Second Life Telemarketers

Second Life is an interesting game to me. I am really pretty surprised how many real life factors are integrated into it. I am not a huge fan of it, but can absolutely understand how people can become obsessed. You can pretty much do anything within second life that you can do in the real world. One thing I thought was interesting that is included, [in its own Second Life sort of way], is basically telemarketing. They do not call you and bother you with a lower long distance rate, but they do bombard you with bites, that you must defer every time, I guess there is some sort of garlic necklace you can get to automatically defer them, but I guess I have not played quite enough to figure out where I would do that. I researched this I a little bit and found out that they basically use the same technique as the telemarketing companies to do this. They have got a database of everyone who signs up for the game, I'm not completely sure if its everyone, or if you have to do something first to trigger this, but its really pretty similar. Your name is basically sold to a company that can do what they want with it; and the garlic necklace works in a similar fashion, once you get it, your name is again put on another list telling them to say no to bite automatically. This is similar to the no-call list for telemarketers.