Okie dokie, seeing as I have thoroughly enjoyed this thread I will attempt to add my input however I will point out that my opinion may be a tad skewed as firstly, I haven’t done the online thing much, secondly I wouldn’t personally attempt to call myself a slave.

I am in a 24/7 real life relationship however and have been for 5 years. I would class myself as Submissive but truthfully I think that it’s all relative. I mean sometimes perhaps I am more of a bottom when my life gets stressful moving towards being more of a slave when things aren’t.
To give my response context: I have always personally believed the slave term to be the BDSM equivalent of ... being married (If that makes sense to anyone). No days off for good behaviour, doesn’t matter if you are ill or busy, you still have to serve (unless master says otherwise).

I personally think that anyone who thinks that being online slave is as hard or as deep as real life slave is ridiculous. It is not the same when your master has an off button! I’m sorry if that offends but that is what I think.

From my experience, living with someone, dealing with life, work, money, kids, or whatever stresses you have, does not a bed of roses make, but when he says jump – you still say how high regardless of the fact that you might have had the worst day.
But at the same time anyone that thinks a slave would do this for everyone not just her master is mad! What do these people think would happen if the slave boss tried to fire them for unlawful reasons... would they just say yes ok?

As for control, I think that you make a decision to obey your master in the offset and regardless of collar, contract, promises, or anything else – every time you obey your master that is you making the choice to honour that commitment. You still have your own mind therefore you could chose not to, or to end the relationship.
Symphony