Wherever you go there is always someone looking to make a quick buck or, in some cases, looking for a power trip, and I recommend more than anything for men to stay away, as most, if not all, real women (not excluding men/gays pretending to be women) are simply looking to toy with the emotions of others to satisfy their need to feel wanted or to swindle them out of hundreds -- if not thousands -- of dollars (which I don’t see as being different than being a prostitute).

I will also mention that there are men who do the same and that there are other reasons I’m sure people look to toy with others I can’t even fathom. I know several people who have had these kinds of experiences and it’s more than I wish to count and unfortunately I can’t exclude myself from being a statistic in some cases.

Issues in sl spill into real life, like marriages breaking up and people losing their life savings like the post above. If you decide to check it out, I suggest not spending a dime or doing some retarded “partnership/sl marriage,” or you will be suckered into “their” game and losing any self worth you have left.

There is nothing good/fun about sl as it is perceived to be, and that also includes building, unless you’re just looking to make a quick buck. But unless you pour thousands of dollars into a “game,” don’t expect anything, especially when people can easily copybot the things you make.

SL used to be something of a free world, although gambling was allowed back then (I admit this was fun when it existed, but I think we all know how gambling works), but that changed rapidly over the years or perhaps I just never realized it because I was a sucker like so many before me. Just like I’m sure there will be after me.

It appeals to the older generation that look at Second-Life for sex and cash. People have serious issues and are almost always willing to pour their drama into Second-Life always as a "get away" and are too willing to mix virtual reality with reality, which is the dangerous golden rule of what not to do on the inter-webs in a pix elated environment. People tend to be very oddball acting on Second Life, and very territorial. Grid Barons practically pile up in the server with their stench and can literally control where someone goes, or not.

Second Life is also very unforgiving and people have a tendency to tag and "follow" people with their garbage throughout the forums and inside the game. Even more so that they can put people on "region bans" where you are banned from another area even if you were there or not, as long as they are listed under the region-ban "system".

Not only are the majority of the graphics severely outdated and downright ugly, but the server lags so bad on the mainland that it's impossible to have a vehicle without the client crashing itself, the animations range from sloppy to "good", sex animations are often choppy/unrealistic/sloppy. Most avatars have an old, ugly noob-look to them consisting of a barbie doll's horror house.

Second Life has practically ruined what a free-building world should be, mostly by allowing real currency exchange through their platform. Linden Lab's customer service is bland and the majority of the time they act as though they cannot help the customer, nor does LL tell the customer of the status of their account so they are always left in the dark if their account manages to get taken away from them.

Grid barons also have damaged Second Life tremendously. The age of "free-roaming" is unheard of Second Life. Many times you're running into ban-lines of some shack someone put on the mainland, or having to butt-kiss some land owner in order to stay in some place and halfway "enjoy" it. Second Life is exciting as dirt. There is practically nothing to actually do in the server other than being under some owner's whirl and whim. The lack of professionalism combined with the constant reality plus virtual reality mixture LL spews upon their website has been a receipt for disaster.

Favoritism runs the grid, so beware. Don't expect any real liability or professionalism from these "owners" who are nothing more than other customers themselves. Linden Lab has banned universities and individual artist from Second Life, because some of them thought outside the box (Save-Me-Oh did absolutely nothing wrong and was hassled wrongfully because of that stupid TOS which Second Life users treat as a bible and often times bring it up as such).

If you want to be a boring, uncreative, money-lured bigot who stays on and only plays Second Life 24/7, then this piece of crap is the place for you. I guarantee you will be bored to death upon entering your first hub, and will get banned quickly for using a toy gun or simply because of your avatar's age, or, because the owners feel like it!

Please do not waste your time or money on Second Life. It's a trap design to suck you in and drain you of your wallet and try to force you to constantly be under rules, rules and more rules to satisfy everyone who owns land. People are corrupt on Second Life just as much as they are in real life, often times making gang-up "groups" whose sole purpose is to flood LL with abuse reports to get people locked out of Second Life. Once you're locked out, all your stuff is deleted, even if you've "paid" for it. (LL has a bad tendency of hardware banning people for anything, and unfortunately newbies in sandboxes fall for this and end up getting their accounts banned even if they did nothing wrong and were tricked into opening something, nothing that LL warns about on their website!)

Schemes, data mining, arrogance and bigotry run the grid. Sta away from Second Life. If you have ever played or used any other game, you'll be sorely disappointed at the lack of opportunities and high competition rate. This is not a user-friendly game and often times aims at corporate businesses and wanna-be businesses charging ridiculous amounts of money for their fake, DMCA ridden products and to restrict free-style and free-roaming users as much as possible.

The wannabe Second Life meta-verses are basically the same (InWorldz, etc). Until a company decides to make a real "free" roaming metaverse that people can interact with as they do on similar games or mmo's (which are the strong dominance of the game world) or add an actual fun element to their platform, you will always have these metaverses asking for large amounts of money and giving the consumer very little in return, buried under a set of rules after rules to the point of complication, after rules and treating these meta-verses almost as "Real Life" with a politically correct "community".

promotes real world connection and communication and then you will not need a virtual world.