No.220422
Okay, Almost all of us here barely have any friends IRL, me included (I am sure at least half of us here are fine with that), But what about online Socialization? even the biggest Hikikomoris socialize online, the issue is that I f*g can't relate to people online, even in circles that are meant for "losers" and "outcasts", even if i like many people there and we can somewhat get along, I still feel that I do not belong there and that we live in entirely different worlds, And I do not play online games, nor post in any other imageboard aside of this, I always feel home here, unlike anywhere else online, so it's comfy here, but somewhere like 4trannies? hell no, it really hits when my former online friends are advancing in life and starting romantic relationships and I am left in the same exact place (not negatively) it's when I realize that I don't belong around them and I am only going to relate to them less and less with the time, and I hate it when they try to get me to change my way and try to talk to me about "getting a G.F" and escaping wiz/apperantice-hood so i decide to just abandon them and live inside of my own mind bubble comfortably
No.220423
same
No.220431
hmmm, i am the odd man out…
i'm on a board with 290 million members…
i really have a fair group of followers and get bombarded with questions and opinions all the time …
IRL i am a loner; i simply can't stand the majority of people i meet…
its weird to say the least, the people i meet online are for the most part congenial and tolerable (except for "Twinkies)… its very odd; it took me many years to find a board where i felt at home…
No.220466
>>220422same
i hate it when a normie who has no idea what it's like to be like this comes to this board and tells people to just improvemaxx bro
it really does feel like other people, even online cryptids, have some innate ability to socialize and start friendships, that we lack
No.220510
>>220422>I f*g can't relate to people online, even in circles that are meant for "losers" and "outcasts", even if i like many people there and we can somewhat get along,yeah I did this in college, only to find they were just as shallow as normal people trying to one-up each other. Even trying to socialize with the "nicer" ones, they end up avoiding you because of in-group gossip. The only friends I could make were with the biggest bullies in the group, who eventually bullied me out of it all together. Pretty much all of my family members met their spouse and friends in college, while I show up to thanksgiving alone and everyone walks on eggs shells like a retarded person is in their presence.
As for online friends that's a whole other bag. While I had to heavily censor myself in college, I enjoyed the anonymity of online of being myself and trying out new forms of speech. Being anonymous kinda prevents the whole online friends thing, but it does give me a sea to disappear in if I say or do something stupid. All the online communities I might have had friends with have largely died out due to lack of interest, lack of maintenance, or pirated content being struck down. And ever since Trump politics is such a heated topic no one can stay rational unless you are completely on their side of the political spectrum.
No.220552
The exclusion I felt from online communities and playing games with other people always felt so much more painful and disappointing than from normie society. It's such a crushing feeling of loneliness.
No.220555
I have recently been playing World of Warcraft classic and a couple of times random people grouped with me to do a quest. Even if they say nothing then just "thanks" it makes me so uncomfortable that it basically ruins the game
No.220557
>>220510And ever since Trump politics is such a heated topic no one can stay rational unless you are completely on their side of the political spectrum.
The Trump campaign used Israeli botfarms to crack the whip on any opposition. Conversation was never an option.
No.220578
>>220422Image boards are on life support. Try someplace else like the fediverse. That's where I spend almost all my time anymore, visiting sites like this maybe once in a blue moon. I've found people there that I can truly consider friends; I can't say the same thing for image boards even after 15 years on them before jumping off the sinking ship.
No.220579
>>220578First time I hear of that place, can i get a quick rundown on it?
No.220581
>>220579Imagine thousands of tiny twitters, youtubes, soundclouds, etc. that all connect to one another and can post and send images and so on to each other as if it were one website. Each one is independently run and cultivates its own userbase and forum culture, yet can communicate with each other as easily as you can email somebody from gmail to somebody using hotmail. For example, you join one forum that's on the fediverse (such as poa.st) and you can communicate with people from any other fediverse instance. Well, not every – some instance admins will block other instances for having muh wayciss nadsees because that particular instance is run by a literal tranny. Just stay off the no-fun-allowed side of the fediverse and you'll be fine.
No.220582
>>220581I forgot to mention it's called the fediverse because the technical term for these sites communicating with each other is "federating" (as in being part of a federation) with each other.
No.220643
>>220422Any time I try to join a chat these days like discord it seems like it's always young people trying to one up one another with shit memes from modern anime games.
No.220647
>>220643Those are gachaniggers. Brainfried coomer normalfags who post safe horny ai slop. Bunch of 60-80 IQ indians and southeast asians now populate the chans instead of suburban whites.