PROFILES

Profiles

Profiles are a way for people to share information about themselves, what they do, the things the like or dislike, special places they recommend, and so on.

Profiles of Others

Avatar Tab

Here is a sample of what you will see when looking at someone else's profile:

UUID Key: This is the avatar's Universally unique identifier, a key which uniquely identifies this avatar from all others.
Copy URI (button): Copies the URI for the avatar to the clipboard. This looks like:
secondlife:///app/agent/989652fe-598c-4324-8712-1e8cede7cb97/about
Name: Self explanatory
Online status: will show whether the avatar si online or offline.
Profile picture
Born: Shows Month, day year and exact age.
Example:
08/27/2006 (4 years 9 months old; 1745 days)
Account Info: Indicates Resident status, and whether payment information is registered with LL.
Partner: If the avatar is partnered, the partner's name will be shown here.
Groups: Shows the list of publicly visible groups to which the avatar belongs.
About: A brief summary written by the avatar to describe him/herself.
Find on Map (button): This will be greyed out if not on your friends list; otherwise, this will open a map showing the avatar's current location in-world, if online.
Offer Teleport (button): Sends a teleport offer to the avatar; if accepted, the avatar will be brought to your current location.
Add Friend (button): Sends a request to the avatar offering friendship. If accepted, this results in their calling card being added to your Calling Cards inventory folder.
Pay (button): Allows you to send L$ directly to the avatar.
Instant Message (button): Opens an instant message window for direct one-on-one communication.
Block (button): Blocks the avatar from communicating with you. Equivalent to the “Mute” button in Phoenix viewer.
Gear (button): Clicking this gives a menu with one item: Share. Selecting that, an IM window opens, and inventory items may be given to he other avatar by dragging them into it.
NOTE: You may also give inventory items by dragging them from your inventory onto any part of the avatar's profile.

Picks Tab

This tab shows the avatar's Picks. Picks are generally used to record favorite locations in SL, and also frequently, close friends, or special past events. Note that picks are always associated with a location.

Clicking on the arrow to the right of each will open a detail view about that particular location. To return to the list of Picks, click the arrow the top left of the window. Clicking the More link will show a small caption as hovertext with the same information given on the detailed view.

Info (button): Same as clicking the arrow to the right of each Pick.
Teleport (button): To visit the location in Second Life, click this.
Map (button): Opens a map showing the location of the specific Pick.
1st Life Tab

Optionally used for an avatar's real life information.

There is space for a photo and brief text.

Notes & Privacy Tab

This tab allows you to write your own private notes about an avatar. These notes are not visible to anyone but yourself.

Also, this is where you can allow the avatar to do the following:

See my online status: If checked, this avatar will be able to see your online status.
See me on the map: If enabled, the avatar will be able to locate you in SL (using the Find on Map button described above), and possibly teleport to your location, if they wish.
Edit, delete or take my objects: Gives the avatar the ability to edit items you own; this is known as “edit rights”.

Your Own Profile

Your own profile - which can be accessed by right clicking your avatar and selecting Profile - looks a bit different in layout from that of others. But the same information is all there.

Here too, you can access your UUID: you can “Copy URI” to copy it to the clipboard. The More Info and Picks tabs show the same information as described above in the Profiles of Others section.

The focus here will be editing your own profile. To do that, click the Edit Profile button.

Now you can change your profile picture by clicking on the space and selecting a new one. You may change the text where you describe yourself. And finally, you can opt to have your profile show up in search results or not.

On the More info tab, you can give real life details if you chose. Again, you can supply a picture and text. You may also give the URL to your personal website.

Note that in Firestorm, web links can be placed in any text part of a profile; they will be clickable when viewed by others.

Once completed editing, click Save Changes - or Cancel to revert to what you had before.

To edit Picks or Classifieds, click the Picks tab. This has two sub-tabs: Picks and Classifieds. In each case, you can use the two icons near the bottom of the window:

+ Icon: allows you to add a new picks or classified. Note that the location you are at, will be added automatically; this cannot be changed manually - but see below.
Trash Icon: with this, you can delete the currently selected pick or classified ad.
If you wish to modify an existing pick or classified, right click it and select Edit. Then you will be able to change the title, description, and set a new location.