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  1. SecondLife Addiction and Thoughts

    In hindsight, I definitely was addicted to SL for a while, and I'd certainly have said "no way that might make me (or someone) addicted" before, nor do I think I'm an especially "prone to addiction person", so my conclusion is that SL has a high addiction potential. Having realised my behaviour, SL use, having become addictive at one point helped me out, and kept me out of being addicted, while being able to continue using it "at a non-addictive level", or maybe it's better to say at a level that doesn't impact my life (too) negatively. It's certainly, usually, not as havoc-wreaking an addiction as others like drugs, alcohol, gambling tend to be, I'd guess (even could be (used) as a "lesser evil" perhaps, by some, like Love mentioned), but, yes, usually; there's still a lot of havoc potential, especially for the "romance tangent", and thinking of some public case years ago of a mother who neglected her child or children. It's surely smart to monitor one's SL or do a little introspection from time to time to check oneself for addictive tendencies or behaviour, and maybe switch to some even lesser evil like one apple a day and stay up much too late for SL once a week rather than the other way around, for example. And threads like this, reading about other people's experience in the forums, surely can be a help for people who are affected, or might be at some point, and could be a kind of warning label or wake-up call for some.

  2. SSP?

    Look on the bright side. Think of the size of window pole you would need to open the windows on the Grand View.

  3. SSP?

    Day of the Pulmerias?

  4. SSP?

    or a cosy cotswold area with an alien touch? "Rare book predicting alien life discovered in Cotswolds": https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-61507780 🫠

  5. What if Linden Lab added harvesting and crafting to Second Life?

    You do, because you're invested, here all the time, and starved of new content and experiences - like most olbies, there likely isn't much in SL at this point you've not tried. Something fun to pass some time, or motive exploration, is entirely valid. Newbies present a very different bundle of interests and needs.