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chat, conversation, meeting people, quest, second life, Socializing, talk
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For a long, long time, I’ve been after something that’s very elusive in Second Life: a place where you can reliably meet interesting people and have conversations. It wouldn’t be a dating venue or a game or roleplay: it would just be a place to talk about meaningful things with thoughtful people. Along with Eris Fallon, I even tried to build such a place, once upon a time! Actually twice, if you count one attempt that wasn’t a place. Three times, if you count The League of Friendly Hangouts! It’s easier said than done.
So I have two questions for any resident who likes to meet people and have interesting conversations. I hope you’ll answer in the comments, or by IMing me! I also intend to seek out some specific people and ask them directly. Here are my questions:
1. What, for you, is a good conversation?
2. Is there anywhere you go where you often find your kind of good conversation?
^^^\ Kate /^^^
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If there was a place that held such a social event, where each meeting would have a particular topic to discuss, I would attend if it happened at a time when I can be in-world. I think making it topic-oriented is more interesting than simply inviting people to talk about whatever they want to. I personally have found it challenging to meet people just for friendly conversation, partly because I’m so shy about approaching people, and partly because it seems to me like the people who approach me are men looking for romance, which I’m not interested in due to being married in RL and believing that means something in any world.
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Oh, Thea, that’s very interesting! It hadn’t occurred to me to think about the difference between somewhere you might go with the expectation of finding other people who like to talk about things and somewhere you might go where a discussion is being led. I wonder if it would be possible to combine the two, to have a place where someone is around to lead or encourage conversation or bring up new topics when needed, but where a conversation can happen at any time and come from anyone.
I’m saying that because most of the discussion events I’ve seen are on topics that don’t interest me a lot and at times when I can’t make it. If there were places where we knew conversation was usually happening, and that a person could join into a conversation instead of having to start one, I wonder if that might sort of take the best of both worlds–flexibility and structure?
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