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The gains were:

• PMLF is up (accounts with a positive monthly Linden Dollar flow) by 3.03% bringing the figure to a record 62,633 and more than making up for August's fall.
• User-to-user transactions are up 10.53% -- but Linden Lab has informed us in the past that this figure does not constitute a significant economic indicator, and that we cannot infer anything from the state of the economy from it.
• Private estates increased by 113 million square metres (7.01%), which seems to indicate an urge for land in the absence of growth in mainland supply for the last six months.

The losses:

• Premium accounts keep falling at an accelerating rate. Down 1.94% in September to 83,230. Linden Lab tells us that this is not a significant indicator and that we should, instead, look at user-hours.
• User-hours fell by 4.59% (1.6 million hours) to 33.24 million user hours for the month.
• The amount of USD exchanged during September fell for the second month running, falling a further 3.97% (US$378,000) to 9.12 million USD.

September closed with the L$:USD exchange rate unchanged from August's close, at L$266.8:US$1.

Basically, while August didn't represent a good month, September seems to represent a more significant decline overall.

Demographically there seems to be little change. Second Life is still firmly in the hands of Baby Boomers and Generation X as far as active users go, and younger users statistically remaining unengaged with the platform with only 15.54% of user-hours being accrued by users under 25.

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