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==Residents and avatars== {{Main|Resident (Second Life)}} There is no charge for creating a Second Life account or for making use of the world for any period of time. Linden Lab reserves the right to charge for the creation of large numbers of multiple accounts for a single person(5 per household, 2 per 24 hours)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Alt_Account_FAQ|title=Alt Account FAQ|publisher=Linden Research|accessdate = 2010-09-02}}</ref> but at present does not do so. A Premium membership (US$9.95/mo., US$22.50 quarterly, or US$72/yr.) extends access to an increased level of technical support, and also pays an automatic stipend of L$300/week into the member's avatar account (down from an original stipend of L$500, which is still paid to older accounts; certain accounts created during an earlier period may receive L$400). This stipend, paid into the member's avatar account, means that the actual cost for the benefit of extended tech support for an annual payment of US$72 is only US$14. However, the vast majority of casual users of SL do not upgrade beyond the free "basic" account. Avatars may take any form users choose (human, animal, vegetable, mineral, or a combination thereof) or residents may choose to resemble themselves as they are in real life,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.weburbanist.com/2007/06/17/top-3-look-alike-avatars-and-people-from-second-life-to-real-life/ |title=Second Life Avatars and their Real Life |publisher=Web Urbanist |accessdate = 2007-06-18 }}</ref> or they may choose even more abstract forms, given that almost every aspect of an avatar is fully customizable. See [[Second Life Culture]] for more details. A single resident account may have only one avatar at a time, although the appearance of this avatar can change between as many different forms as the Resident wishes. Avatar forms, like almost everything else in SL, can be either created by the user, or bought pre-made. A single person may also have multiple accounts, and thus appear to be multiple Residents (a person's multiple accounts are referred to as ''[[Alternate character|alts]]''). Avatars can communicate via local chat or global instant messaging (known as IM). Chatting is used for localized public conversations between two or more avatars, and is visible to any avatar within a given distance. IMs are used for private conversations, either between two avatars, or among the members of a group, or even between objects and avatars. Unlike chatting, IM communication does not depend on the participants being within a certain distance of each other. As of version 1.18.1.2, voice chat, both local and IM, is also available on both the main grid<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2007/08/02/the-second-life-voice-viewer-is-live |title=The Second Life Voice Viewer is Live! - Official Linden Blog |accessdate=2007-08-24 |date=2007-08-02 |author=Linden Lab}}</ref> and teen grid.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vivox.com/press-releases-detail.php?id=17 |title=Vivox Gives Voice to Second Life |accessdate=2007-08-24 |date=2007-02-27}}</ref> Instant messages may optionally be sent to a Resident's email when the Resident is logged off, although message length is limited to 4096 bytes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlEmail |title=LlEmail - Second Life Wiki |publisher=Wiki.secondlife.com |date= |accessdate=2008-10-27}}</ref> If a message is sent to an offline Resident it will also be saved to be viewed when they log on.
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