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KharBevNor:
Patrick:
Bawx, if it makes you feel any better, while I have a social life outside in the real world, most of the time I would much, much rather just talk with people on the internet for my social interaction fix. Unfortunately, I've definitely had to realize that going your entire life without actually interacting with people in person at all is a pretty rough way to live life. My problem has been in finding the balance between maintaining a presence online and not neglecting my overwhelming need for human interaction.
I think one of the reasons I spend so much time on the internets is because it is really difficult to feel like somebody is judging you without knowing you when literally all they ever see of you is the things going through your mind. Because that's what I usually wind up writing down. It's a special kind of security that I don't typically have.
Eris:
Petanque!
tania:
--- Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 03 Jan 2011, 13:21 ---And I do not at all mean to say that the majority of people on this board are fucked up like 'social misfits' or something, it's just that something has to attract us all to the internet as a viable alternative for socializing as opposed to doing it all in the real world exclusively.
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this is something i was thinking about recently as well - obviously not everyone who pursues a social life on the internet is completely dysfuctional, but i think it's fair to say that most (if not all) people who do so do it because they feel like they're missing something in their "real" social life. when you get enough people together who are missing the same thing from their lives, it's inevitably going to lead to a really intimate and tightly knit community like the one we have here, not to mention all the relationships that have sprung up from it as well. it seems weird at first that this board functions as a matchmaker for so many people here but when you really think about it, well, yeah, of course it would.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: tania on 03 Jan 2011, 14:38 ---because they feel like they're missing something in their "real" social life.
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Alternatively, there is now a way of adding something which there wasn't before the Internet; at least, I like to think so, as my meat-life social life is as active as ever. Just because something can be disfunctional, it doesn't mean that it always is.
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