Do you use your own RL social media in SL?

[HeathcliffMontague]

Reason I ask is I have encountered folks who ask me for my FB or other stuff. Used to be in SL (I'm not that old, going on seven years in here), where even what country you're from demanded at least a modicum of conversation. Not to mention that my female friends tell me that the first guys ask for is personal info.

Don't get me wrong, I'm from the top of Europe just a short flight from polar bears, and have friends from Canada to Egypt, that's the wonder of SL. But when did it get so directly personal?

[MoiraKathleen]

I do very little social media stuff in RL to begin with, and the little that I do on FB is mainly all just family with a few close longtime friends.  So, I don't share any RL social media with anyone in SL.  I don't see any reason to do so, and I don't see any reason to have additional social media accounts as my avatar.  

[Madelaine McMasters]

SL is my social media.

[Rowan Amore]

32 minutes ago, HeathcliffMontague said:

female friends tell me that the first guys ask for is personal info

Most are doing that to ascertain whether you are an actual female somehow.  None of which is relevant if it's the first time they've talked to me.  Any information that might be relevant is already in my first life tab.  Married, female EST (SLT +3).  Anything else, why?

Even if I still had a RL Facebook account, no way in hell would anyone in SL have that information.  Same with any other RL social media (which I don't have, btw).  I do have a Twitter on my SL account.  That's it.

[Blaise Glendevon]

I keep a strict division between SL social media (Flickr, Insta) and RL social media (FB, Insta, Twitter, etc.). No one is entitled to a scrap of information about my First Life, and while I'm not reclusive or hypervigilant about letting people know about some areas, people I just met are certainly not going on my FB with my aunts and cousins. 

[Love Zhaoying]

11 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

SL is my social media.

And Snugs is yours! Or vice-versa. As we all are.

[Scylla Rhiadra]

16 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:

I do have a Twitter on my SL account.  That's it.

/me runs off to find you

[Rowan Amore]

8 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

/me runs off to find you

Not THIS account.  It's on an old avatar I don't use anymore.  

[Stephanie Misfit]

Asking for your Facebook straight up, crazy, what right do they have to know your real life name and location? Creeps.

I don't even have any social media to share but I certainly wouldn't if I had it. I share real life info with my friends but I get pretty annoyed when guys open a conversation by asking personal real life questions.

I notice a lot of guys want your Discord straight away when they talk to you these days, why? We can talk on SL. I do share that with the occasional friend and business partner but that's it.

 

 

[Solar Legion]

I've got my Steam and discord listed on my First Life tab. On those, you don't get much outside information on me. Heck the latter I often use for "play" if I'm not on SL but one of my friends or playmates wishes to do so!

Beyond that? Nope! No need.

[HeathcliffMontague]

55 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

SL is my social media.

Got a new sign for you. Greetings from up here 

 

[Sid Nagy]

Sid doesn't do social media, neither do I actively.
I read the 60L$ weekend sales on Facebook, but don't have an account there and I follow a few news sites on Twitter, I never tweet.

[HeathcliffMontague]

1 hour ago, Rowan Amore said:

Most are doing that to ascertain whether you are an actual female somehow.

 

 

Yeah I have heard that. Some women I know in SL know the difference between a 55 or a 57 Chevy blower motor. Yet I know they are women, as we've spent night after night talking. I know the names of their dogs... I could target them on Google Maps were I so inclined. Which I am obviously not. Just a "sigh". Whatever happened to patience.

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[Scylla Rhiadra]

The only social media accounts I have are for SL: Facebook (which I barely use), Twitter (which is under Laskya's name), and Discord.

It's actually useful: it gives me a window into the world of social media without having to commit my RL identity to any of them. It's much easier to ignore Facebook when I have no RL friends or family there.

[colleen Criss]

IRL I have no social media. Any social media I have is strictly attached to  SL.

[Kimmi Zehetbauer]

I'm free of of SocialVid03. Never used them and never will --- except for MeWe for a short period. Some in SL use them.

[Cali Souther]

1 hour ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

/me runs off to find you

 

1 hour ago, Rowan Amore said:

Not THIS account.  It's on an old avatar I don't use anymore.  

No wonder... I couldn't find either one of you 🤣

[kali Wylder]

No.  I don't use social media in my real life name.  My real life info is not available on the internet. I don't really have much use for social media anyway.  I read, but I don't post much.

[Scylla Rhiadra]

9 minutes ago, Cali Souther said:

 

No wonder... I couldn't find either one of you 🤣

Fixed.

[Sorciaa]

 

[Charalyne Blackwood]

I have no social media. That would require me to be social.

 

 

*runs away and hides in a rather impressive pillow an blankie fort munchin popcorns and pretending I have force fields for stoppin da bad guys*

[Madelaine McMasters]

38 minutes ago, Charalyne Blackwood said:

*runs away and hides in a rather impressive pillow an blankie fort munchin popcorns and pretending I have force fields for stoppin da bad guys*

...starts a little campfire outside your fort, leaves a bag of marshmallows and some long sticks, then hides behind a tree until you let your guard down and come out*

 

 

*little devils eat force fields for breakfast

[Love Zhaoying]

7 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

...starts a little campfire outside your fort, leaves a bag of marshmallows and some long sticks, then hides behind a tree until you let your guard down and come out*

 

 

*little devils eat force fields for breakfast

..dumps a large bag of daddy long legs out by the snacks..

[Rolig Loon]

I have no social media accounts, so nothing to share.  And if I had any, I still wouldn't.  My SL and RL don't talk to each other.

[Madelaine McMasters]

11 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

..dumps a large bag of daddy long legs out by the snacks..