Of Death and Graduation

Cur­rent Mood:  curious

(FYI, I’m a teenager — so I’m on the Teen Grid, or TG.)

I’ve noticed that on the TG, grad­u­a­tion (when a teen becomes old enough to move to the MG, or Main Grid) is often seen as a kind of death.

Sure, many TG mem­bers look for­ward to their grad­u­a­tion… but once some­one has grad­u­ated, peo­ple say that they are “gone.” They don’t say, “oh, he/she grad­u­ated” or “they’re on the MG now.” Peo­ple in the TG just say that their friends that have grad­u­ated are gone, as if those peo­ple have died.

In a way, I sup­pose this makes sense. After one of your friends has grad­u­ated, you are no longer able to com­mu­ni­cate with that friend via SL. Sure, you can con­tact them out­side of SL if you have their con­tact info for that, but it just isn’t the same as it was before. They’re gone.

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