Avatar Social Network : The First Facebook for Virtual Worlds ( and Second Life, of Course)

With the huge popularity of Facebook, some reports suggesting half the US alone uses it, many Second Life residents have been using it to keep in touch when not on Second Life. Trouble is, it has a number of questionable policies concerning privacy and other matters, not to mention it's insistence users use "real names" or risk being dropped. For an alternative, Wesley Regenbogen found the Avatar Social Network, where the residents of our virtual world can feel free to be their virtual selves.

Read Wesley's article in Extra.