I don't see many empty profiles but when I do they are usually newbs who haven't built one yet, or alts of people trying to hide for one reason or another. Of people that have a RL pic on their 1st life page, I've seen plenty use pictures I've seen on the internet so I really don't trust anyone's RL pic as their actual pic. It is only since facebook that I've seen more people do it, but still they are the minority. Early on I rarely saw anyone use their RL picture, even in their first life tab.
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The password for my paypal account is: password. The password for my Facebook account is: blahblahblah and the password for my SL account is: yadayadayada. I work on the assembly line at Nucleon Atomic Motor Cars Ltd. The front door is always unlocked and I leave the keys in the glovebox of my unlocked car on the driveway. I live at 123 Any Street, Any Town, Any State, USA. It's great fun! My hobbies are fishing, sliding down ice slides and fishing -)Īn example of an unsafe profile would be: We discovered Second Life after we broke into an abandoned station with a working internet connection. I am a penguin and live in Antarctica with the rest of my flock. Chances are that they're just making up a fabrication about themselves. Furthermore do not, under any circumstances, ever give out any RL information about yourself to anyone in SL who demands it or attempts to trick it out of you by telling you a bit about their RL life as a quid-pro-quo for getting some information out of you. As a matter of fact some would regard that as a challenge. There's no need to make your profile hostile and defensive. Remember that SL, like the rest of the internet, is visited by scammers, stalkers, psychos, datascrapers and other ne'er-do-wells. Post as much or as little RL information about yourself as you are comfortable with. If you're comfortable and desire to, you can share your rl pictures, but there's no reason to feel you have to share any pics at all, sl or rl. It's up to each indidivual to decide what, if anything, to put, and where. You can put whatever you want into either pic section, providing you follow TOS of course. Some people don't like sharing their rl info, even in picture form. Mostly because I just didn't want to, lol. But up until about a year ago, I didn't have any rl pics either. For me my av is simply an extension of me. Some people, like myself, don't separate the two very much, if at all. Some people only separate certain things, or certain areas, but still feel somewhat connected to their avatar.
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Some people do completely separate themselves from their avatar-and are of course free to do so. The long answer would be that for some people SL is exactly that, a second life. So, why is it that there's an abundant lack of real pictures? Is it to keep the guise of roleplay, or, which is most likely, wanting to keep their private life private, which I do understand, but on IMVU there were tons of real life ones compared to here, why is SL different?īut on IMVU there were tons of real life ones compared to here, why is SL different?īecause SL is not IMVU, would be the short answer, best not to compare the two-or any other environment for that matter.
If people use their Second Life avatar in the first life one, what do they put in their second life one? Perhaps it's different for others, since on SL Viewer i didn't notice the 2nd life one, but on Phoenix Firestorm there's the option for it. Also, I've noticed that there's both a First Life picture and a Second Life picture in the the profile. err, two days ago since it's 2:30 in the morning. Is there an unspoken rule against it? What am I supposed to place as my profile picture? I still have a default avatar too, since I just started yesterday. I don't know, perhaps the whole point of Second Life is to live that new, second life, without any connection to your real life, but I've seen more empty profiles than real ones.