I feel alone in the internet.
Due to a personal event, I had to delete all of my social media. That was over a year ago. I focused on myself and I'm doing pretty well, but I have no friends IRL, I just talk to my parents, and not having any friends online is really making me feel truly alone.
How do I make friends online again? How do you pick the good ones from the bad ones?
same man. i have insta and other shit but i don't use them
I am your friend user.
Always have been.
What are your interests?
Porn, morrowind and tendies if i had to guess.
Mapping and modding minecraft.
Never liked games without guns, so mod that stuff in minecraft.
>Porn
Isn`t it most generic thing ever to enjoy?
I understand
>Due to a personal event, I had to delete all of my social media. That was over a year ago.
You need to focus on displaying yourself with positivity. Those online social media friends will check you out to see how you've become, don't give them an edge to belittle you
>I focused on myself and I'm doing pretty well,
Keep going forward, you had a rough past but putting the effort in to change is commendable, get the job you want, be financially stable and prove everyone wrong
>but I have no friends IRL, I just talk to my parents,
That's okay, you need an outlet so talking with parents who understand your situation is nothing to be ashamed about. Making friends irl is difficult if you have to start from the bottom, it is possible if you engage and not allow your circumstance to overwhelm you
>not having any friends online is really making me feel truly alone.
How do I make friends online again? How do you pick the good ones from the bad ones?
Try discord to make online friends, if you find an interesting person you can offer to talk, like on Any Forums threads. Or go to /soc/ and immerse yourself in the community and go from there
>discord
>guns
Are you a /k/fag?
My advice is to work on meeting people in real life and use your separation from social media to its highest advantage. Right now you have an opportunity to never go back, it's already been a year.
Personally, I have not had social media for 2 years. Everything deleted. I only use Youtube and Any Forums to learn about news or view interesting content. I have discovered a few unique things that will make your life better like it has made mine.
1. Women are magnetized towards a man without social media. My GF loves it. Her reasons are rather selfish but not being apart of this MK ULTRA social engineering program is unheard of. It makes you stand out to females and is a good ice breaker. "Hey user, it was nice to meet you. I was hoping I could get your snapchat or maybe your insta? What is it?"
"I don't have any of those. Here is my number, you can text me or call me if you'd like."
"What do you mean? You don't have anything??? Why? Wow, I've never met a guy that isn't on social media."
She will then be forced to communicate by your standards and your methods. She will tell her friends, they will react the same way. She will be closed off from seeing you unless its in person and will cherish your communication more. There are literally no downfalls to this and if you act as a living example, she will follow you in the venture and start deleting her social media. Wow user, you're finally a leader.
2. Not having social media will make you lonely, and that's a good thing. Eventually your boredom will outweigh your social anxiety. You will strengthen your ability to communicate with others in real life. After you overcome whatever is scaring you from meeting people in the real world, you will feel like you have a super power of sorts. This will boost your confidence and that alone has a cyclical effect that again, has no downfall.
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Social media is worthless and meaningless. The only thing you’re missing is (real friends), along with the routine that you can break out of unless you’re autistic.
You do not want online friends, you want irl friends
Well, i like deer girls.
Partly wrong. Most girls would be more curious and suspicious of no social media, it really depends on the girl. Some will not give a fuck and date you while you have no accounts and others would avoid you. It certainly will not make you a leader and guide a deactivation of her accounts
Cute butt. Artist?
I think that's a part why I don't have IRL friends. I told my uni classmates I'm into furry but they think I'm a freak and outside a few people nobody from the "main" group talk to me. Their loss I guess but it makes me feel isolated IRL.
I don't have any furry friends either because I've heard the community is weird, so I feel stuck between a rock... and other rock.
Mine are drawing, making music, watching movies and series from time to time. Oh, working out too.
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3. You will avoid the poison that is "algorithm led" content. There are a lot of stupid, horny, brain dead fucktards that are the architects of the algorithm sites like facebook, instagram or twitter drive straight to your face. This content is a reflection of their desires, insecurities and manipulated carnal thoughts (think normie content) and heavily alters a persons perspective of their identity as well as their outside world in a evil, negative way.
When you rob yourself of that content, you save yourself from those effects. Do you see a trend here user? No downfalls.
4. You become a smarter person that is less susceptible to deception. All major social media sites are owned by very large and powerful interest groups who understand their real value doesn't stem from connecting people to other people, but connecting minds to ideas. In other words, they derive their real value from being able to expose you to things. They use family, friends, music, humor and entertainment as bait. Then once you are in their web, they corrupt you subliminally and purposefully. This is a very complex process that plays on the most intimate corners of your mind. Staying away from it allows you to ideologically defend yourself from the same tactics elsewhere. When you indulge in it, it makes it a lot easier for those who are involved in this process to slip by undetected. (Think companies. elite class, evil doers).
