Socially|Mundane

I've been thinking about my favorite pet-peeves of Second Life for a while now. No, I don't mean all the Linden Lab SNAFUs or the Second Life Viewer bugs or the general wonky nature of the Second Life Grid.

I'm referring to those things in-world, usually the cause of which are residents themselves. So I am going to work my way through my top-ten pet-peeves list. But rather than just plop a bullet lists here, I'm hoping to elaborate on each, so you know why it's a pet-peeve. And that if any apply to you directly, you'll understand why it's a pet-peeve and so irritating not only to me, but likely many, many others who come into your presence.

Number three my list are "entitlement attitudes".


Even though Linden Lab opened up account registrations to the masses at large at no charge, calling them 'basic' accounts, even though the freebie craze has made a huge chunk of all items available for sale in-world complete junk or outright stolen, even though many of these "no payment info on file' people are contributing positively to the Second Life economy, there are still far too many idiots with entitlement attitudes.

The "world owes me" crowd are who Obama/Biden were catering to during the recent presidential elections and who the European Union, Canadian government, United Kingdom government... hell, most world governments all cater to.

It's been done before, folks. They called it socialism and the grand experiment was known as the CCCP (Roman: SSSR) - Russian for Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. (Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik.)

Okay - the point being that everyone seems to think they are owed anything, whether they've earned or not, whether it was promised or not. It is the 'me, me, me' attitude that is so prevalent in Second Life - even more than the real world.

One of my biggest gripes has always been to lash-back at people who whine with a shrill voice at Linden Lab every-time something goes awry with the grid and they proclaim how much money they've lost because it's their real life income.

Okay folks, this is really stupid. Who, in there right mind creates a business that is 100% relying on another business and they have absolutely no control, no say or any sway with that other business whatsoever?

These 'brilliant' people are so enamored with themselves that they even believe their own diatribe:

Second Life Herald:: "Some residents are speculating that by forming a virtual organization to raise funds for legal action against Linden Lab, they may be able to recover what they claim are significant monetary damages suffered due to the OpenSpace sim price increases recently announced by the Lab."

One word here, in the plural: baffoons.

I've written on this subject often, and as to the specific idea of relying on anything Second Life for your first life: be careful.

The first reason you are absolutely foolish to even think Linden Lab owes you anything whatsoever is that you think Linden Lab has promised you anything at all. They haven't.

Not only has Linden Lab not promised you anything - in writing or otherwise, but in the terms of service, (service you get for free, by the way,) Linden Lab specifically states that they not only don't owe you squat, but they can revoke anything and everything they allow you to have without cause or reason or explanation.

On a whim.

Now, take this entitlement attitude and spread it among the rest of the population in varying degrees. These people are my irritant. That is my pet-peeve.

To everyone in Second Life: don't look the gift horse in the mouth.

quote courtesy of Second Life Herald