How often are you in-world?

[Mercury Witch]

That's the question, how often are you actually in-world vs how much time do you spend here?

I'm in world on a daily from late October till early April, then it becomes a gamble on wether or not I have time to log in, when April comes around I put my account in what I refer to as lock down, I remove any and all information from it and change the password.

While on the forums I try to log in on a daily to weekly basis depending on what's happened in/to SL.

[Cinnamon Mistwood]

I log inworld 2 or 3 times a week. I work a full time job, so I don't get to sit at my laptop all day every day. I'm not retired or on any kind of disability.

I check in on the forums more since i have my phone. I dont read them every day, but during a lunch break some days when i have time. Lately, the forums have not been as fun, so I'm checking in a bit less often.

[Jordyn McGregor]

I used to be inworld from the moment I woke up till the moment I went to bed.  Addicted was an understatement.  Then through the convergence of a really bad break up, computer dying and RL move, my addiction was broken and I went for days without logging in. 

Now I'll log in when I wake to spend a couple of hours with my partner, log out when he does unless I have shopping to do (cos SHOPPING!), and then I might log back in for an hour or two before I go to bed to do a blog pic and maybe more shopping.  

So might still seem like a lot of time, but going from 12+ hours daily to maybe 5 a day....vast improvement. 

[Gopi Passiflora]

Quite often. I often idle for hours at social areas like London City, Ahern, and Social Island.

...I know what you're thinking about this already.

[Mercury Witch]

17 minutes ago, Jordyn McGregor said:

I used to be inworld from the moment I woke up till the moment I went to bed.  Addicted was an understatement.  Then through the convergence of a really bad break up, computer dying and RL move, my addiction was broken and I went for days without logging in. 

Now I'll log in when I wake to spend a couple of hours with my partner, log out when he does unless I have shopping to do (cos SHOPPING!), and then I might log back in for an hour or two before I go to bed to do a blog pic and maybe more shopping.  

So might still seem like a lot of time, but going from 12+ hours daily to maybe 5 a day....vast improvement. 

Yeah, I'd say realistically about 5hrs, if that is what I spend too, maybe less? Depends on where my head is at that day or how much work I have to do

[Chery Amore]

Lately I've been in what I consider to be a lot. Pretty much daily, at least 5 times a week for 2 hours or more.  I have to have things to do in SL or I go do something else.  For entertainment that's usually a game.  But right now it's SL.. inventory cleaning, putting together outfits, and organizing in preparation for the next round of credits/ holiday stuff and advent gifts.  Usually I spend time with my bf at least twice a week in SL... sometimes more or less, sometimes it's only that.   Projects drive me here too .. like having a new house to furnish or making a scene ect.  If I'm engaged with and helping a community that can drive me to be here too.  But for that there has to be a reason and a sense of belonging, and appreciation, not just doing grunt work for someone.
The worst thing for me is to hang around and hope something happens.  I'm pretty sure I'll be here a lot at least till January, then who knows?  I might be logging in one or two times a week again until I get excited about some other project.

I seem to go back and forth with the forums since I started coming. Sometimes pretty often, sometimes just lurking, sometimes not looking for weeks. 
 

[Stephanie Misfit]

I log in most days, but not for very long at the moment. The weekend sales are a ritual though, I spend a bit of time in world shopping those every week.

[Midnoot]

4 hours ago, Mercury Witch said:

That's the question, how often are you actually in-world vs how much time do you spend here?

I'm in world on a daily from late October till early April, then it becomes a gamble on wether or not I have time to log in, when April comes around I put my account in what I refer to as lock down, I remove any and all information from it and change the password.

While on the forums I try to log in on a daily to weekly basis depending on what's happened in/to SL.

Every single day for 4-5 hours, for almost 2 decades. I would be here double that if I didn't have to be a slave in rl .

I always found it kinda annoying that people spend more time on the forums talking about the game more than actually BEING in the game . I typically find myself engaging more deeply in the nuances of SL's in world activities and options than most of the forumites who spend more time talking about second life than actually BEING in second life as well. 

It doesn't distract me from reality , it's not an addiction. When I have to do stuff in real life , I afk and p*ss off  all the adhd losers who think we should always be present and never afk and start crying cause I didn't immediately respond to them .

The lack of stress inducing factors in second life make it very easy to be there for long periods of time , just creating , customizing , socializing , exploring , etc , at your own pace . So yee, I live in second life practically .

 

 

 

 

Edited November 25 by Midnoot

[Stephanie Misfit]

55 minutes ago, Midnoot said:

Every single day for 4-5 hours, for almost 2 decades. I would be here double that if I didn't have to be a slave in rl .

I always found it kinda annoying that people spend more time on the forums talking about the game more than actually BEING in the game . I typically find myself engaging more deeply in the nuances of SL's in world activities and options than most of the forumites who spend more time talking about second life than actually BEING in second life as well. 

It doesn't distract me from reality , it's not an addiction. When I have to do stuff in real life , I afk and p*ss off  all the adhd losers who think we should always be present and never afk and start crying cause I didn't immediately respond to them .

The lack of stress inducing factors in second life make it very easy to be there for long periods of time , just creating , customizing , socializing , exploring , etc , at your own pace . So yee, I live in second life practically .

 

 

 

 

I think we have some users here on the forums who no longer log into SL at all, and quite a few who barely use it. Makes me wonder what the appeal is here for them, it's not like you can talk about a wide range of topics without risking thread deletion.

[Arielle Popstar]

3 minutes ago, Stephanie Misfit said:

I think we have some users here on the forums who no longer log into SL at all, and quite a few who barely use it. Makes me wonder what the appeal is here for them, it's not like you can talk about a wide range of topics without risking thread deletion.