5. The final significant benefit I have found is that you get more time to live and observe. I don't have the numbers, but I know hours upon hours of people's lives are spent on these apps. When you are living the fruitful, social, and naturally functional life you are meant to; this time you gain is incredibly valuable. From stabilizing your sleep schedule to being able to look out into the real world with an empty mind. To having time to discover who you are within yourself or spend more time with a person you love.
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These moments you will gain in this time will result in memories. Looking into your phone endlessly scrolling to the next dopamine hit will not. I don't know your life philosophy user, but since you talk to your parents often I challenge you to ask them one question:
"What are some of your greatest memories?"
Their answer is akin to what you will gain by leaving this sick, manipulative, evil technology behind. Look into their face when they answer, see the joy in their eyes, their facial muscles, their smile. Those thoughts are worth more than any post, digital interaction, or virtual experience will offer you.
Thank you for coming to my TedTalk
>I told my uni classmates I'm into furry but they think I'm a freak
You are a freak, but it is good that you not build your whole identity around liking cartoon animals sexually.
Have you tried monstergirls or hmoaf?
It is curse of all creative people to be freaks, look at Hitler for example.
Show me what you draw.
I wouldn't disagree with you that what you are saying could happen. It does depend on the girls, but consider that the girls who would be more curious and suspicious are that way because they are programmed to certain patterns.
If you break those patterns you immediately stand out from the crowd. If you have something to offer them in return like a good personality for example, they will gravitate towards that instead. It will force them to get what they would have gotten from your social media directly from you instead. As for not fucking you or dating you simply because you don't have social media accounts, those are the type of people you want to save yourself from. They are already not worth your time based off of those standards alone.
Also, I only say this to OP because of my experiences. My GF was exactly what you described, curious and suspicious. She even thought at one point that I had secret accounts. Her sister once said to her in private that "There is no way he doesn't have any social media. He is lying to you." These types of situations only serve to give you ethos when you are being a living example. She ended up secretly going through my phone one random night, and only found the truth.
She currently only has facebook. She has since deleted instagram, snapchat, twitter and reddit all on her own accord. She attributes me as the reason why she deleted them. Not because I asked her too, because I never have. She saw my actions and realized that I was better off without it. Sounds like a leader to me user.
TL:DR
Social media sucks, don't ever go back.
How did you even know I draw? Anyways, here's what I did today. I still know I have to improve, but at least I'm taking classes now. I'm into ponies and I don't care about /hmofa/, I have to get a fursonas, but I don't have one yet.
Really? Bunch of fucking speeches about how free your mind is by not being subjected to the controls of social media? You are literally on the worst social media site that exists. It is nothing but back and forth propaganda, circling the wagons to make sure everyone is in the right hive mind, and empty straw man arguments about topical news and social issues. It is all social programming.This thread is such fucking hypocritical nonsense.
>If you break those patterns you immediately stand out from the crowd.
True, you'll stand out because of the interest in your obscurity. I agree with you on that
>If you have something to offer them in return like a good personality for example, they will gravitate towards that instead. It will force them to get what they would have gotten from your social media directly from you instead.
In a way but think majority here, I know there's girls out there that don't care about it but those with suspicion will overwhelm their actions in getting personally closer. As you said here
>She even thought at one point that I had secret accounts.
>She ended up secretly going through my phone one random night, and only found the truth.
Honestly I agree with your perception on social media as a whole, but physically socializing with women have loss results. My ex for example was constantly asking me to put up a photo with her on social media and I refused which lead to her wondering where this relationship was going. As I said before most girls are addicted to social media and if you don't have it the general assumption is you're a creep or have something to hide. Yes there is normal girls out there who can understand the circumstance, getting close enough and remain interesting to exchange phone numbers? You tell me
so, when were u diagnosed with autism?
You sound like a weaboo making a breakthrough.
>How did you even know I draw?
You just told everyone itt here last line of the post.
>I have to get a fursonas, but I don't have one yet.
You dont have to dress-up as pastel-colored horse to watch/draw furry porn and fap, just saying.
I had that phase in 2004, made bunch of Sonic characters, damn that was embarrassing, i glad that i burned it all.
You should use PC for drawing, it has better tools and would not tear if you use eraser too much to draw that perfect line.