2013 1stHELP: Profile Button (framed head)

Profile Button
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This button leads to much more than your profile!
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First profile window

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Profile button opens MySL

• MySL = my.secondlife.com
• MySL is a web based social networking site integrated into Second Life. 
• Access and change any MySL page from your browser (using any device).
• No need to open the viewer to see or edit your profile.
• V3.2. Profiles. Yours and theirs 

About me window

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The "real" profile page

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Edit profile window
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V3.2 Edit profile window

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How to fill out you profile

• Review privacy settings. Do you want your information to be public?
• Enter the interests you want to share with others.
• Get your avatar picture if you wish*   
• Set your display name.  
• Announce your website, profile, or blog. 
• Social identities are the names you use in Facebook,  Twitter, etc.

*Here's how

• Take snapshots
• Save the picture to your computer in .jpg format.  
• In the Edit Profile window, click Profile Picture.
• Click Choose file, follow the instructions.
• You can post a Real World Picture Profile in a similar way.

Profiles of other people

You have already figured out the next step: check the profiles of other people.  Check when

• you meet people or 
• see people around you
• see people at an event you like.  

You right-click on the avatar and select Profile.  You can also see the profile of people in various other contexts. Hover the cursor near the avatar name.-

Or you can get it  from the list of people nearby.  To get that list, click on the people button:  

V3.2 People button  (2 heads).

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Click on the NEARBY tab at the top.  To check a profile, hover the cursor near the name.  Look for the profile option.

For people who are not around you, you can get the profile by typing the name in search.  
Search: find: friends, places, events in SL

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Caution: the self-descriptions you see in the profile may not be true.  But what the person writes will tell you something about the person.

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Picks and groups

• Picks lists your favorite destinations.  Add destinations with the Picks button on the main screen.
• Groups shows groups are a member of.  You can hide specific groups that you are in.  Go to to the group profile to do that.

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• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans