I'm shy

Shrugs

they like to reserve their awesomeness for an exclusive few ... ?

2moti that makes no sense.

Were it the case, they would talk to Gen.

boyo: i never promised that i'd make sense !!

Not like you keep your promises, anyway.

blasphemy !!

mostly it's about being with a group of people, but still not conversing with the group but instead wanting to speak privately to someone.

I dislike that. If I'm nearby, just talk to me. And if you're privately talking because you want me to go elsewhere and do something,

Yeah, I mostly do that. But usually one person drags me into a group if strangers.

boyo: do you even play SL ??

Limits my conversational dexterity.

they ask for that. I just can't understand when I'm talking with my friends and they stand silently nearby, IMing privately with me.

Also makes me wonder if they're basically IMing everyone, seeing which one takes the bait.

2moti don't go all weird Canadian on me. Yea I'm in SL

if I am in a crowd I find a lot of chatting in local annoying. I im to not but others than anything else

What really pisses me off if I am at a romantic dance place some someone is chatting in local.

why is that bad? it seems a social situation.

well I view it like being at a nice place and having your date and close and tight. You and she are talking softly looking in each others

eyes totally focused on each other. And someone talks real loud just sort of is a buzz kill. Now is I am at one of the reg clubs.

That is totally different everyone having fun and yelling making funny noises. I am talking about SL clubs. in that case local is cool.

they want to say things that they dont want other people to see

I'm not against IM, I just wonder about people who come into an obvious social situation, and then ignore the socializing.

I always talk in open chat.. it maximizes the number of people I can pester at once!