ok. The end is nigh

Being a RL single person (as opposed to a SL pretend single person) I think the concept of adding more RL details to our profiles is awesome. Anybody who wasn't interested in meeting other RL single people could leave it blank. However, that would not stop the liars and sociopaths from filling out whatever they feel like, just like any other dating site

We went through this discussion on the adult policy. Proving identity is a hard problem online with no present solution.

Just throwing that out there. I don't think that it's a good reason NOT to add the extra RL options. People who wanna lie about it will do that whether there are extra boxes to check or not.

Your world, your imagination, your real-life telephone number.

Hey!

I'm a guy, and I get it. Heck, I met my wife online. On a BBS. In the early '80s, when an online conversation was "you take turns calling up the BBS", and relationships were based on actual conversation... not search results.

Who are you calling human, human?

Errr...

Linden Lab has consistently completely failed to recognize what their niche is, and blow people spending lots of money off in favor of trying to bring in augmentationists... like the whole push for business that's going on now.

This is just more of the same.

What I don't get is how they expect anyone to get through their horrible web site and successfully download the client and log in.

Isn't that like switching from Pizza to Unleaded?

I don't understand the RL/SL connection - is this a virtual world, or isn't it?

They can't even produce an Im client but are working on this?

Great. So even LL knows I got no friggin social life left. None of my alts got this survey. *wanders off to pout*

Not much different to find that 6foot, Elle MacPherson bodied 30yo Professional Single Lady is actually 5' 300pounds unemployed, seperated with 4 kids and looking for the next guy to milk a credit card & half a house from, while still screwing the Ex's.

Or finding out that Cute bunny furry you've been yiffing with is actually just a 20yo human female

LOL!!

If it is any consolation, I haven't received it either. But then my social life died entirely sometime in July . . .

Yeah, "Your world, your imagination, your real-life telephone number."

Umm I haven't seen too many dating sites that list you RL phone number, most you don't even have to provide it to the service, except to verify sometimes.

I don't have any problem with any such system as long as it is opt in. I'm not worried about any single women on SL and in my area finding out I'm also single in the same area as them, skips a lot of game playing crap to connect with potential partners who may or may not be compatible.
If I was worried about it interfering with my main SL life I'd just use an alt.

LIES!

I don't understand the RL/SL disconnect - are we real people playing in a virtual world or not?

Very bad idea. I do not want my RL details in my profile that I don't purposefully place there myself.

I don't think they are proposing forced revelations.

Ok, this I can agree too

Saw this coming with M's Board position the new aol

LMAO

Ditto that. What Kitty said is quite sensible.



This would be my real concern.. whether or not it's info that's just "inserted" by LL (as mentioned by a few people), or whether it'll be an opt-in thing that we have control over. Personally, I wouldn't mind if the fields were made available so that we can fill in what we like, IF we like, but also have a corresponding checkbox to make that info searchable or not (seperate from the searchable profile button). I wouldn't mind sharing a few minor details in there, but I DO NOT want to be automatically placed in that narrowed-down search group that all the A/S/L types will be scouring for RL dates. It's already difficult enough to weed them out now, I certainly don't want to be swarmed by them.

AND, again, it's potentially dangerous. LL wants to be careful here: if they try to make too much public RL information mandatory, it will greatly increase the chance of someone getting hurt in RL.

An optional (relatively) benign and general RL section would be ok with me too. And yes, one should have the option of pulling it out of search -- and more effectively, I hope, than the current system for keeping one's basic profile inaccessible to search.

There's no point making RL information mandatory in any way because they still allow an infinite number of free anoymous alts to anyone, they have no RL information on 99% of SL residents.

So, do you talk about SL everywhere you go in real life?