Welcome to SL Secret, Week 77.
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#1: Maybe you should only stop by if the shop advertises something new that appeals to you. Getting ragey over stock consistency can’t be good for your blood pressure. If I’m jaded with a shop, I just don’t go unless I see they have something new that calls to me. For products with limited availability, I tend to check blogs/flickr for preview pics to determine whether or not I want to brave a crowd to check out the item(s) for that event.
#2: Only attend the weddings or partnership ceremonies/celebrations of those partnerships you support. It’s one thing to attend a second or perhaps third ceremony over the course of a two-year friendship, considering SL can be more ephemeral and fast-paced than RL, but if you aren’t close enough friends to someone to feel supportive of their partnership(s), just don’t attend. For RL weddings, many people don’t send gifts for second weddings, and a simple card should be sufficient observation of social nicety in lieu of attendance.
#6: One of the things I love about the Internet is its potential to bring people together in friendship (or more, see below) who may not have had the opportunity to meet one another otherwise. Humans are social creatures by nature, and it can be so hard to break the ice in RL if you’re shy, so to be able to connect with others and build self-confidence is a wonderful thing. I don’t get a lot of facetime with my local friends these days, either, so even my “started in RL” friendships benefit from online social media.
#8: Wow, does it really matter where someone meets their SO? Online—be it in SL, WoW, dating sites, IRC chatrooms, local BBS, forums, or wherever—is no less valid a realm of first encounter than any offline venue. Sounds like YOU are the one on a “high horse,” there, what with the automatic judgment that meeting someone via SL is for “eHarmony rejects” and people who “have to” due to lack of relationship success in RL. I know many RL couples who met online—myself included—and I don’t see meeting first in SL any more or less valid than meeting in college, in a bar, at a coffee shop, in a book club, at a cooking class, at church, via a blind date set up by parents or friends, or in any other RL venue.
1. Harsh!
2. I think there should be a waiting period definately! But it might not stop the weddings, cos people would just marry and do the box later.
3. There’s tons you can do, starting with aring what you see.
4. Aww (hugs)
5. And theres the weekly “shoulda said that direct” post.
6. Aww
7. another say it direct.
8. and another.
Come onnn, lets try saying the bitchy things to people’s faces and posting some juicy secrets?
1. I think you mean punch “It” in the face.
Why do most of these seem like “Jr. High School Mean Girl” rants by a chicken sh!ts to cowardly to tell the object of their ire directly to their face? Oh, yeah.. because the are. Moar secret, lees catty 14 year old.
Correction to “Oh, yeah.. because THE are. Moar secret, lees catty 14 year old.”
THEY..
#2: So because you’re a spineless wimp who can’t say ‘Enough already’ to some friends or acquaintances, you want LL to police partnering? Grow a pair and quit whining!
1 – honestly, just because you made it rhyme, doesn’t make you less of a douche.
don’t like the stuff at that shop? then don’t go there! a deficiency of common sense is no excuse for nastiness.
#1: If I find out who you are, I’m gonna kick you in the damn box. Cool?
1 – If you don’t like a store, don’t go there! It’s simple. Also I can tell what shop it is because of the clothes in the picture.
6- That’s awesome you’ve met wonderful people. SL secrets needs more secrets like this.
8-Is your problem that they met online or that the person just talks about the new relationship alot? If they just talk about it a lot that seems normal and would it piss you off as much if they met in RL? Couples who meet online aren’t eharmony rejects, it can’t be shocking that when people spend more and more time online more couples meet online.
Yeah.. I didnt think Number 1 would last LONG. It was a spiteful, stupid, catty, bitchy comment. A little bit of truth in it, but extremely bitchy. Original Poster: OMGWTF were you thinking? Violence? Asshat!
I believe in the year 2007, 1 out of 8 couples who married in RL had met online (not necessarily in SL). Im sure by 2010 that number is even higher. It is not uncommon or unnatural. I personally prefer it. The internet opens doors to a mass array of individuals and its pretty stupid to limit yourself to local people only. (Although I do understand why someone would choose this)
I think the problem is when people begin to treat others as lesser humans because now they have some sort of validity in their lives from being in a relationship. All you can really do is smile and walk on because its sad when a person needs a romantic partner to feel validated.
#2 is awesome. That is just so rad, LOVE it.
#3 Many of us, big designers and small, feel your pain.
#8 is simply ridiculous. Just because you meet your mate online doesn’t make you some sort of reject that lacks social skills in rl. I met my rl hubby one night on yahoo, not on any sort of dating site. My brother met his wife, my hubby’s cousin and bestfriend both met thier wives online, one of my bestfriends who is a freakin rl model/actress actually DID meet her hubby on eharmony and she is far from any sort of reject. My guess is the person who met that rl connection isn’t all that happy in it so much so that they have to put down those others who have found happiness through sl or any other online venue.
ROFL @ #8.
I LOVE #8!
So true…
1. Missed it..
2. That’s great but why wait for LL do something about it when all it takes is you not going to the wedding. Seriously I stopped going to weddings when people got out of hand. Lost some “friends” and a lot of drama along with them.
3. When things are passed your way let the creator know. When passing stolen merch becomes embarrassing to the sl masses then we’ll get somewhere.
5. Although most of that gives me the yucks you have to remember that for many SL is a fantasy.
Goodness me, this needs to be renamed SL Bitchathon this week! Like so many things in world, SL friendship itself seems to be a very transitory and fragile thing.
Bring on the secrets next week I say!
haha, #8 is awesome
you are supposed to tell a secret about yourself, not passively tell someone off who we don’t care about (unless we can figure out who it is and i know no one on this game so it’s just like other people say, another bitchfest)
#5 this video probably describes the person you are talking about in the best way… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-MVwwl2jjw
# 5 is pretty mean, whether it’s true or not. How do you know all this? Hang out in some better circles yourself.