Some of us find there is more community in the forums then there is inworld so there isn't the need to log in there as we get what we need in the forums. That is what I am finding lately as my inworld time has dropped from 10-12 hours daily to a couple hours a week in the past year. 

[Paul Hexem]

Sometimes almost not at all, sometimes a couple hours a day if I have a good project to complete.

[Arielle Popstar]

7 minutes ago, Paul Hexem said:

Sometimes almost not at all, sometimes a couple hours a day if I have a good project to complete.

I'd be curious with many commercial creator types what the breakdown in between them running their inworld business vs actually socializing inworld with other residents, sightseeing or even shopping for their avatar etc.

[animats]

Far less often than I used to. Things are so quiet.

I helped with an effort to liven up Port Babbage, but few people ever showed up. We looked into getting a space at the Community Exhibition, but almost nobody ever goes there. I have it in Region Tracker, and only twice have I seen the avatar count above zero. And one of those was someone who was just there to change clothes alone. The new user arrival rate at WelcomeHub is way down, too.

I used to get walk-in traffic at my shop in Vallone, but now that's rare. So much of Kama City is vacant.

The concurrent user count keeps going down. Will SL ever see 50,000 concurrent users again?

Tonight, I went to WelcomeHub, walked to the Linden Homes area with the train station, rezzed a train, and let it carry me to the station nearest my house in Belli. Got off and walked home. Yawn.

 

 

[Scylla Rhiadra]

Depends on the time of year, but generally pretty close to daily. The amount of time varies.

[Paul Hexem]

1 hour ago, Arielle Popstar said:

I'd be curious with many commercial creator types what the breakdown in between them running their inworld business vs actually socializing inworld with other residents, sightseeing or even shopping for their avatar etc.

For me a project is a motivator, but I already have a full time job in real life, I don't need SL to be a second one. My projects are hobbies, only certain ones make it to my store.

[Ina Fairport]

In my early SL years 2006-2009 I was heavily addicted and more than 25 hours online weekly.
Nowadays not more than 1 hour weekly and often less.

[Anna Nova]

What exactly is the point?  Building things is now the preserve of those with expensive off-world tools (that don't run on Linux), sex is better in RL, so what else is there?  I might well be saying 'bye bye' soonish.

[JacksonBollock]

I'm someone who is back and forth, it's not really a big part of my life so often not back for months or years at a time.

Mostly something will come up on my news feed about SL and I'll pop back to the forums and into SL to see what all the fuss is about.

Then I'll stick around for about 6 months before slipping away again.

When I'm here, I'm in SL a couple of days a week, for an hour at a time. The forums more frequently on my phone while on the commute.

I really don't understand the fixation on improving the 'artefacts' of SL (the avatars, or the clothes or PBR yada yada) it was always the fun of socializing with lots and lots of different weirdos just like me.

Now it's more like visiting my mum's knitting circle - complain about the young'uns while comparing blue rinses.

Edited November 25 by JacksonBollock

[Sid Nagy]

Over the last months my inworld time went from several hours a day to several minutes a day.
Last week I was redecorating my place, so it was a bit more. But now I'm finished with that so it will be a few minutes a day again (mainly checking if customer service is needed).
I have the feeling that I will be done with SL Soon™ if I don't find new things of interest to do.

Edited November 25 by Sid Nagy

[Love Zhaoying]

I am in-world lately about 1-2 hours every couple of weeknights, plus about 2 hours every weekend day. 

This is a lot more than usual, because I am working on a project.

Compared to that, I am in the Forums maybe about 3 hours total every day.

[Midnoot]

20 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

 I am in the Forums maybe about 3 hours total every day.

 

[Anastasia Loxingly]

6 hours ago, animats said:

I helped with an effort to liven up Port Babbage, but few people ever showed up

Steampunk community in SL has shrunk so much it practically is 20 people or so now. It doesn't help that Babbage caught some collateral damage back when the big rumour thing happened earlier this year.

[Garnet Psaltery]

At the moment I'm hardly there at all, as my pc is in for servicing and I'm on an emergency laptop, which doesn't handle SL too well.  Up to about 4 years ago I was in SL for some 8 hours a day, I would guess, and often stayed up very late to join in with events in the SL timezone. I used to take part in RP, and for a while ran a couple of regions, and was involved with Relay for Life teams. When I gave up the regions I began to feel less engagement with SL. Then I'd be in perhaps 30-60 minutes a day to do things like catch up with friends, deal with messages, change my parcels for the season, and buy a few things, unless I wanted to take part in a particular communal activity such as a Tiny Explorers outing, or Relay, or a Raglan dance. When I get back on my pc I don't expect to be in any more than I was, and it's getting harder to feel motivated. Next year's Relay should get me more active but without RP I can't see anything that would draw me in for long hours again.

Edited November 25 by Garnet Psaltery
Added text.

[Love Zhaoying]

45 minutes ago, Anastasia Loxingly said:

Steampunk community in SL has shrunk so much it practically is 20 people or so now. It doesn't help that Babbage caught some collateral damage back when the big rumour thing happened earlier this year.

I get the idea you don't mean they were shrunk with a Steampunk "Shrink Ray", either..

[Carolyn Zapedzki]

Every day, for most of the day, not active for all that time though, I work from home 6 days a week, so for 6 hours of that time per day I am not active and not active when doing other RL stuff, I just can't be bothered logging out all the time and the PC will still be on anyway.

I do have 1 or 2 insomniac nights a week though and in SL for most of the night and rather active. SL is ideal for insomniac nights and that was how I found SL in the first place.