can meet.
In virtual worlds, you are an avatar or more than one avatar with attributes that exist only in the virtual world.

Doesnt’ mean you can’t create fictional social networking personas, but it does mean that the expectations are totally different and should not be confused.  Trying to drag your RL identity into virtual worlds is like trying to game the system - it simply doesn’t work.

Likewise, there is some resistance in the idea of overlays of digital information over the real world perceptions we have.  I have encountered this in speaking about augmented reality .  Who knows if these two realms will ever recruit converts from the other side.  Stay posted here for updates!

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