Okay as you know I am an avid Second Life player! well player is the wrong word, its an online world, which lets you be creative in so many ways, you can change your appearance to anything you want, vampire, werewolf, even a dragon if you want!!
Today Im going to show you how to join up, and start your own adventure in 10 easy steps!!
so here we go
Go to
Second Life.com and this is the page you will see
Click the big yellow button in the top corner of the page that says
Join Now
so the 1st page that pops up is like this
you will see create your username and password, this is where you create your personality. so we need to fill out all these fields
1st pick a 1st name, can be anything you want!then when you have that click the green button that says,
Find Last Name and a window will pop up with surnames you an choose from. I decided to use Freyda Evensong
next put in a password, and select your stating look from the 12 you see, dont worry you can change how you look later.
so here is what you should see now
Okay almost there, next scroll down and fill in your details
you will need an active acount to have an email sent to, I made this one up just for this tutorial, fill in your birthday, pick a security question and answer, answer the sequirity check and hit
Create Account
this page will pop up next
you will now get an email sent to your account, so go there and check
will look like this, then hit the activation key, which I have highlighted in Red for you, and then this will pop up
this is where you an download the 'game'. its toatlly free so dont worry, here you can also decide to become a premuim Second Lifer, but I would skip this untill you are sure you like Second Life. so go ahead and hit download!!
Follow the insctrution given, and when all is down loaded you will see an icon like this
on your desktop, so double click it to Log in.and you will see this window open
Fill in your user name -
Freyda Evensong is mine, then the password you gave on the joining screen, and hit log in!! wooo its getting exciting now.
Agree to terms of service, Like most of these we just click ok and move on!! annnd presto.....
You are in Second Life!! when you get logged in you will ne in a newcomer area, so everyone you see is a new player, might take a minute or two to load you avatar, and all you will see is a poof of mist, but dont worry, you will load soon enough.
and when you do, you can read any info you see and explore the area. I will take up here on my next second life blog, show you how to chage your outfits, and find awesome places to explore.
till then enjoy your 1st day as an avatar!!
