I was asked last week why my parcels are set to private. Since this was the first time someone inquired, and they asked politely, I was happy to respond. While I can't go into too much detail due to law enforcement involvement, I can say that some Second Life (SL) drivers have become pretty entitled—let’s just say, not in a good way. This is the reason that so many places in the real world don't want tourists. The same is true in Second Life.

Earlier today, my neighbor received a message from someone complaining about the trees she had placed along Route 8. We were both surprised since we had made sure they were set to non-physical (phantom) to avoid any issues with SL drivers. The driver had a hair-trigger temper and as a result was added to the parcel ban list. The speed of the anger shocked my neighbor and this entitled person would be upset so quickly over such a small thing. As my neighbor was in the middle of something important, and we had already handled the tree issue beforehand and she didn't want to drop everything just to deal with the woman's issue, she was just banned and muted. I mean, she was banned, on a parcel that had nothing in it that would interest the woman, did not belong to the woman, and the owner just wanted privacy and to be let alone to work without interruption. Think about it.