Go to Jail Because of Second Life

I read once that a woman travelled across state lines to try to kidnap another man that she had a virtual relationship in Second Life. This woman has seriously screwed up in her head to try to kidnap somebody who is represented by pixels.

The person must be real lonely inside and shy not to try establish relationships in the real world. The woman had an inadequate social network that did not provide sufficent friendships and therefore was force to rely on a computer to find friends.

Exterme social isolation can result in behavior like this because the person gets too attached to virtual world and virtual relationship instead of real world relationships. The person in real life that she was “dating” in Second Life might be a person that she would not get along in real life.

Second life is important for people like me that have Autism and can be used to improve social relationships when there is sufficient social interaction with real-life people. Because I attend social events about one or twice a week and also eat lunch sometimes with my coworkers, I have ample time to develop my social skills and I am n. Second Life is a lab to try new social strategies in a virtual world so my real-life social interactions will improve.

However, for this woman, it resulted in her getting a mugshot and trip to the local county jail. And let me tell you, you are not going to learn proper social skills in a county jail.   And yes, you get a wear an orange jumpsuit and eat all of that rotten jail food just because you were obessed with a thing was made of pixels.

Scary Times on the Market

Investing in this market is downright scary. During lunch, several coworkers informed me that they are trying to invest in the market. Right now, I feel that is the best option is hide the money under the couch instead of trying to put a dollar in the stock market.

People are afraid to invest and are timid right now. Nobody want to lose their most precious assets to some market meltdown. In CNBC article that I read, I saw a byline for another article stating that S&P 500 can goes down by another 40%. That is scary.

People’s retirements are being eaten by the stock market debacle and we still have the social security meltdown that we will be facing in a few years? What to do? I have no idea. I am not a politician so I guess that I will have to keep fingers cross