is it just me or are people's profiles becoming increasingly hostile?

Beeing busy arraging a lot of tiny prims for a new build and having people pop into your field of view unnanounced can be annoying too.
Its as rude as popping unannouced into any ones living room, friend or not.
I follow the closed door rule, if the door is closed i "knock"
Maybe hard to understand for our most pious member of SL but theres more than sex you want not to be distrubed by.

i'm feeling left out. no one ever maps me. no one is really that rude to me. people rarely make sexual advances. everyone i meet either has a blank profile or a nice one. except some of the merchants with the OMG DON'T IM ME AND NO I WON"T GIVE YOU A REFUND stuffs. I just ignore them and maybe i don't buy their stuffs. but otherwise peeps are kinda nice. wtf? do i just meet the wrong people?

Talking about mapping and only ppl you've exchanged cards with being able to do it....?
WRONG!!! A guy IMe'd me the other day (who i've NEVER met or exchanged cards with) asking about a group i'm in, and after letting him have some information, i thought that was it.

About 5 minutes later as i was in the living room, WOOSH!..........there he was.he'd mapped me. when i asked Live Help about it, the answer was anyone can map you from your profile. When asked how long this ability has been available, i was told, 'forever'. Sorry, but that's a new one on me......anyone else have it happen?

To be honest i'd never noticed the 'show on map' button on profiles until this happened

It's not possible.

ALL YOU F'N PROFILE HUMPERS STAY OUTTA MY PROFILE, purty f'n please.

most likly he got it form your profile, lot of people have pictures they storein there proficle with location set in there home, for example, look if you have somehting like that

Every single person I have seen with a "No Drama" note in their profile is the kind of person that seeks it out like a crackhead does his next high.

LOL this thread made my day.. i haven't laughed this hard in a long time, but i know what Ingrid is talking about i have a friend who has DON'T MAP ME OR I'LL CUT YOUR CARD!!! in her profile.. i was like woah when i saw it.. who pissed her off.. but we all just tease her about it now and threaten to map her

When your concentrating on solving a highly annoying prim puzzle and the first three popped into your field of view and you had to leave edit, tell the to scurrie of and return to edit you understand.
There are a pletora of situation i can think about beside cyb0r where people popping in is simply annoying.
I respect closed doors in SL and expect that others pay me the same respect.

In my Picks tab i prepared a FAQ section showing what i will and will not do. Like I won't give you money, but i will talk to you. O.o People don't even bother to read profiles anyway so i don't know why i bother...

My profile says...

I DO NOT REPLY TO IM'S IF ALL YOU SAY IS 'HI'! SPEAK UP!
I have aspergers disorder so conversation can be hard for me.

Yet i STILL get people just saying "HI" in online and even offline IMs... I don't respond to them cuz you never know if the next thing they say is something negative that you dont wish to hear. or they might be begging for something you don't have or wan't to give.

I also dislike being mapped. I was Yiffing (cyber sex in furry terms) in a private area the other day and 3 of my friends 1 after the other mapped me and got ejected. They IM me like "what just happened?" And i reply "you just mapped me without asking. Thats what you get..."

Well, you don't tell them not to say "Hi", just that you won't respond, so it's hard to fault them. However, if they get indignant that you don't reply then that's their problem.

I confess to not knowing what you mean by "mapped". You can't really tell when someone checks out your location on the map, can you? Only if they decide to teleport right on top of you can you assume that you were mapped (and then it's only an assumption, not a certainty).

She's speaking informally, I'm sure. You can't tell when someone maps you, but you sure as hell can tell when someone pops in right on top of you, eh?

(As it is, I map people all the time without teleporting myself, but for good reason. Sometimes you can tell they're somewhere where they'd rather not be disturbed that way without even having to bug them.)

I teleport to friends all the time. If you don't want me to, you can always revoke the friendship or delete my card... if I teleport to someone and they're er... "busy", I apologise and leave... OK, usually, a tp about half a sim away to be sure, but not always...

And the "IM me first" thing... heh, if people responded in a timely manner, maybe...

If you were on my friends list mapping me... you'd be TP'd home before you could apologize. Doesn't matter what I am doing, it's rude.

And who are you to determine how quickly I should respond to your beck and call?

You are why the feature needs a toggle.

Pounce i don't remember never saying i didn't understand because i do i don't mapped ppl, i may check to see where a friend might be on the map but i don't tp to them without asking first reguardless of what they might be doing cyber sex or not which i never mentioned. I'm not gonna cut a friend's card if they do happen to pop in on me, i may in the future ask them to let me know if they wanna come over but my friends are usually good about asking first and not just poping in.

Yea i was refering to using the map to teleport to me. I wil be glad when this problem is salved without having to delete friendships. Anyway I have a alt account and on their profile it says to direct all IMs to Yiffy Yaffle and that i do not reply with the alt account. Someone IMed the alt anyway today lol... And guess waht the ysaid? "HI" lol... It amazes me how many people never read profiles. Sometimes the avatar doesn't express very much you know? Usually when i see a interesting avatar or name i look at their profile and find out more about them, But thats just me. :/

What's that supposed to mean, HUH?! WANNA FIGHT?!

Sorry...
Personally i think removing the "show on map" could be removed.
Who needs it anyways, the polite thing is to ask if i can pay you a visit and you sent me a tp with two mousclicks, hell they could add an send teleport buttong to the IM window.

Then I'd delete your card.... I don't need people like you.

And who am I? I'm the person telling you you have an attitude problem... You seem very self important for a newbie.

I don't see the problem with just opening profiles and looking thru them. People can fill out what they want. I enjoy opening people's profiles and looking at them. And yes, I even IM people on what's in their profiles. But only if they have something in there that I really like. If I don't like what I read, I just close it.

As for the 1st life part, I'm reluctant to give out details of my 1st life to anyone who can R-click. I don't have anything mean or nasty for the people who are curious, just a bit of humor. I don't ask RL details other than maybe which country or timezone because of time differences. But if the other person is reluctant to answer that I understand.

PS

As for mapping, eek!

If I IM and receive no answer, then I assume that the other person is busy with something, they will either answer before I log off or they won't. If I want the person with me, I invite; if they want me w/ them they invite.

If my RL mother was in SL, I would possibly map her because she'd just be playing casino games. But she isn't so, I wouldn't map anyone else.

s'ok Pounce and actuallly that's not a bad suggestion if they can do flexi prims! then why not a tp button in the IM window! WOOT!