Mobiles, Cells, Emails, Radios, Forums and SL

Eveline's thread has made me aware that for some people privacy is an essential part of the sl experience. I am not certain if this is a personal preference thingy for a lotta people or a generational mind-shift for people like me, but I am sure many people follow my daily pattern/routine. My 3 mobiles are on, my emails are chundering in, BBCRadio One is thumping out the music and Forums OR SL is humming away. The idea of all this communication ability going to waste is quite frightening.
At night I usually do a couple of hours before I say TTFN world with my mates (girls and otherwise). Is that an English thing or international?
Don't get me wrong but I like my solitude even more when I share it with others.
Any comments or reactions to this?

Agreed: I like your solitude even more when you share it with others.

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I have music on my land (techno, trance, chillout or sometimes alternative rock) so my RL tends to listen to that when I'm hooked up. I am sometimes seen by other people in RL so it's not a 100% private one-on-one thing.

For my RL, Second Life is fairly immersive, I think, so private but not secretive. They are on MSN and Facebook but don't use them much because SL is more fun. Often cats sleep near the comp too.

I have music on my land (techno, trance, chillout or sometimes alternative rock) so my RL tends to listen to that when I'm hooked up. I am sometimes seen by other people in RL so it's not a 100% private one-on-one thing.

For my RL, Second Life is fairly immersive, I think, so it's private but not secretive. They are on MSN and Facebook but don't use them much because SL is more fun. Often cats sleep near the comp too.

Good one!!!

I don't quite grok the people who scream for privacy and solitude in SL either. Solitude is everywhere as we've covered in the recent ghost town thread. They shouldn't have any trouble finding that. And privacy? To me the anonymity equates to privacy - is in fact more private than real life. Even if someone is butting into my (non-existent) private SL activities, he or she won't know who I really am. So what's the big deal?

Not wanting people to see us in SL is like putting up a web page we don't want anyone to see. What's the point? Ok maybe someone would want only a select few to see it. Fine. Trust me, I won't be interested anyway, so I don't begrudge them their pursuit of privacy as long as they're not orbiting me over it.

As for the multi-tasking thing, I think that is generational. I've never been too comfortable with it. I like a little music going, but it has to be wallpaper music, ambient or at least not too complex. But I grew up with progressive rock which was intended to be listened to closely for every nuance of every phrase and you're expected to listen for riffs and phrases that are turned upside down or reversed - so I tend to listen with all my attention to all types of music because of that.

I read somewhere of a study done on multi-tasking with post-generation X'ers. It was hinted that they are really rapidly alternating their focus on the different things going on at once rather than really comprehending them simultaneously. But hey, this is how computers do it too I hear. Time will tell if they really do think in a different way than us geriatric baby boomers.

Darn - there I go with another long winded post.

bumped to make a point

By definition this is impossible.

From Merriam-Webster:

"solitude

1 : the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion 2 : a lonely place (as a desert)
synonyms solitude isolation seclusion mean the state of one who is alone. solitude may imply a condition of being apart from all human beings or of being cut off by wish or circumstances from one's usual associates <a few quiet hours of solitude>."

Really? Being lonely on your own is one thing but I find feeling lonely in a crowd is quite horrid!

Isn't multi- tasking supposed to be a female skill?