A summary of what might to happen to you in Second Life.

I found the following in the profile of Ƶēʍ (zem.aldrin) who says he copied this from Anodyne Darkes (anodyne.darkes). My apologies to both these people.

A summary of what might to happen to you in Second Life.

You will meet many interesting people.

You will experience the amazing creativity that's found here.

You will have some laughs and good debates.

You will be solicited for sex.

You will develop some strong friendships.

You will lose friends with no warning.

You will spend too much time and $$$ on SL.

You will be in SL when you should be in RL.

You will have a magical time with someone special.

You will get your heart hurt and broken.

You will hurt someone else.

You will survive.

You will be misunderstood and hated.

You will trust the wrong people.

You will repeat something told to you in confidence and someone will get hurt.

You will curse SL and still come back.

You will find your life changed for the worse AND the better.

You will leave...and come back...and leave again...and.......


Some thoughts
I jokingly say that Second Life is like Facebook on steroids. While there are a number of games which are far more popular than SL, such as World of Warcraft, Halo, or Call of Duty, SL remains unique in that it is a "game" with no specific goal. What one does, what goal one achieves, is completely left up to the individual. Create (build), take photos, listen to music, socialize: You can do whatever you want. And you can do it with like-minded people if you look for them.

Many people state in their profile that they keep SL and their RL separate. However, I note that even while we are all in the game, we remain irrevocably our RL mind. That is to say, we always bring part of our RL with us no matter how "immersively" we play the game. As such, when I look at the above points, I see them all as being applicable to Real Life. Second Life is a virtual life, a role play, a fantasy, a made-up scenario, that is, an opportunity to do what we can't do in real life. But who knows? If we had the right circumstances, if we had the right partner, just what could we do in Real Life? I like to say that in SL, our only limitation is our imagination. That could be applied to Real Life.

2019-12-01