Now I hide it from pretty much everyone except my boyfriend and even he doesnt know how much time I spend on it when he is out of town

I do I get a lot of negative reactions but people dont understand so I just ignore them

My close friends know. They just consider it a game I play with other people. lol

my mom thinks I'm on SL 24/7 and no matter how much I say I'm only on for like an hour or so in the evening i'm still on constantly

it just sucks because I pretty much hide from my daughter that I am back on SL. It really affected our relationship before which I take responsibility for but it different this time. I am on like maybe 4 hrs

a week at this point and sometimes not even that

only my family. my friends knew but not anymore cause i got tired of the negativity too. mind you, they nevr played anything beyond candy crash or solitaire, they just don't know. And they don't belive me i

actually work in sl.

My family knows but they think its just a game. They don't mind, but they don't think it's interesting like I do so I don't talk about it.

And no friends. They think its weird. Which is dumb because they play WoW and other games religiously, so I don't see how that's different

The only person that really knows about SL is my husband (and a few of his friends we play other games with). I don't tell my family about it because I am sure they would look at me like I had 2 heads.

I used to & then people started with all the negativity - how waste of time it was and how you were a loser to play it. 3 years later, I have a wife, great side income and I live in the USA. So eff you haters

For once I would love to meet someone irl who played, and would just go, hey, I get it.

I work here, and make money, RL money, what is so wrong with that?

exactly!