Having no or little social life isn't as bad as people think

[Trun]

I just think about that I might be lucky my phone isn't constantly ringing and I don't need to speak to dozens of people every day.

[Kamal900]

But i prefer not to stick too much time on the internet, and i should socialize with my friends and loved ones more. Yesterday, me and my friends went to Dubai to an Irish pub, and we had a great time there.(music, dancing, food, drinks and etc).

[Dictator]

I have three friends I think. Maybe four.

[Minesweeper]

It's rather dehumanizing.

[Linebacker]

You think that way because you dont have any.

Come in my shoes,It is impossible for me to nap in the afternoon,my phone rings for many different reasons,I get called to be here,there,then.

Its better to be popular.

[Faklon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_or7ZOjdCo

[arcticwolf]

You've got it right bro. It's better for your mind to be alone, if you can handle it. Most people can't be alone with their mind, and at rest. They need distractions (fun, business you name it), otherwise they can't handle reality.

You know you are mentally strong if you can sit idly for hours and the mind does not bother you, or get depressed or restless, and can switch to activity when needed without mental discomfort.

It's better to be alone than in a company of fools.

[Trun]

You think that way because you dont have any.

It is the other way round. I don't have because I think that way. I can't imagine myself texting constantly in the bus.

[Dasr]

They say Im in a psychosis

[portusaus]

For the first few months it's not so bad, then it begins to wear on your sanity.

[Graham]

My friends only text, we don't phone. Generally laid back response. No one has to text back straight away.

[Trun]

For the first few months it's not so bad, then it begins to wear on your sanity.

I'm like that since I finished high school (3 years). I'm relatively sane so far.

[Svipdag]

I just think about that I might be lucky my phone isn't constantly ringing and I don't need to speak to dozens of people every day.

I have very little social life. I do not make new friends easily and most of my old friends are no longer living. However, my 'phone rings almost constantly, All but one, or, at most two, calls a day are from political fund-raisers. As a result, I usually do NOT answer my telephone. Anyone who wants to communicate with me using Mr. Bell's invention will have to leave a message on my answering machine.
Fortunately, most of the SPAM accumulates on my other (old) screen name . This one remains mostly clear of it. So, my friends can reach me by e-mail.

I hate parties, especially cocktail parties, and , if I get roped into one, I concentrate on getting drunk as fast as possible. In my youth, I used to entertain myself at parties by giving people hot-foots, but that ill becomes the irksome dignity which is now expected of a man of my age.

[Faklon]

Having no or little chocolate isn't as bad as people think,I just think I'm lucky my teeth are fine.

[Trun]

Having no or little chocolate isn't as bad as people think,I just think I'm lucky my teeth are fine.

You aren't lucky. I have just eaten some chocalate and it feels fine.

[Faklon]

You aren't lucky. I have just eaten some chocalate and it feels fine.

Yes but having no or little kebab isn't as bad as people think,I just think I'm lucky from premise.

[Melina]

I think having no social life is unhealthy. You should have at least one friend and family members to interact with. Especially when the holidays come. There is nothing more depressing than being alone while everyone is out.

However I will agree there are a lot of fools on the streets. The stench of vomit is not pleasing either. There are a lot of ugly people out too. I would advice people to go to parties that are "higher class".

[armenianbodyhair]

You think that way because you dont have any.

Come in my shoes,It is impossible for me to nap in the afternoon,my phone rings for many different reasons,I get called to be here,there,then.

Its better to be popular.
Sometimes I just turn my phone off. I love being social but enough is enough sometimes.

[arcticwolf]

I think having no social life is unhealthy. You should have at least one friend and family members to interact with. Especially when the holidays come. There is nothing more depressing than being alone while everyone is out.

However I will agree there are a lot of fools on the streets. The stench of vomit is not pleasing either. There are a lot of ugly people out too. I would advice people to go to parties that are "higher class".

:laugh:

[Faklon]

Sometimes I just turn my phone off. I love being social but enough is enough sometimes.

The whole pattern sociality=responsibility is faulty is you ask me,I'm speaking for more generic situations.

[Amud]

I don't really have a social life, but I do have online friends so it's all good. I usually don't like talking to people in person or being physically near them, except for maybe a few hours at a time once every several weeks.

[Äijä]

They say Im in a psychosis

You seem to be.

[Melina]

:laugh:

I now know why classes are separated and why the rich are called the beautiful people. :(

[Dasr]

You seem to be.
yeah but who cares theres lots of psycho chicks out there

[Äijä]

yeah but who cares theres lots of psycho chicks out there

Will you hurt them?

[Dasr]

Will you hurt them?
what gave you that idea?

[arcticwolf]

I now know why classes are separated and why the rich are called the beautiful people. :(

That's the case in the USA, in ethnically homogenous nations that's not true. Poor or rich they all look similar, can be attractive or less so.

[Melina]

I don't really have a social life, but I do have online friends so it's all good. I usually don't like talking to people in person or being physically near them, except for maybe a few hours at a time once every several weeks.

Have you had a traumatic experience in your lifetime? I hear thing that some people were capable of doing so it makes me not want to interact sometimes. Then I see the lifetime movies that makes me think everyone is psycho and that I shouldn't say everything to everyone because they might use the info against me.

[Äijä]

what gave you that idea?

Your weird behavior.

[Dasr]

Your weird behavior.
I only love no hate

[Amud]

Have you had a traumatic experience in your lifetime? I hear thing that some people were capable of doing so it makes me not want to interact sometimes. Then I see the lifetime movies that makes me think everyone is psycho and that I shouldn't say everything to everyone because they might use the info against me.

Not really, it's more that 99% of the people I meet have nothing in common with me, and I'm quite socially awkward so it can be painful to interact with others. It usually just leads to frustration and/or boredom.

