"Second Lifer" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Second Lifers [plural]
Etymology: From Second Life + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Second Life|er}} Second Life + -er Head templates: {{en-noun|nolinkhead=1}} Second Lifer (plural Second Lifers)
  1. A user of the online virtual world Second Life. Wikipedia link: Second Life

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2005 September, Chloe Veltman, “Real Estate 101”, in Dwell, page 172",
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          "text": "Do users pay $x per month in the expectation that they will create something that they can later license to others for a fee, or do they pay that sum in order to get access to a platform of creative tools and connections with creative others, so that they can collaborate on cocreating story lines and pretty pictures of their own? If the latter is descriptively true of the motivational profile of Second Lifers, then introducing © into the game, no matter how modulated by (cc) (Creative Commons) permissions, mostly introduces drag.",
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