The bemused ramblings of a disgruntled bunny.

Like most of us I view each SL update with a certain amount of trepidation, although I was quite pleased overall with this one (although I reckons the Lag Meter is rigged to tell you that your network or pooter is the cack one while the servers do their work diligently in a shiny gleaming clever sort of way). Until my minimap went weird that is.

Ok so it's not weird, but now it shows anyone in my vicinity who is on my friends list as yellow. Now I'm sure a lot of you were quite pleased at this, no more "Which one of the 300 green blobs in ETD are you?" "I'm the one that's walking around the side" "Which side?" "The right side" Your right or my right?" and you get the picture. But NO! It's not good, it is a catastrophe of epic proportions (ok so I'm not that shallow, but it is irksome enough for blogging).

Imagine the scene, you're happily scampering around the shops when you espy a yellow dot. "OOooo" you think, and camera over to take a look. Only to be greeted by the vision of ZACHLeroy359 Oh. and then you think, well who the fuck is that? Why are they on my friends list? Oh dear god has some deranged blingtard stolen my account and has been slutting it up with her equally retarded boyfriend?




You will think like this for several minutes, rifle your inventory for all traces of the word bling, and satisfied your tiny mind that your av has not been hijacked. Which then leads to the horrific truth that at some point in your life, you added this person YOURSELF!

Terrible no?

Well maybe not, but how about if that person is someone who was bugging the hell out of you with constant IM's, sending you completely random pictures of themselves sitting on a penguin and generally making it so you have to hide your online status from them. Well that's fine, you can do a quick runner can't you? But what if they've already seen you? What if they realise you've been blanking them? Then you have two options.

The Bitch Route: "What are you talking about I swear I cancelled my card with you?

The Nice route: Damn SL is rubbish, quick IM me and I bet I pop up

One makes you look bad the other means you have to be nice to this clingy needy freak.

So yes, minimap bad. Change it back please.

Danke.

Peeping Tom or Stalker?

This actually happened to me the other day, so I figured I might as well bloggity blog blog, besides I like to get other people's opinions with my posts, and justify my insanity at times. There was a time when if you had traded cards with someone it automatically gave them mapping rights and they could easily track your ass down. In my case, I wasn't too particular with card trading. (I'm not really as mean as these other mean girls, some of ya'll are just sissies.) Anywho, I would be friends with anyone & everyone. Call it social butterfly syndrome, whatever.

An SL update not too long ago changed this friend rule by allowing us to choose not to turn on a person's mapping rights in our friends list. Wow! Hmmm at first I thought "Well hell, EVERYONE can map me! Mapping Party! Find me!" After years of common courtesy and trust in the mapping privilege I ended up getting mapped & stalked. Now normally this would not bother me if say I was at tringo (unless you land in front of my card), at a club, or anywhere else with a large group of people on the map. In these two instances I was not in a huge group, nor was I alone. *wink* Hello? Two green dots? Yah, that's me & Hawks - Go Away! So this lead me to a new way of thinking and implementing my own personal new rule. No one under the SL age of 3 months or mentally unstable would be granted mapping rights.

• No one under 3 months was because alts know how to map & some people are just born grievers. Besides if you're that SL young, you can use the fact that you're a noob as an excuse for almost anything.
• Mentally unstable? C'mon everyone has at least one of them if not more on their list.
  

This worked for awhile, until the other day Hawks & I were hiding out at our other house, no one else on the sim, then boom Poophead at 2 o'clock or really just 20m. So I yell "Go Away!" of course, cause I'm like witty, clever bitch like that. heh. "Oops! Mapped the wrong J on my list, sorry," he replied. Immediate loss of mapping rights. Haha! POWAH! No, just kidding. So I rethought yet again about mapping rights and introduced yet another new rule. No one gets mapping rights now, okay some do, but it's like Rosie, Aka, Laylah & Orchid cause when no ones looking they beat me. They really do! HELP! ME!

A friend once told me "nothing good ever comes from mapping a person." This could be true. There's reasons why I do actually like the mapping feature. One being that I am uber nosy and want to know what my girls are up to if I'm not with them. There is a difference between mapping & actually stalking. Stalking is actually hitting that "teleport" button. Mapping is just peeping to see where everyones at. I admit I do that too when I'm bored & if I see a friend with a group, I might im and beg to come. :p That's where trust, respect & common courtesy come into play. It's okay to map, and request a tp. It is not okay to map & stalk without prior permission.

Was the mapping feature a factor for accepting or declining friendship? Am I the only one who implemented mapping rules as SL changed? Do you freely give mapping rights? Is it even something you think of? Your thoughts please...