The Dark Side of SL

I recently heard about a blog that publishes explicit info about Second Life users. It is gossip....with pictures of people, screenshots of IMs, profiles of people with multiple alts, cheaters, liars, creators that copy products from other stores, and the list goes on and on.

When I started reading it I was crushed, because I always believed Second Life was a way of connecting people and give them the oportunity to live, to have a second chance that they might not have in Real Life. Seeing that so many users took this as a chance to screw people ruining entire families...well...it made me very sad.

Kid avatars going from family to family to flirt with parents, to take their money, to make their lives miserable to the point the family is broken. Serial cheaters that get married 10 times a year leaving broken hearts everywhere. Im not even gonna talk about incest.

But what caugh my attention was that many posts were just mean comments about random people, laughing at their pictures in Flickr or at their avatar shapes and style. It was bullying. A very VERY cruel way of bullying, totally unnecessary. Most of them screenshots showing their names saying something like "Who told you that outfit works with that ugly shape you have? Go work out, you probably are a fat looser in rl". Or "blablabla Resident why dont you tell all how you look like in rl huh?".

I wont even say the name of that website, I dont think it should keep spreading around with its toxic comments, I really really hope Linden Labs do something about it, it should be closed. Even if people are so shitty sometimes it is not up to us to judge their mistakes and make their lives a living her because of it.

I still believe Second Life can be a chance to do some good.