Being a first time Second Life user, the first couple of days inside where great... Maybe even beyond great ! But as with all social interaction(which is going around a lot in SL ;-), I was bound to learn fast.Sitting in the train (in RL that is), I was going over the ways I would like to set up things in SL. Going to a pub once in a while, have a drink and chat and start building my own club, invite other avatars. Set up a streaming server... and me and the guys would going to perform live music here. (We still going to... I or we won't be chased away that easily... hehehe). But as I was saying...
I was going to learn fast !
In Second Life avatars must feel a little bit too invincible. Avatars believe they can't be hurt and believing that, they go around hurting others. Especially the other avatars feelings... And so it goes... I was harassed. Me!
Responding in a funny mood that I was in, as stated previously... for SL brings this mindset. I just feel free around here and don't feel acting upon anybody else's feel of freedom in any way. 'Don't be a funny guy... or you'll be next buddy !'
What was that? What was I hearing there... I felt like I was in a pub alright... but then full of drunk people with a hostile feel against me.
That was not why I came to SL. I came here to enjoy myself and have some 'nice' social interaction, and investigate social behavior in SL, hoping to find it less hostile than in RL...
So, 'they' gave me some social interaction alright, but just the kind I was not hoping to find.
Well, maybe I'm being a wimp and just got to get used to this. Or maybe, I don't !
There seems to be a lot of (maybe being just funny) aggressiveness going round... even it's only verbal... it's still aggressive.
I would like to option for an SL vote... not for who is to be the president or something, but one that questions whether avatars would like to see their world evolve into a peaceful society or a hostile one ?!
I'd be very curious as to the outcome.
