Miss Manners

I hate to ask this, especially since I don't think this is the best place to ask, but here goes:

Is it odd, wierd, strange...that i don't like to explore someones homestead without asking permission? Or that I'm not all that comfortable with 'scanning' someone's profile on the DL Or that, as proud as i am of my own homestead, and want to share it with others; it still freaks me out when i'm sitting around in my underwear, and some guy flies through the window with a sword laced to his back?

I think I have some RL inhibitions to works through.

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dont feel weird, i always IM friends and see what's goin on, before i tp in on them, and i never just fly into someone's place, uninvited. i wish more folks would feel the same way.

I have to agree with you. I enjoy meeting people but it's one of my pet peeves when someone just flies right into my home and thinks they can make themselves comfortable. At least knock first.

I agree... I always ask someone if it is alright that I come to them or that is okay to offer an TP to someone.

I only enter public places or houses of very good friends without premission. Although if I see I building I like, I may have a walk around it.

Profiles I do look at, for me it just as I would study some and take a closer look... but I am aware that a profile can offers a lot information about someone.

Morwen.

Say a HI in IM.. then if OK ask for an tp.. or if you are outside say a simple ”knock knock”... hello may I....

I dont enter a private home IRL by my own - why should I in SL?

IF you fly by a home that you like.. and nobody are home. I never walk in but I can have a closer look through the windows... not step in... and if i like it a lot I also send and IM and tell that!

I use usual IRL manners..

Have fun! SL can be fun..


/Tina

I absolutely agree....I don't enter someone's private property without permission, and as a house owner I'm usually more than happy to give a tour to perfect strangers who are flying/sailing by my home.

I think profiles are a different matter. I don't put up anything on my profile that I'm not comfortable with anyone seeing. I would love it if SL had an additional profile section that only Friends could see.....Feature Vote, anyone?

When I HAD a home I was thrilled if anyone showed interest enough to look around and people were always welcome to come and go as they pleased.

With that being said, I also don't feel comfortable just walking into what is obviously a 'home'.

My neighbor in Cecropia has a house I wanted a closer look at....so I flew up to it.....peeked in the windows, and then proceded to 'CAM' my way around the place...It didn't seem as bad as my AV tromping up and down the steps of her home while she was gone

And as I suspected she had it decorated beautifully.....and I bet she'd love to hear that. BUT I hate to even say...yeah I snuck a peak while you were out.

Edited to add.....profiles are different. We set up our profiles as a mini introduction to others, ABOUT ourselves. I think we all want others to take a look if we took the time to put something there.

This is a great discussion! I know there are a lot of people who fly into houses un-announced, but they are mainly new residents who aren't sure how things go in SL, or people who maybe don't have the hang of the flying controls yet, I know it took me a while.

However it is a shame so many people feel to need to put up the no entry bars to ensure no one flying in.

I'll move this to General, where I think it'll be better suited and get more attention.

I never enter someone else's builds uninvited if there's someone 'home', or if it appears they've deliberately made it difficult for others to enter. I do check out builds when no one is there, though. I figure, if they went through the effort to build it, they may want to show it off a bit.

I realize there's no real privacy in SL, and that anything I say or do may very well be seen or heard by others, but I still think it's just common courtesy to offer people some reasonable semblance of privacy and their own space.

I agree totally here, this is why i have my property at times blocked from the population I hate doing it but i get stuff like that all the time, for instance some guy flew onto my property and started shooting me, he did this so much he managed to log me out then i banned him from my property but managed to keep coming back I always ask to to hang out, over or be invited.