Virilio part 2

Reading Virilio and working within Second Life are contradictory. Virilio takes an stance that is against the idea of 'being' in a virtual space and yet many 'live' and work in Second Life. This quotation I felt pinpointed the idea of 'being' present when a person is actually only 'telepresent.'
“In both cases[virtual space or cyberspace], we are forced to meet the same challenge, the challenge of a sudden ‘loss of reality’ of space-time-matter. Hence, the accident is no longer a local accident, precisely situated in the space of an action and in the presence of a being, there, here, and now, but a general accident which globally undermines all ‘presence’ and promotes a ‘telepresence’ without consistency and, more particularly, without a true spatial position, since the remote interaction of a being at once absent and acting (teleacting) redefines the very notion of being there” (131).
Every time I'm in SL I have a hard time talking to other avatars. I know there is a person at the other end but because I cannot know their true appearance and identity of the avatar I am always hesitant. I wonder what makes a person decide to be in SL and interact in events that take place there. The anonymity of SL isn't a freeing aspect like some might think, I am always pondering their physical location and circumstances. I thought I was fine with the idea of 'being' virtually present and not physically, but then I encounter someone I don't know in SL and I realize that I'm not. So in many cases I disagree with Virilio but in this case I agree with him.