How to tell if you’re addicted to Second Life

Time for a humorous look at Second Life (SL)

I have been going through some extreme SL withdrawals…. EEEK! Work load and family commitments, otherwise known as Real Life (RL) have been impeding my access to SL. So, rather than cry a river about what I’m missing, thought I’d get a chuckle while I think about it. So here we go – the signs and symptoms of extreme Second Life addiction:

1. You not only refer to Second Life as SL, but your normal everyday life is now referred to as RL (Real Life) and, people look at you funny because you forget that not everyone is into SL.
2. You are out for a drive and you want to pan your camera to see everything around you but quickly realize that you neck doesn’t quite crank that way and now must go to see the chiropractor for some treatments.
3. You look in your purse (or man purse) to check out your inventory and wonder what attachments you have in there that you need for the day. Same goes for looking for clothes in your closet. No ordinary objects are “objects” anymore – they are “inventory.”
4. You go to the hairdresser for a new hairdo, decide you don’t like it, and then realize you can’t just get another hairstyle off the rack. Guess you should have thought of that before you asked the hairdresser for that mohawk haircut.
5. You dream in technicolor and those dreams are in in SL style, and when it’s a nightmare, your dream crashes.
6. You need to get from here to there very quickly and find yourself looking for the “Teleport button.”
7. While engaging in RL conversations, you find yourself having another dialog occuring simultaneously that incorporates what your SL character would say.
8. You try to run SL on a laptop as much as possible so that the need for interruptions is lessened – like bathroom breaks – just unplug, pick up, sit back down, and keep typing. Alternatively, you start to consider that a diaper might be the best solution to your problem.
9. You think that skinny dipping in SL is the next best thing to chocolate cake, and plan your day around getting there to do it.

Okay… that’s it. I only have eight for now, but I’m certain there are more. Hey.. anyone is welcome to send me more or add them to the comments. I’ll be sure to add them. I just had fun thinking about them and as I think of more, I’ll add them. I also very sure that I haven’t hit my full-fledged addiction yet, so I almost fairly sure that the examples will get more wild and extreme as time goes on.

Catch ya on the flip side!