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I'm having mixed feelings about the internet these days.
RedLion:
Interesting; don't recall doing that.
Slick:
(he is not talking about you)
20 jazz funk greats:
--- Quote from: Spluff on 22 Mar 2009, 22:59 ---The internet is my very own personal procrastination machine.
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this.
however i am not really enjoying everything this fine procrastination machine has to offer lately. a lot of things that i used to think were pretty neat have just become boring (facebook is a prime example of this. i used to love catching up with friends via wall posts and messages, looking at photos, reading status updates, everything. i could do that for hours. now i spend maybe 5 minutes at most on facebook at any given time because it's not as good for making plans with people as i used to think, i don't actually care about what some random acquaintance from high school is doing and the new layout is awful)
then again, i have found some new stuff i enjoy and gotten back into a thing that i had mixed feelings about, so hey.
also i have a lot less work to do now, and there is no reason for me to put off doing said work, since it is not stressful and overwhelming and horrible so i kind of feel like there is no reason for me to be internetting as much as i currently do because i have no reason to be escapist.
--- Quote from: tania on 21 Mar 2009, 08:07 ---i spend a lot of time on this forum but i've always kept this part of my life secret on account friends tend to react very badly when i tell them i have met people from the internet and spend time on an internet message board. whenever the subject comes up of how i met them, i always find myself lying and saying something like "oh, at a show" or "through another friend" - not because i'm deliberately trying to be hurtful, or because i'm even embarrassed of it, but because i know the truth is just going to get some incredible negative reactions and i really have no desire to deal with them.
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this too.
RedLion:
--- Quote from: Slick on 23 Mar 2009, 09:33 ---(he is not talking about you)
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Nonsense; everything is about me!
jmrz:
I can understand a lot of Kieffer's post really. I mean, I've been a member on these boards for something like three years now, maybe more? I cannot remember, but it has been a long time. Despite that, there is only one person I have met on these boards that I have a really good friendship with. For everyone else, you are all wonderful people but I still feel awkward and left out because you all seem to know each other better than I do and it is kind of hard for me to change that because most of you live two hours away, or more.
Making real life friends is hard. Last year when I changed what I was studying, I changed in the middle of the year, when everyone had already made friends and formed their groups and it was just me and my boy and that was it. We had a really hard time trying to make friends because it seemed like everyone was settled in already. I mean, university is great in so many ways - you can show up wearing your pj's and slippers and no one would actually care, but making friends there can be scary and daunting.
I spend most of my internet time lurking - in IRC, on forums. I read nearly every thread on my regular boards, but hardly ever post. There are people here who have been here less than half the time than I have with post counts a hell of a lot higher than mine. I mean, the people who have been around here for the same time (or longer), than I have, all know me I guess, but I still feel left out and lonely.
I guess most of my internetting is one sided? I mean, there is like one person I IM regularly, the second person I now live with, so we actually talk in person now. I need to do something about this, I guess, I just am not sure how.
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