You're right! So, good, safe advice for virtual townspeople:
Never drive or operate heavy machinery under the influence of intoxicants.
DO consume intoxicants in the safety of your home, with friends and while tuned in to, say, a baseball game or other sporting event.
Never go online to contact an old girlfriend in the presence of your wife or present girlfriend.
DO tell jokes about old girlfriends when intoxicated, watching a sporting event and NOT in the presence of wife or present girlfriend.
After drinking intoxicating beverages at a social gathering of friends, be sure to keep your address in large, printed type to hand to the guy dropping you off (who presumably will deposit you at your door) so you don't accidentally try and enter your neighbor's house at 3 AM (you know, the guy who's 6'4"/235 lbs., owns guns and has a Doberman named "Slasher")!