sl community full of deviants?

I've been on SL for 4 years (2nd account) off and on. I've always come across people who lie. Wether it be about their age, their looks, their life, their occupation, even down to their genders.

I feel really lucky because I met my fiance from SL, and in this sea or cess pool rather, of dishonesty, filth, and cheap virtual hookers I met him. We discussed how we've both been lied to on SL, by people who supposedly cared about us, etc. Neither of us came to SL looking for relationships, but it happened that way. Both of us got lied to. It was neat to develop a friendship then meet and then develop a real relationship. So that is the ONE thing I'm thankful for in SL, is meeting my fiance.

But he's quit SL ages ago due to the reasons above, the liars, the freaks, the deviants. I'm borderline ready to quit. I mean why do you think the community lies so much? Men are women, women are men, kids are adults, adults are kids, the whole community is full of dishonesty, cheaters, liars.

I was surprised to see a poll on here a while back where most people said it was okay to have a RL and SL relationship, as long as the RL lover doesn't know. How sad is that?

Well the point of this is, do you think SL has gone downhill the more popular it gets, and I don't mean downhill because of lag, or scams, or anything, but the values of the community? When I first joined there was maybe 30 or so sims, I recall 2 of them having sexual things you could buy, nowadays it's almost every sim. There's predators and maniacs, pedos, beastiality, it's just like SL attracts many bad people from society. From compulsive liars to deviants.

Do you agree with any of this? Have you ever been lied to or found out someone you were friends with or even more, was really a creepy ass in real life?

The morality of SL is going downhill so fast, that in a couple of years it may be as bad as RL. A couple years after that, it may be as bad as Congress.

For the most part, this could describe RL just as well as SL. There's good with the bad and if you're no longer experiencing that, then you should quit.

I should get out more in SL.
It seems I'm missing all the fun

yea the world is full of them, not just SL

but at what point is it not a lie

do you look like that 20 something year old super model your av is?

Yes, it is always easier to see the bad rather than the good. If you are always looking down at the crap, you miss the butterflies and rainbows above.

I've been socializing with people over the internet for about 20 years now, going back to IRC, MUSHes, and MMORPGs.

Actually, very few people find it fun to just use the internet to create an exact replica of the real world. People my vary as to the extent of the creative license they take online. But most people enjoy that creative license.

Forums exist for you to meet people who appear exactly as they are in real life. These forums are all real life, not virutal forums. (And there is still a lot of creative license in real life.)

For some they get to be whomever they want to be, even if it's fantasy.
There are honest people like myself who will say I am transexual,etc.
but truthfully I also very selective in who I am the closest too.
Not everyone has desire to be a open book, truthful about their lives, they aren't obligated to do so just because they are in SL or where ever they exist.
Sometimes the truth isn't pretty and the lies make the person feel like they be more interesting.
I know there are people here who say they are something they aren't, usually its pretty obvious and truthfully I don't really care.
I have other things that are more important to me like does the person make interesting
designs, buildings, avatars,etc.
I haven't ever quite done that but their are even times I omit things because no one's business I don't go up to every stranger I see on the streets of Seattle and tell them hey you see me with beard guy but under my clothes I got something else.
Because no one else's business unless I choose to share that with them.
It isn't a lie to be who I present myself to be even when I present the world as male, because I am male regardless of what others think.

The OP forgot to include self righteous judgementals who want to decide what values are correct for everyone else.

SL is made up of people and it will reflect the differences in personality, values and interests in the same proportion it does in RL. It's easy to find the negative. But it's more rewarding to seek out the positive.

<-- Deviant

Can I get a ride with you to the next meeting?

Dood, we have meetings?

Speaking of deviant activities....
I don't normal partake in them as I use to until recently I got some very nice private parts for a female friend and myself from Winter.
Was very good price and the male part is hideable.
Only thing I wish I could do which isn't working right is ablity to pee in world for some reason particles have been boinked recently.
I really like watering flowers.
From where I am I don't get really partake in enough deviant activities too busy creating stuff.

SL hasnt changed over the years except in population. Well bugs maybe hehe

I like deviants!

i know i'v seen this in world in a pose ball, urinating off of a pier. i suggest having a look a round, not a bad animation with sound and particle effects.

FD, check your particle settings on your client.. also look around your area for OTHER particles, and alpha textures. If you're in a large area with a lot of particles, and a lot of overlapping alpha textures (like a garden) you may find that the urine particles are actually vanishing "behind" the trees.

At least a few people see it. I know RL is not much better, but SL tends to bring out the worst in people because they can get away with all of the lying and deceit. For me, my chars have been pretty close to what I am irl, but what I am speaking of is deeper then that.

It's someone walking around with a female av and forming relationships with men or lesbians all the while they're really men IRL, or people lying about their age, etc.

Maybe I'm one of the few who values truth these days, and there is no set standard for values, but you know, it's pretty obvious when someones just a scumbag because they're into sick abnormal things.

Anyway if you want to go around lying or screwing animals or kid avs or whatever other sick shit you can come up with it's your choice but imo it just makes SL community look really awful.

/me brings the lawn chairs and scotch over from the sub/slave thread and sets them up waiting for the fireworks.

*yawns*

Substandard troll is substandard.

And have a prostate exam. You owe it to yourself.

I'm a drivin' the bus - wheeee!

I thought this thread had great potential until I read it.

Cum works beautifully it just the other commands but I will check that.
Usually I have particles pretty low and don't have tons of transparent stuff around but I do have pose I had friend made, tried to make my own version of stand and pee but it required fabric change,etc.
So with your penis I was hoping would replace this and prevent me from searching for things and having to find textures in my inventory every time I wanted to water the lawn, grass or the rug
I will check the other things too.
Thanks.
Sorry to OP, back to regular scheduled discussion.

Well, we also know you believe in truth in advertising. ( /me looks at user title below Salem's name)

Don't go yet. It still may happen........