Think I might be done with SL. 💔
7 years ago
Yeap...it's been almost 10 years since I started, and I think I may finally have had enough.
It's just not the same anymore.
I'm not sure what it is, if people have changed, or I have changed, or both, or what...but something has.
It used to be I would log in and get swamped with IMs (private messages) from boys wanting to have some fun, whether it be from friends on my friend list or new people I meet in world.
Now, it seems no one has any interest anymore. I'll stand in a crowded gay fur hangout night after night, watching random people and 'friends' come and go without a peep...and when trying to initiate things myself, I mostly get ignored, snapped at or worse. Just tonight I had someone I thought was a 'friend', turn on me in a pretty cold way for asking if they were up for some fun...apparently they could ask me, but I couldn't ask them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So I just can't help wondering what the point is anymore, all it seems to do nowadays is feed my depression and further reduce my virtually non-existent sense of self-esteem.
Anyway...sorry for the negative and kinda ranty journal - but I just had to get it out.
Thank you for reading~ 🖤
It's just not the same anymore.
I'm not sure what it is, if people have changed, or I have changed, or both, or what...but something has.
It used to be I would log in and get swamped with IMs (private messages) from boys wanting to have some fun, whether it be from friends on my friend list or new people I meet in world.
Now, it seems no one has any interest anymore. I'll stand in a crowded gay fur hangout night after night, watching random people and 'friends' come and go without a peep...and when trying to initiate things myself, I mostly get ignored, snapped at or worse. Just tonight I had someone I thought was a 'friend', turn on me in a pretty cold way for asking if they were up for some fun...apparently they could ask me, but I couldn't ask them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So I just can't help wondering what the point is anymore, all it seems to do nowadays is feed my depression and further reduce my virtually non-existent sense of self-esteem.
Anyway...sorry for the negative and kinda ranty journal - but I just had to get it out.
Thank you for reading~ 🖤
FA+

It's a little reassuring to hear it's not just me, at least~
I used to have plenty of fun with that, all without having to rely on other people~ :3
Then I moved into SL and after some time I got the same feeling, though it was more of the no money for furry skins. I have one but I need the mesh for it really, which is about 1K$L
I'd join ya for fun but without the furry stuff I'm not sure, plus my enviroment isn't all that friendly for the stuff I see (FA alone would make my folks flip.)
But to say how you feel about SL, is how I feel about F-list. I ask people to rp only to have silence as a reply, and for some they snap at you for asking rather than just coming up with an IC rp post starter. Or that they want to do a book like post for each one, where as I'm more of rp'ing for fun.
Sorry, Just kind of wanted to point out that while I do book like posts, I don't have a length expectancy. I was there at one point too and it was hell for me trying to find people that would be there for the fun of it
I think it just stems from my writer's side, but I usually have least a paragraph to give when I RP. I just find it fun to do so, becuase I find joy in being creative and I tend to write until there isn't much left for the post ^^;
I often get the same for my Kitsunemimi form (human with fox ears/tail), which I love to be in alot.
But of course, most furs aren't interested in it...or even outright attack it. (I've only been seriously attacked for it once though, usually it's just passive-aggressive BS)
I am a longer poster myself though, because I enjoy that more, as it gives more context and direction to things. (like paragraph-length posts)
I'm always in first-person, as "roleplaying" as myself in third-person just feels weird to me.
Can't remember ever meeting anyone who really HAD to have everything in third though...alot of the time it will just be me in first and the other person in third, which I'm generally fine with. (though I do definitely prefer if the other person speaks in first-person too~)
But I can understand that it's more of a general thing for you, rather than something directed at me personally.
Anyways, will talk to you about this privately~ (Sorry I missed your last IM, I had passed out)
The only things nowadays that really keeps me coming back to it nowadays is it help to work the 'ol creativity gears in my brain, and because of the friends who are practically family to me that have been with me for a long time now.
Feel free to let me know when you need a friendo by your side, okay? ❤
And thank you~ 🖤
But yeah, for the first time I feel I just can't recommend it for new people to get into...and that really sucks.
I'd totally play with ya on SL. But my time there is all over the place XD