Steve Yuen's List: Second Life

• 1 Billion Hours, 1 Billion Dollars Served: Second Life Celebrates Major Milestones for Virtual Worlds
• Second Life Residents have transacted the equivalent of more than one billion US dollars with each other while spending more than one billion hours in Second Life
• users around the world have spent more than one billion hours in Second Life.
• In total,
• Second Life Residents spend an average of about 100 minutes inworld per visit.
• The equivalent of more than USD1 billion has been transacted between Residents in Second Life, who purchase virtual goods and services from one another.
• More than 18 billion minutes of voice chat have been used in Second Life since voice was introduced in 2007.
• Approximately 1,250 text-based messages are sent every second in Second Life, and more than 600 million words are typed on an average day.
  
• The total land area of Second Life is now equivalent to approximately two billion square meters – roughly the size of the state of Rhode Island.

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