re: #103 JasonA

It’s ridiculous to think your avatars are real people until they incorporate.

I won’t have time to get into it now except to say that this “unreal” avatar helped to raise a lot of real money for real causes to help real people over the last five years, as well as created a virtual tool which helps psychologists to treat some children with Autism and other related problems using virtual techniques for which my “unreal” avatar was much praised and thanked by the educators in Teen Second Life. I’m a little bit proud of that and other things I’ve done, thank you, and I didn’t relish the thought of being told I wasn’t worthy of being on an account which I was paying for - and invited to do so by Google before they suddenly changed their minds.

This “unreal” avatar also spends a lot of money on things with my very real credit card, some of which was money going towards Google (and still does).

I’m about as “unreal” as Salman Rushdie who also, recently ran into the problem of being called “unreal” by Facebook and was suspended for it before they apologized and re-instated him.