Kit: MySL, Communication, friends, followers and followees 2012

MySL, Communication, friends, followers and followees 
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MySL people panel, Friends

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MySL = my.secondlife.com    

• People on your inworld friends list are also on your friends list in MySL
• The MySL friends have the same names as they do inworld*
• You are automatically following your friends, but can stop following any one you please
• Following means that you see the person's public posts.
• You can access a profile via the name in your friends list.
• You can send a private message to anyone from their profile.
• You can follow anyone (from the profile) if the have the appropriate settings.
• Other people can follow you if you have the appropriate settings.
• You can stop any person you choose from following you.

*Maybe only the user name, not the display name.



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MySL people panel, Following

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These are people I have chosen to follow without inviting them to be on my friends list. 
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MySL people panel, Followers

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These are people who are following me, that is, are seeing my public posts on my comment stream. They can follow me because I have set the controls in my settings panel to allow that.  I could stop someone from following me with the Remove button. 

• MySL. Comment stream. Profile. Mail. Search. 
• Use MySL for promoting your event, with pictures 

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Private messages

• You can access a profile via a name in these panels
• You can send a private message to most people from their profile.
• Unless they have used the Settings panel to turn that off.

• MySL, Private messages, offline

• MySL versus IMs and notecards for private messages  

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