New Mentors’ Graduation Party
Yesterday was the Graduation party of new Mentors. Being one of the photographers on duty I was there for a couple of hours dancing at Oliver’s rhythms (great job Oliver!) and shooting my camera around.
Most of us had over 4 hours of mentoring and really needed a break. This weekend the Help Islands (which replaced the Orientation islands for some time now) were filled with new residents who were driven by news of a divorce in England caused, or so they say, by a Second Life affair. Result?
Sex calls people and from what I saw over 2 thousand new residents must have arrived just yesterday. Of course the questions were “How can I have sex?”; “Do you want to have sex with me?” “I want to marry you and have children”. There were a couple of guys that even gave phone numbers and skype contacts in open chat as well as other RL information.
As mentors our job is to teach people how to use SL and to give assistance in technical or other issues. How do you teach someone that just asks the above questions? I don’t know about the others, but I see it as a chance to explain how to move, how to use search, speak about the social environment SL is (not only for sex) and how to interact with people and objects.
Most of them left for welcome areas (which were also crowded, The Shelter, for instance, was full) and off they went searching for someone to have sex with. Others started asking more questions which allowed me to explain what SL can offer.
It was a busy day. It was tiring but in the end it was quite gratifying.
