What the hell is happening?

What the hell is happening in SL this week? I swear to God that this week I have known of more friends of mine taking on alts in order to "escape". Escape from who?

I wanted into a club this week, just hanging around and within a few minute I recieve this random "hi" from a stranger. Me being the semi-nice person I am....I replied with a "hello". Nothing more was said and as I was scanning the room......I noticed the tag above this strangers head read "Nothing Special". Ok, I have a friend who has the same tag.....so I did the profile check. The strangers profile is identical to my friends. So I proceeded to Im him back and question him about it, and low and behold it is my friend....but using an Alt. I had to ask him the question "Why the Alt?" His response was "I use this to escape from people"........

Escape from people? Who? What the fuck happened in the past that warrant you needing a alt to "hide" from some nutty ass person? Also, if your going to escape and hide....maybe, it would be good to NOT have the exact same profile information? Ding-Ding here!!

I also friended another person in SL this week. His name is "jim" and he seems like a nice guy. He is friends with a girl, that is dating one of my other male friend. My male friend IM's each day with a "hello, how's it going"....which is always nice, and I make small talk with him. Today something odd happened. "Jim" was talking to me about his female friend and how he is worried that her partner (my male friend) is true to her, cause he has two other females on this profile. Specifically two girls that I work with. I have always wondered about my male friend and his intentions pertaining to talking to me, cause his profile reads "I love Drama". Well....I don't. So....now I am thinking that maybe my male friend is actually "Jim" and is now just trying to start some shit. I don't play games. I am still going to see how this one plays out. The conversation was off and it made a light bulb pop up in my head.