![]() ![]() The main reason is that their SL's are far more glamorous and exciting then their real lives. Most of us log onto Second Life to escape our real lives for awhile then leave our SL's behind when we log off and get on with real life, but for some people their second lives become their real life. Your heart beats fast and the butterflies in your stomach are real." When someone says something negative towards you in a virtual world, you feel the anger or hurt in real life. For instance, if you have a table in front of you in real life, it's not much different then having a table in front of you in a virtual world. You see the items surrounding you in the virtual world as you see the items around you in real life. "When you become a character in a virtual world, you become that character in the sense that you control the movements. Back in 2009, Nikala Diamond, ISL's communications manager, wrote an article for a real life tech magazine about virtual world addictions, explaining that the lines between real life and a virtual world blur because our brains can't decipher between the two. When I asked her if it was possible to simply cut down on her SL time, she replied that she realized she had an addiction to SL. She spent around 16 hours a day on SL and it was affecting her real life. I could always count on her to be online at any given time. ![]() She explained that she needed to walk away from SL for awhile and was not sure if she would ever be back. Last week one of my sim managers left Second Life. ![]()
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