Been trying something experimental this morning with my virtual worlds identity. I signed up for Kaneva.com which is a 2D world that has a 3D world you must be invited into (thanks Harold).

The experimental part for me is I’m accepting any friend request and getting into this whole voting for people’s profiles and communities which they call ‘rave.’ Unlike my MySpace profile which has like two friends, one of which is Tom, I already have 19 friends on Kaneva. The thing is, none of these people are actually friends. I don’t know any of them at all. It’s almost scary how fast I went from 0 friends to 19 friends, but strangely compelling. Have I been bitten by the social networking bug?

(no, but my virtual worlds identity might have been)

Rave whoring? It seems so. What sort of social low point (or is this normal?) has my virtual worlds identity slipped to? Is this the kind of thing people do at MySpace? My Kaneva profile is here, rave me and I’ll rave you back. Add me as a friend, even if you’re Charles Manson, my virtual world identity doesn’t seem to have any bounds to whom he’ll call a “friend.” Rave, I tell you. Rave, rave, rave!

(say it isn’t so!)

All this and I still haven’t been active enough to get an invite to see the 3D portion of the Kaneva. Maybe that happens tomorrow? Hmm.

Update 1:54pm PST: Within a couple hours and 25 or so “raves” from others I was sent an invitation by email. I’m putting together a separate post with pictures and additional details of my findings inside Kaneva 3D.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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