I bet you have.

I'm not a second life player myself, but from what I've heard, a whole lot of it is based around sexuality that would be impossible, or at least not very acceptable (outside of the SF bay area, at least) in real life. I mean, if your thing is dragons or something, well hey, they can make that happen.

With a reputation like that, most people aren't going to be as 'out' about being a second life user as about enjoying 'modern warfare' or whatever, I mean, depending on local culture.

This sort of stealth is common in gender and sexual minorities. It can happen to people who are transgender. Lots of trans women have tales of being in a group of cis people and to conversation turning to how none of them have ever met a trans person. Or lots of (usually homophobic) straight people who think they've never met a gay person.

If there's a stigma or negativity attached to a thing, then don't use "I've never met anyone in $GROUP" as reliable data.

I'm an active user of Second Life. I run a business in-world, which pulls in thousands of dollars a year.

I am not one, but I know someone that was attached to a rather large group of players that even had parties happening in SL an the real life, connected via webcam. They definitely used it to the max.

EDIT: Just normal parties with people sitting around and chatting :).

Reading lsc's comment about the type of things SecondLife is/can be used for and then your comment about webcam parties makes for a combo which is hard to talk about in public.

Nice catch. No, they were on a totally different edge of SecondLive. I edited the comment.

I've messed around in there, and I have a friend who built a rather elaborate Tron thing in there.

Another active SL player. I just keep connecting because I made a group of friends. We still meet sometimes or keep contact outside SL.

I occasionally use SL to listen to a jam session at a Jazz club that I don't have much time to visit IRL: secondlife://Suisse/139/194/22