This is the tenth in a series of largely demographic interviews that are conducted with established residents, to find out more about them and their involvement with Second Life, and to contrast the differences between their views and experiences and those of the newer residents. The questions may be tailored slightly for each interview; responses may be edited for purposes of clarity.

Neo's a Second Life kid (a child avatar) who's been around forever and likes to build and script "and have fun and annoy stiffnecked adults. That's what's great about being a kid, I get to be a bit more free about saying what i wanna say and stuff to adults, where another adult couldn't say it."

Second Life Name: Neo Rebus

Second Life Age: 1,206 days

Label your subculture in Second Life. (Can be all the cultures you're involved in, or some part thereof.)

Builder, scripter, and kid.

Who is your favorite Second Life celebrity and why? (This could be a Linden you like, perhaps someone well known in your community, etc)(Content creators are covered in the next question.)

I'd say Garth and Pituca FairChang, because I've known 'em forever and I adopted them as my parents and 'cuz they build really neat stuff. They've been around forever, building boats and holding water-based events and stuff.

Do you have a favorite Second Life content creator (scripter, builder, artist, machinima, music, etc), and why? (Anyone whose work you personally like.)

I've got two favorite content creators, if that's okay. First is Lumiere Noir, for the fantabulous Ivory Tower, which is a fantastic resource for learning to build stuff. Lumi's ivory tower is just great - it's a work of art itself, and the step-by-step lessons in using the different kinds of prims are priceless.

Second is Robin Sojourner, 'cuz she makes great skins and clothing that all looks really, really good.

What do you prefer to do in Second Life as regards content creation (scripting, building, artistic, machinima, music, OR NONE, etc), and why?

I build and script. Scripting is way fun, when I'm not being completely and utterly frustrated at SL's broken-ness. I started out making clocks a long time ago, and then got into houses, furniture, gadgets, anything. Building and scripting are stress relief, even though most of the time I never finish any of my projects. :)

What sort of events (if any) do you prefer to attend?

I used to attend building contests all the time, but there's not many of 'em anymore. My favorites were the lightning contests, where you only have like 5 or 10 minutes to build and texture something to match a theme, and the gameshow "primtionary", where you quickly build something to get the audience to say a particular word or phrase.

What would prevent you from attending an event? (Technical, ethical, mood considerations, other people, etc)

Mostly it's timing, stuff happening while I'm in RL and can't get online. And lately, I just haven't really looked for anything, either; it's so hard to find anything in the events listing because of all the gratuitous advertising in there.