Is there anyone else feeling really lonely? I can't connect with people. I can't connect with people in real life, and I can't connect with people on the Internet anymore either. It doesn't click. The Internet feels really aggressive and sarcastic now. I have no friends at all. I don't have a single person I can turn to and talk to honestly and openly, or joke around with. Not having anyone to talk to is really wearing me down.
Sometimes I'll talk to people and think they're my friend, but find out they don't really care about me at all. I don't mean that in a bad or spiteful way, just that I was some random person drifting around in the background for them. I guess it's because I interact with so few people on a personal level that all of those interactions become magnified.
I didn't know where to post this. I thought of a few other places, but I was afraid I'd just get the sort of sarcastic and aggressive response that I want to avoid.
pretty much yeah. it's been worse for me in the past than it is now because I have a few people I can talk to now.
Keep searching bud, there's at least one person out there that will truly click with you and when you find them it'll help you out a lot I think.
Me to a T.
I'm sure I know what friendship is. I'm sure I used to have internet friends, though we drifted apart.
I'm almost convinced it's just a side effect of the modern world and how it encourages people to behave.
I can relate a great deal. I don't go outside, so no IRL friends, and the way internet culture is now wears me down very quickly. I'm so tired of the bottomless layers of 'irony' and sarcasm and how it can excuse any degree of lacking quality. I can't even tell what's being discussed or what people think anymore. It's all masked by so many levels of nonsense that they could be saying anything. That's bad enough on its own, but that nonsense is always so vitriolic and aggressive that having a conversation feels more like a fight to the death than anything else. No one can ever be wrong, no one can ever be anything less than 100% in favor of an idea, no one can ever back down, no one can ever compromise, no one can ever be moderate.
So now I have almost no internet friends. The few I do have, I drive away by being too depressing. I have nothing to talk about except bad things, and eventually that wears down even the most patient, understanding friends.
I'm not sure what to do. The only groups I've ever truly enjoyed have been based on or derived primarily from anonymous discussion. But imageboard culture has become the exemplar of that aggressive sarcasm OP mentioned and text boards are so slow and empty. I like that 4-ch goes slowly and hasn't changed much, but it'd be nice to have a closer group of friends to to talk to more regularly than once every few days.