You May Be Experiencing Lag!

Lag is a fact of Second Life for all of us. There is always a little lag in every sim. So many things affect it, the number of avatars, avatar rendering costs, the number of prims, among other factors. From time to time, the servers just slow down for reasons only known by Lord Linden himself. Jeff Foxworthy made a fortune with his "You may be a redneck" jokes. Let's look at the ways you know you are experiencing lag in Second Life.

1. If your friends ask why are you naked, you may be experiencing lag.


2. If you are in _______ (fill in the name of your favorite welcome area), you may be experiencing lag.


3. If you are always sinking into the terrain when you are in Nova Albion, you're having a normal day there, LOL.


4. If you can't stop walking through buildings, walls, and other people, you may be experiencing lag.


5. If your rezzed with a female shape and you have a male avatar, you may be experiencing lag.


6. If you rezzed without your hair, you may be experiencing lag.


7. If you can't control your movements and keep bumping into people, you may be experiencing lag, or you are a newbie.


8. If a friend leaves and your "CU L8R" text shows up in chat five minutes later, you may be experiencing lag.


9. If you can't sit on the wall at Morris, you may be experiencing lag.


10. If you can only get one shoe to rez, you may be experiencing lag.


11. If you can't teleport, you may be experiencing lag.


12. If you can't adjust your appearance without re-logging, you may be experiencing lag.


13. If your boyfriend leaves you for another girl and you don't find out for a week, you may... no wait, that's not lag. That's just life!