Second Life Stalking! It’s scary stuff….

But it happens. We all know that. What is perhaps somewhat more concerning is the sheer number of devices out there now that enable people to stalk others in Second Life™. You don’t have to look too hard on XStreet to find chat monitors, online/offline indicators, chat to email relay devices and all manner of items.

Ok, so some of these devices have a potentially valuable use, such as recording minutes of a meeting in public chat in Second Life etc. But for the most part, surely it’s common sense that people buying these items will be using them in breach of the Second Life Terms of Service, to monitor others.

And what beggars belief is that fact that some people genuinely have nothing better to do than to attempt to stalk other people. Really… if the most interesting thing that happens in your day is the fact that someone might have admitted having a crush on someone else in a conversation relayed back to you, then I strongly suggest that you get a grip. Who the Hell wakes up in a morning and thinks, “ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG today is going to be amazing because I am going to snoop in at a conversation between lots of people I have never met about lots of other people I have never met?”

And if you really have to monitor your partner for fear of them going off and popping on poseballs with another fella’s pixels, then why are you partnered to them? And don’t get me started on that crap about, “Well I want to know what they’re saying about me.” I can tell you what they’re saying about you. They are saying you are a psycho stalker from Hell for leaving chat relay devices all over their parcel. There, I saved you the job of finding out for yourself.

Second Life stalkers are a very troubled breed. Perhaps there should be some form of rehabilitation clinic for them or a 12 step program to deleting your chat devices. Maybe a support group…. “My name is Psycho… and…. I’m a…. a….gosh I can hardly bring myself to say it. I’m a PSYCHO PIXEL STALKER FROM HELL.”

Anyway… just sayin’.