Being a west-coaster, I have the dubious fortune of living in actual 'SL time'. I don't have to do any math to figure out when an event starts, but then most events start right at or before my dinner time. The east-coasters are usually going to bed around when I can normally log on, and the Europeans are waking up for work.
So I often explore a seemingly empty SL. It's nice, in that I can poke around and prod at things without interruption, but at the same time, it seems a little ... counter to the whole point of SL. Ha.
A field of flowers at Ode. Catch the butterflies and get pieces of jewelry.
The SL fashion blog Shopping Cart Disco has a regular feature on Sundays--SLsecret--modeled after PostSecret and it's many clones. A number of the secrets thus far have talked about loneliness and an inability to make friends in SL. As much as I'm enjoying playing in SL, I have found it rather difficult to make friends. Partly because of the time thing, I'm sure, but also because I have--in SL, as well as in RL--a very reserved manner. It usually takes me a couple of months to make friends in RL, and in SL a couple of months can feel like five years.
In a tree at La Reve.
I have a small circle of friends, and a slightly larger circle of acquaintances. I'd like to know more people (maybe even some in my own darned time zone! Where are all the Pacific coast SL-ers??), but I often feel stymied in this. One place I go to on occasion is friendly and fun, but also ... feels kind of insular and like a closed circle at times. Lots of places in SL feel like that, actually.
Also, I'm really enjoying building things and I need to balance social activity with that, all in the limited time I have to give to SL-related activities. Sometimes it feels like it's an either/or situation: do you want to play SL on the building track, or on the social activity track? If only I could gain XP by building that I could then spend on upping my charisma... or something equally nerdy. heh.
In the wheat field in the Refuge and Expansion.
So I often explore a seemingly empty SL. It's nice, in that I can poke around and prod at things without interruption, but at the same time, it seems a little ... counter to the whole point of SL. Ha.
A field of flowers at Ode. Catch the butterflies and get pieces of jewelry.
The SL fashion blog Shopping Cart Disco has a regular feature on Sundays--SLsecret--modeled after PostSecret and it's many clones. A number of the secrets thus far have talked about loneliness and an inability to make friends in SL. As much as I'm enjoying playing in SL, I have found it rather difficult to make friends. Partly because of the time thing, I'm sure, but also because I have--in SL, as well as in RL--a very reserved manner. It usually takes me a couple of months to make friends in RL, and in SL a couple of months can feel like five years.
In a tree at La Reve.
I have a small circle of friends, and a slightly larger circle of acquaintances. I'd like to know more people (maybe even some in my own darned time zone! Where are all the Pacific coast SL-ers??), but I often feel stymied in this. One place I go to on occasion is friendly and fun, but also ... feels kind of insular and like a closed circle at times. Lots of places in SL feel like that, actually.
Also, I'm really enjoying building things and I need to balance social activity with that, all in the limited time I have to give to SL-related activities. Sometimes it feels like it's an either/or situation: do you want to play SL on the building track, or on the social activity track? If only I could gain XP by building that I could then spend on upping my charisma... or something equally nerdy. heh.
In the wheat field in the Refuge and Expansion.
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