In a nutshell - What is this about?

I created this blog for those who are interested on Internet Addiction and my request to Linden Lab to display a cautionary note mentioning Internet Addiction to the people signing in.

After all this time, this has become just a way to place this on the conversation. This is in a nutshell all I strive for.


Your liberty to read or leave its not denied on this space.


Virtual communities have enormous potential and will be part of many people's life's and work. So we need to take a thoughtful approach towards this. SL has an extraordinary pull and this phenomenon can result in dramatic damage to people who develop an addictive attachment to them.

  1. People joins in with no knowledge of this phenomenon
  2. Awareness of a danger helps reduce its potential harm
  3. Any tool to display this reality, might prevent those who read it

All ideas an opinions are welcome, posts with foul or offensive language might be deleted. Some information and videos might be disturbing for some people please be advised.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

What are the worse addictive factors in your opinion?

Several, one of them its the anonymity of platform. This provides great possibilities but also enhances people behaving differently than they do in real life.

After that, having the possibility of being a ideal being and the immersible nature of the place, come in.

In particular I have noticed that the attachment to people, specially the "Human Emotion Furnace Effect" its the single most potent addictive component. For some reason this place allows great openness and adventures into the mind that open the door for the verisimilitude (the appearance of truth) of the relations. In simpler words cybersex and cyberlove are one of the main addictive triggers of SL Addiction. This all in my personal opinion.

I have to mention that I need no more rivals and antagonists on this topic, so until now I had kept to myself this observation, call it an hypothesis.
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