Nearly spilling the coffee joining in a crescendo of sound, cheering with the rest of the crowd, it made me realise the exhilaration you feel from watching your brood win, and the energy that transpires from being a part of the crowd with a common purpose is also experienced in Second Life (SL) when you join a group or team.
Have you ever noticed in SL, people join groups for various reasons; it could be, to share interests, common goals, aspirations, to feel support for a cause, creative interests, professional communities, recognition, leadership, or even perhaps a connection to something larger.
Belonging in a group in SL, gives people many types of statuses and responsibilities, which could be a way of exploring what they can’t have in RL, or something they would like to try out in the safety of their own home.
This could be as a Leader, Master, Dom, Submissive, King, Queen, Lord, Duchess, and of course as a follower, to explore and identify with for a variety of interests. Groups within SL come in many shapes and sizes, and people join one of these groups, or many, to become a friend to someone who’s in that group, or to feel like you are one of them, together, linked for a similar purpose, to be a part of that team.
Groups in RL are no different from SL; we join them to have inclusion, to establish an identity with others. Control is the need to exercise leadership, and prove one's abilities, and affection is the need to develop relationships with people to feel loved or belonging.
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