[Dasr]

When your heart is black and broken
And you need a helping hand
When you're so much in love
You don't know just how much you can stand

[Breedingvariety]

I now know why classes are separated and why the rich are called the beautiful people. :(
Classes are separated for two reasons. On one hand people have natural tendency to be arrogant, on the other hand there is a reason why lower classes are lower.

[Breedingvariety]

Have you had a traumatic experience in your lifetime? I hear thing that some people were capable of doing so it makes me not want to interact sometimes. Then I see the lifetime movies that makes me think everyone is psycho and that I shouldn't say everything to everyone because they might use the info against me.
I generally trust people until signs show up I shouldn't. I think we lose more due to paranoia, than we do due to trust.

[Trun]

I think having no social life is unhealthy. You should have at least one friend and family members to interact with. Especially when the holidays come. There is nothing more depressing than being alone while everyone is out.


I have a few friends and a family of course. What I meant is that I don't think I'd have ever been happy if I was one of those who go every night out or have 100 people liking their Facebook status "I have just farted". Knowing many people equals knowing many stupid people, may weird people, even many dangerous people. A lot of social interactions create gossips, gossips create hate.

Also having lots of people means you value those less. I have had experience with the past with "popular" people who I regarded as friends; they regarded me as "one of the mass". Maybe this is why I got partially dissapointed of "popular" people.

I know many people would say "people with no or little social life are losers and weirdos". In fact, being a loser or a weirdo has nothing to do with that, one can be an idiot and yet poke your nose everywhere people are. Also, many great minds prefered to be alone. Not that I'm advocating anything, just clarifying some things for those who like to generalize :P

[Breedingvariety]

To have many friends almost automatically means to compromise ones morals.

[Leliana]

I have very little social life. I do not make new friends easily and most of my old friends are no longer living. However, my 'phone rings almost constantly, All but one, or, at most two, calls a day are from political fund-raisers. As a result, I usually do NOT answer my telephone. Anyone who wants to communicate with me using Mr. Bell's invention will have to leave a message on my answering machine.
Fortunately, most of the SPAM accumulates on my other (old) screen name . This one remains mostly clear of it. So, my friends can reach me by e-mail.

I hate parties, especially cocktail parties, and , if I get roped into one, I concentrate on getting drunk as fast as possible. In my youth, I used to entertain myself at parties by giving people hot-foots, but that ill becomes the irksome dignity which is now expected of a man of my age.

It won't have a lot to do with the topic, but every time I read a post of you, I feel a subtle feeling of weakness. :redface_002: That an experienced and wise man like you is frequenting the board is a great honor but it also makes me feel a bit ashamed, considered the juvenile amount of garbage you have to face when you read the posts of people who could be your grand-children.

I've only but respect and sympathy for you. I saw your old photo and now I see your current photo in the avatar. You're the wise eldest of the forum. I know you're not so fond of Germans but I really think that we can be blessed that we have you as one of our regulars. :) I never know how to treat or address you properly. My usual way of talking to people on the Internet just feels not right, it's hard to describe.

[Dombra]

I am introverted enough to be excused for solitary. There is a limit to how much I can be around other people

[Svipdag]

As a child, I had NO social life. We never had visitors from outside the family. I remember only one birthday (my ninth) on which other children were invited to my party.My mother was pathologically antisocial. If an unexpected visitor came to the house, e.g. to see me, she would hide in the pantry ! She would never accept invitations to visit her friends because then she would have to invite them to visit her home, because she was ashamed of the mess, but never quite ashamed enough to DO anything about it.

Of course, she did not encourage me to accept invitations from my friends because "Then, you'll be obliged to invite them HERE." When I got older, i insisted on inviting friends over whose parents were no better housekeepers than she. But, by then, the non-socialising pattern was rather well established. Nowadays, I visit and am visited by some of my dwindling stock of friends from time to time.

[Neanderthal]

Oh, the subjectivity. 'Having no social life is unhealthy!' 'Having social life is for fools!'. Some brains are just wired differently. Just think about this for a second, if we all were outgoing or secluded, would we be capable to fulfill all the social roles and tasks? I don't think so. As much as brain and brawls are still needed to get stuff done.

By the way I loathe phone calls, I feel like smashing my phone on the ground every time I get one, specially from bank or when they try to sell me useless shit. I haven't put credit on my cellphone for 3 years now and my phone bill is almost nonexistent.

I like to go out tho, 1 or 2 times a week and that's it.

[Linebacker]

Wow some people here that replied on topic I thought had a social life.Its threads like this that really open me up to the desperate situations of some TA members

The situation here is worse than I thought

Get on the "Have a life" Ambulance please
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111009054106/uncyclopedia/images/e/e5/Ambulance.gif

[Äijä]

I have cut it down to minimum, I concentrate on the girfriend, family and few friends that I share the most in common.
I have been popular always so I dont have problems getting invites but I rarely go anymore.
Actually this place has more people that I have common with and enjoy talking to than the real life.

[Ice Brother]

Actually this place has more people that I have common with and enjoy talking to than the real life.

The Apricity is where all the split lineages come to re-unite again.

[Archduke]

Many people here are so strange...

[Svipdag]

Sometimes I just turn my phone off. I love being social but enough is enough sometimes.

Usually I turn mine off because most of the calls are SPAM, little from telemarketers these days (Thank God !), but altogether too much from political fundraisers. My answering machine message says ...."If you are a telemarketer or a fundraiser, please hang up RIGHT NOW and NEVER call this number again." Some do; others are not to be daunted. Those who persist in defiance of my request are wasting their time because they antagonise me so that I ignore the message.