I have a reason to hide in the game. If I want to be left alone with my partner and just enjoy some public place, like the beach for instance, without being bombarded with PMs. Yes, I do understand that you can just ignore those PMs and carry on whatever you are doing, but sometimes it's just easier to hide away and just enjoy each other's company without those annoying flashing green tags popping every so often. And I know quite a few people doing the same. I also have a fem avi that my friends know of. When a pole dance option for men or mmm threesomes to make the sync become available, then that virgin will be sacrificed immediately and without any sympathy, but so far she lives. And it comes handy to have an alt when you want to mess around with the furniture and see how it will look like without destroying your main char's apartment. As far as this topic is concerned I myself have experienced the deception, malicious gossips and rumors being spread. Not at all pleasant I might say, so I do understand. Made me take a break from the game even, cuz I got sick and tired of all the drama around and people trying to drag me into it. In the community I socialize the most, gossiping and rumor spreading is far too common but there's naught you can do apart from distancing yourself from that sort of people. There are people that like using multiple avis and accounts to spy on people and share RL info and photos of the players who wish to be anonymous. One avi, three or ten it won't matter. Twats like that will go on doing whatever they feel like thriving on the havoc and drama they create. But as it was said before, people always give away hints by the way they "speak" or behave, so you can always make an educated guess who exactly you are talking to if you pay attention. But still I would prefer to have three avis then one without any tags pointing to my account or my main char.