How is your social life right now?

[justin_ator]

Re: How is your social life right now?

Do we have a skype usernames thread? I'd like it if more people messaged me on skype for whatever nonsense. I don't really care what it is about because I'm generally free to talk.

I just searched through 20 pages of threads searching for keywords "skype thread" and got nothing of the sort. I figure we could make one.

-o24

Threw something together in Google Docs with a form, I'll make a thread~
edit: made

[Destroy2777]

Re: How is your social life right now?

From what I recall, it feels like I only often connect with people if I do something with them; it feels like this works to facilitate communication, and in this strange way, I get to understand others through this.

The parallel of just speaking to a person often doesn't do much for me, as I don't know what to talk about to strike up a conversation, partially because I don't know the other person's interests.

[TheSaxRunner05]

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I had a modest group of friends in high school, but when I went to college, it felt like everyone held me at arms length. As someone slow to socialize and not a drinker, I didn't really fit the crowd at what was primarily a state funded party school. Most people were too wrapped up indulging their own whims to give a shit about each other. There were hundreds of acquaintances but only one or two friends in the whole lot. Now that I'm graduated and married, I still have a few old high school friends in the area, but we all work 40+ hour weeks and have little time to meet.

[awein999]

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For me it's the other way around. I say hello to someone I recognize from another class or whatever and that person just gives me a weird look, stays quiet, or goes "hey" and turns around.

"Going outside" is overrated. Some users in this thread mentioned that they do regret the decision of "going out" several times, and it's generally not a good decision if it is with people that do not have much in common with interests. I can't talk about rhythm games to people around me because it won't make sense. I'd rather interact with people that have an idea of what I'm saying, not just those dry boring topics like "hey how are classes going" or "cold outside, isn't it?" etc.

Either way I personally prefer non-verbal communication. If there is an interesting discussion going on but someone keeps mispronouncing words or saying other things etc. I don't like that. In front of a screen and with a keyboard there's more time to reasonably think things out rather than be somewhere in the flesh and around people that are willing to interrupt you and ignore just to "win". It also solves the problem of people who have strong foreign accents and talk too fast; they can normally type words and be understandable.

Yeah it's similar here. From my personal experience with the majority of people in my irl area, I have to make everything I do/say extra clear as to what I mean/why or else there will be misconceptions and drama in the long run. I'm more sensitive and perceptive than most people so I hate it. I also care about strangers around me until they give me a reason to stop while not everyone feels that same way. My goal is to make connections in the form of people that I don't have to walk on eggshells for. I have a couple close friends but more would be nice.

I don't really focus on "going out" but rather making personal fulfilling connections with dapper people. That's priceless. I don't use the word "friend" lightly

[smartdude1212]

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I'm dapper. Let's do this.

[Arntonach]

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Non existent, since everyone I met in the navy's still in and everyone I met in high school is off in college in Phoenix of Flagstaff. :<

[xNiX]

Re: How is your social life right now?

I have my moments I'd prefer to be alone, but most of the time I do go out with someone. Before I got rid of my computer, I had a really hard time being social with people unless I was drinking.
Ever since I made a conscious effort to do that, my life has been much better. People may not always talk about what you want to hear, but you can usually find something interesting if you keep your doors open.

[xNiX]

Re: How is your social life right now?

Of course I do, I'm just not sure how to go about

You can always try to start out small. Try hanging out with people who are friends with your friends. You can always expand on that.

[benguino]

Re: How is your social life right now?

Nearly all my friends are friends of friends, it's the easiest way to make friends imho

[iCeCuBEz v2]

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I'm sure you can be fucked up in the head and be introverted. You can also be both.

i am fucked up in the head and an introvert

[Lambdadelta]

Re: How is your social life right now?

Becoming quite anti social since I turned 17 (turning 20 in march) I've been living on my own and the only real interaction I've had over the years is with my sister,mother and 1-2 close friends.

Other then that I never go outside and I don't particularly want to make any new friends irl but w/e

My online life is pretty much the only place I associate with people anymore.
I rarely leave my house, only for maybe 2-3 days for groceries,bills/rent and if I end up leaving my place I'm usually at my sister's or my mother's house to visit and go straight home afterwards.

[Izzy]

Re: How is your social life right now?

I'm curious how some people make a living without leaving the house.

[Pseudo Enigma]

Re: How is your social life right now?

I'm curious how some people make a living without leaving the house.

Things like programming I suppose? I'm curious too. Uh, for s-science...

[justin_ator]

Re: How is your social life right now?

There is a number of things you can do from home. I have a friend who worked as a Customer Service rep for Sprint and she took calls from home through her computer using company software, allowing her to never have to leave the house for work. Nice, since she could literally work from bed some days if she had to lol.

edit: Something like that requires the ability to comfortably deal with people though... phone interaction.
You can also find other things that may not need as much people interaction, but the way I see it is that the less people you're interacting with the less likely it is your job is a legitimate job... if you're making money it has to be coming from somewhere (not to say you can't make money without talking to people or on your own, but generally speaking most people don't)

making and selling things online is an at-home business but I don't think it's "a living" as most people would consider that to be.

[Izzy]

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Surprisingly I talk to about 2-3 people on a daily basis over my 8 hours at work, not including lunch, and it is only for like 15-30 minutes at most.

Everyone in the office communicates over an instant messaging system in gmail. Sometimes I just work from home in which case I don't need to talk to anybody unless you count instant messaging people. I would just work from home always, but the office is about 5 minutes away and I kind of enjoy the limited social interaction involved.

I'm very thankful I never have to talk to customers. There are like 3 whole layers between me and the customer so I really don't even know who the customers are.