Not quite zombies but...

I am sure the skilled and experienced denizens of Second Life (SL) have finely honed personalities, styles, persona, and behaviors... For me the newbie, while not quite zombies, the avatars I have run into are awkward, mechanistic, edgy and flighty... Of course, I am one of these creatures. It really is a second life in this sense... all the persona and personality one has developed in the first life gets left behind, on this, the wrong - the keyboard - side of the screen. There seems ahead a formidable challenge of shaping avatars who could have some semblance to the First Life of the individual.. or to some imagined, superhero-like multi-skilled, talented, high-powered persona... Otherwise, the neophyte SL creature created seems to be ... well... just a couple of step above a neanderthal zombie!