Warm Water Reef: There's a sign in the Harbin warm pool these days stating that chatting isn't allowed in the warm pool at actual Harbin

Harbin ethnography:

... more warm water to your home bath.

There's a sign in the Harbin warm pool these days stating that chatting isn't allowed in the warm pool at actual Harbin; no such sign existed and many people spoke freely in the warm pool in the mid-1990s. But couples in the virtual Harbin warm pool cuddle, just as they continue to do in actual Harbin, - cuddling isn't sexuality. Due to these virtual world information technologies in Second Life, you can type chat in private with other avatars who may be anywhere in the world. Other avatars can't then see you communicating in these private type channels, even as you continue to chat with a group of avatars on your local island in SL “local chat.” To do this, you click on the avatar near you on your virtual island, and select IM, for 'Instant Message,' which brings up a one-to-one chat dialogue box, or, if you see that your avatar friends are online on a different virtual island, you click on their name, and select I.M., and then communicate (Figure 1.5?). So the sign in the actual Harbin warm pool which is replicated in virtual Harbin - “Meditation Zone: No conversation or sexuality allowed,” even as naked couples cuddle (hetero- and same sex), and people occasionally whisper - is irrelevant in virtual Harbin warm pool.













(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/03/warm-water-reef-theres-sign-in-harbin.html - March 21, 2010)