According to Yankee Group, the growth rate of Second Life users has stalled since October '06, and average time spent per user is just 12 minutes per month. That hardly sounds like a revolutionary, booming, incredibly important cultural force for change.

These figures have been the subject of much debate without any clear answer arising on exactly how they were calculated. With the Yankee Group actually pulling the article to "revisit that particular piece".

http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/10/linden-lab-labe.html

Wait and see.