1. If your computer breaks, you don’t care about losing your work/music/photographs.. you’re more concerned you won’t be able to get on Second Life until it’s fixed.
2. Your priority is to pay the internet bill before all other bills.
3. When waking up at 3AM for a bathroom visit, you check your phone to see if you’ve had any offliners from SL.
4. You’re unsure whether your 3 best friends are male or female, because they’re in SL, have ambiguous names and you’ve never bothered to check.
5. You start using emoticons when you write letters/notes.
6. You start using your avatar’s name instead of your own name in real life situations.
7. The internet bill arrives in the post packed in a box.
8. When you forget one of your alt’s names.
9. If you think “safe sex” means a visit to Hard Alley.
10. If you have a business card/letterhead/business stationary with your avatar’s name on it.
11. If you sacrifice a holiday in favour of getting a new graphics card.
12. If you can name your favourite 10 sims without skipping a beat.
13. When you shift your sleeping pattern to match that of your SL friends.
14. When you have an account on Flickr, Plurk, Twitter and Facebook to keep in touch with your SL friends when you’re not in world.
15. When you change jobs to one which lets you access Second Life at work.
16. When you’ve created a roleplaying alt.
17. If you can relate to one of the above.
18. If you can relate to all of the above.
19. If you deny any of these relate to you.
20. If you can create a list like this.
Kalel Mommsen on July 6, 2009
1. i’ll have a meltdown until i get my computer fixed. even if i’m on vacation..
2. actually energy bill comes first, they cut off internet after two months so i have time.
3. always have my itouch next to my bed =)
Quaintly on July 6, 2009
Guilty of #5 in particular… I think I’ve forgotten how to write without emoticons! :O
Raven Haalan on July 6, 2009
I am so guilty as charged. How can you go to the bathroom without a plurk and IM scan? umm…Firefox is my “SL” browser with all my SL self auto logins and IE has all my RL auto logins.
Alessia Kranfel on July 6, 2009
Scary!! Muahahhah
Skinkie Winkler on July 6, 2009
21. You make sure your AO is turned on before you leave the house in the morning.
22. You ask for permission before giving your significant other a hug/kiss
lokum shilova on July 6, 2009
number 15
OMG is that why !!!
Natalya Homewood on July 6, 2009
Haha love it! Yeah, I’m guilty of a couple of those >.<
Ahuva Heliosense on July 6, 2009
LOL. #19 is me. really. have NO idea what you are talking about. none. especially not #s 1,3,6,10, 14 and Skinkie’s #21. *grin*
#23 – at RL parties you spend entire time updating everyone on what your SL friends are doing. assuming you ever get to the RL parties…
Ann Otoole on July 6, 2009
Alt camming that image on a web page or video.
Saying lawl out loud in real life.
Ganymedes1985 on July 6, 2009
Is to be found guilty on:
# 2
# 5
# 6
# 8
# 11 (kinda: I had moving plans, mom wanted to keep my laptop, I so I needed a new puter, and I had to miss out on going to Florence to be able to buy a new puter in time)
# 12
# 13 (used to)
# 14
Emerald Wynn on July 6, 2009
I got up at 2 a.m. the other morning just to log in and collect my Midnight Mania prizes before my IMs got capped. :\
That’s like rock bottom, man.
Isle Lunasea on July 6, 2009
#21, a) When looking at outdoor furniture in RL, you wonder for a sec if it has a built in sit menu. Version b- think how darned primmy some of it is.
#22, You crtl/alt/drag on web pages and get annoyed that it Doesn’t Work.
Great list, I identify with way too many.. including the job that allows you to login to SL. That is a Must.
Acacia Merlin on July 6, 2009
30. Your avatar (and alts) has a gmail address that is now your primary email address, the one you check religiously.
31. You schedule your meal times around events in second life . . . and your spouse understands because he/she does the same. Or your spouse doesn’t understand, and it just doesn’t matter to you.
32. You think of Second Life as your second job . . . moving on toward primary, as in wouldn’t it be nice if I could make my living here? . . . and you have a list of things you want to accomplish . . . like this weekend gotta write my blog post, put some new photos on my flickr site, and build a few new things for the shop.
33. You participate in an SL survey and request your payment in Lindens rather than real U.S. dollars.
34. You do time zones in your head without even thinking about it.
35. And you love every minute of it . . . well, almost every minute of it.
Lizzie Lexington on July 6, 2009
I did number 13 when I had a partner in Germany. It lasted only a month – I was too damn tired. LOL
Mistletoe on July 6, 2009
I actually did this one the other day: you’re at the grocery store and you say that something costs “Five lin– I mean, dollars– per box.”
On an unrelated note: good to hear from you again, Prad. I was jonesin’ something fierce.
Arwyn Quandry on July 6, 2009
I wrote with emoticons before I ever joined SL – I think it has something to do with being born into the “Internet Generation”. x)
Diva Regina on July 6, 2009
Some of these hit too close to home.
How about, “Wants to right click on a great house or outfit in RL to see who made it.”
ZenCho Balhaus on July 6, 2009
Oh God I can agree with a few of these…aargh I need help
Teena on July 6, 2009
umm #6, does it count if SL made it so i stopped feeling weird about wanting to change my name and just did it without all the legalities?? I now go by Tina in RL, its a name I’ve wanted since I was younger and since i moved across the country and started a new life I now go by that
*damn aparently #5 fits as well*
Dusan Writer on July 6, 2009
How about:
#36 – You pay more attention to management changes at Linden Lab than your country’s government
#37 – On a related note, if in-world economic stats, concurrency and number of users in the last month is more important to you than the NYSE, the employment rate, or the USD exchange rate (except as it impacts your conversion of Lindens).
#38 – You’d never write a blog about the rest of your life, but find yourself drawn back time and again to blogging about SL, in spite swearing off of the whole silly waste of time.
Bailey Longcloth on July 6, 2009
*cough*
Guilty of… well geez… Just about all of them.
*sigh*
/me goes back to want ads looking for “SL Friendly Workplace” *grin*
Guen on July 6, 2009
Guilty of…
#1, 5, 12, 14, 23, 30, 31, 32, 34
I’ve caught myself on regular webpages trying to do ALT-click to try and move my cam and zoom in on the pictures.
Also I pretty much go by either my RL name and my SL name and don’t skip a beat if I hear one or the other.
Should we start a support group?
Voodoo Buwan on July 7, 2009
RE: Number 6, My girlfriend, who I met on SL, has a 7 year old son. He calls me “Voo” almost as often as he uses my rl name, much to the confusion of others
Voodoo Buwan on July 7, 2009
Oh, and #39 – You see the following building in RL, and think it’s just been badly textured: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7960849@N05/2045464266/
Truthseeker Young on July 8, 2009
(a variation on one others have posted)
You sit down at an RL restaurant or bar, and unconsciously your hand starts moving on the table as you try to alt-cam around to check out the build & peoples’ profiles
Elsa Cerise on August 1, 2009
Oh yeah, tell me about it ^_^
Often in the morning, almost late for work, huffing and puffing, half running to the main road. I wish that i could hit the “FLY” button so the other fella by the roadside wouldn’t grab my taxi.
And when i am walking, i feel the urge to rotate the view so i could see how my hair/outfit/shoe look from all angles.
Raz on August 13, 2009
When you like somebody’s shoes and, with a shock, realize you can’t rightclick to inspect to see where she got them
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Ravin Draconia on September 14, 2009
What number are we up to? 39? Okay,
#40 You switch viewers so your away timer can be maxed letting you sleep in SL.
#41 You automatically answer with your rez date when a RL form asks for your birthdate.