I know I love raspberry juice. I don’t doubt my love for raspberry juice, I want it as much as I can get it. Luckily it's a healthy love. And nobody questions my love for it... Nobody asks 'but how well do you know it'? I don’t know a thing about it! Have no clue if raspberry juice has thoughts, feelings, where on the political spectre it would place it self. It's unconditional love from me to it :p
Now, falling in love with a communicative, movable being *grins* is different. You can get feedback, share ideas, stuff like that.
Falling in love in a virtual world, is different too. You don’t know who the person is, everything he/she writes to you, could be lies. Some stuff can proven: voice is great for gender-testing, and a lot of other stuff as well. An accent isn't easily faked. But there is still loads we can hide or change in a virtual world: age, social status, history, weight, friends and family, vice and virtues. But the fact that we (more or less) consciously create our avatar gives a lot away, that we don’t have information about in RL.
Some can argue that in a virtual world you only fall in love in a fantasy. Is that different from RL? How much more do we know just because the physical representation is a chance thing, not designed by you. Eh? A fat person can be stigmatised as well as a beautiful. Your looks matter in RL, so much that your surroundings change behaviour towards you because of it. Does that makes it easier to really know the person behind all that, or not?
4 had something to say:
"Tout ce que je sais, c'est que je ne sais rien" - Socrates.
You mentionned that someone can fake many things in virtual world, but he could also easily fake them in real : age (you would need to check his ID card), social status (you would need to check at his job), history (wow, so many things/people to check), etc, etc.
If someone can build a character in virtual world, I don't think you could prevent one to do it in real life.
You build up an "image" of someone from what you see, listen, learn and this works quite the same both in RL & SL.
However everything in SL is much... cheaper. Easier to be good looking, having a good social status with land and prims, hide your vices, or on the contrary explore them freely.
So, just think again about my quote, you could never be sure of anything as we hardly know ourselves first, it's even harder to know other people. Trying to know every detail of other lives won't help you as much as trying not to ask anything that could be faked.
Finally, if you really love someone, I think that one good way to show it is to prove you have faith and want to learn more about the character.
Kisses, Kris.
Socrates writes pretty good French!
yes... I believe that RL and SL aren't that different. But I hear a lot of people telling me that SL makes it so much harder to know the person behind the avatar. I am not sure it is at all... anyway what is it we want to know? What is important? Age? Height? Pesonality (and what is that?)
raspberry juice ????
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