How ~active~ are you while inworld? (^_^)

Just being inworld is busy for me!

I am completely immersed in world. The only thing I do remotely like multitasking is checking these forums, but I usually do that first, then log in.

I do not own a TV as I despise the noise and the idiots yelling at me to buy something, but I do watch some shows on my computer (Ghost Hunters being a personal favorite just 'cause it's fun). This is a separate activity from SL. Why would I want to be logged in while I'm doing something else? I don't want to be interrupted in SL, likewise I don't want a show or movie to be interrupted.

Same goes for my music. I can use music as background, but I like to spend a couple of nights a week really listening. This means doing nothing else - maybe following the score of an orchestral work if I have it. No - SL for those times either. I'd be really miffed if an IM "t-ting" messed up a great Beethoven passage I was focused on.

Our era of multitasking is a ruse. We do not really do more than one thing at a time -- we shift our focus rapidly. Even computers do this. I believe eventually we will lose our focus.

That makes it so hard to be in SL. Constantly being called away, sometimes the 'emergency' scream of mom or a fight between them, and you go running afk without telling anyone....At least that is my life.

People with 3-4+ kids all within a couple or few years of one another are really working hard.

When I'm in, I'm all the way in. Occasionally, if I'm just waiting around for friends to show up, I'll tab back and forth between SL and something else (usually the forums!). I've always got Firefox open, though, and often when I'm chatting with people, I'll grab links or check Wikipedia or whatever for stuff.

When I log in I usually just putz around half here/half afk for the first hour or so.. check messages, finish up with RL stuff, maybe turn on some music or do that last minute run to the store while idling. Once I sit down to play though, I'm all here in SL and pretty active.. even if it's only actively being bored sometimes

i am very involved when i log in. but, i don't get to log in often or for long when i do, so i make the most of my time.

As someone above mentioned, there is far much to engage me in SL to be distracted by RL.

When I venture into SL, I'm focused on whatever SL activity I am engaged in. I never log in for "something to do" or "just to be social".

Mind, I often log in with a list of things "to do" and end up distracted by other things. /me chuckles.

I have been building lately but I always seem to have at least two or three group IMs going.

I wish there were a way to selectively shut off IMs while 'working' in world.

When I am chilling in SL I might have forums open or surf the web or do some work on the computer, or read/answer email.

I don't have the tv on, as I can't look two places at once and I like to watch tv if at all, when I can do nothing else. Otherwise it's just noise. Sometimes I have itunes on, though.

Damn! I read the title question and thought it was going to be a Kinsey-esque survey!.

Then the first entry I saw when I clicked to penetrate the thread was:

and my hopes were aroused and I wondered if it was going to be the Friday thread . . .

Pep ( . . . but then it descended into another chapter of "Housewifes' Complaints". )

So, you penetrated what you anticipated to be a Kinsey-esque situation and found talk of choppers and now you are simply slinking away?

Immy ( Maybe you've expected too much too soon and pulled out early. =^-^= )

I live alone in reality - sometimes a close female friend stays in my guesthouse. That means I can plonk around from room to room and pretty well do as I like. I dont have kids and I dont have pets - not even a goldfish. I come on sl most often with an objective in mind - sometimes sexual self-gratification and often meeting my partner. I rarely - rarely - go to clubs or dance halls. I dont enjoy "events". I am not into "da' scene" coz I can get all I want of that in reality. I will visit art galleries and I'll hang around my place but as soon as my partner goes off so do I - and vice versa.

I must say that the list of complaints about kids alerts me to remember my birth control. Why do so many people have kids in reality when they seem to be such little jerks? Birth control is readily available these days.

interesting. not into "da scene" because you can get all that you want of it in reality. but you come inworld to have sex and/or meet your partner. not much choice then to surmise that you are unable to get either in reality, so, really, sounds like the birth control would be pretty much unnecessary.

(hmmm... rereading the second to last sentence one would be led to believe that you, yourself, are a kid)