Visiting

How do you find things in SL?
Objects, places to visit, people?
It is a 3D world, without a clear one dimensional classification on for instance length or on alphabet.
Words are not what is present.
Never the word was more different from it’s content then in SL.
Keywords are added to everything to attract.
So if something is “not free”- free is in the keywords. Smart? Well the search engine is a blessing, even with the system of false keywords (“no sex”….lol).
There is chance. You are directed, send on a way, follow a path, the oracle is always right, you will find something. So looking for a telephone 5 found nice Victorian instruments and a very amusing brewery. Looking for art, 5 landed in a museum of teacups, still under construction, but very intriguing.

Another link brought 5 to a french rural church, a chapelle, all painted within, which exists in reality

Finding things turns out to be very simple. One word or a simple question from a friend can release a complex query through SL. And looking at things from the perspective of this question the world looks different. Evolution, ecosystem, museum, art, science, laboratory. The search engine won’t bring you the answer or the sim you were looking for, but it will function as an oracle. Bringing better or even more than the answer.
People complain that all is the same in SL. Well only if you don’t have ideas yourself. All you can think of, indeed more, is there, but you have to be able to excavate it from the unordered 3D world. Not only not logically ordered, also in constant reordering.
So you have to be fast, because all is changing, or is being changed, at the same time. Being there in Second Life means changing. Some very nice sims can disappear in a second at the whim of the owner, having changed her mind.
So make snapshots, or and- even better, movies. Avatars change all the time, the sims are rearranged, the ideas trasformed. In SL even more than in the head of the most creative person, ideas are combined and fall apart. Ever shifting worlds.
You can help this process.
Walk around, make notes of interesting things, put these into your profile, you will meet people, look at their ideas, they look at yours, and you have soon other strange places to visit. Talking is more than chatting, you have to inspect the persons you meet, always new aspects to explore. There is more than you ever can imagine!