EmilyFoxSeaton
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Recently, after the election, I left a message board I have frequented for a while. What it came down to was a realization that they weren't good for me. I stay talking with them because they are permissive in who they will talk to but the message board is, essentially, for people who don't want to do anything. Who want to complain about the world but not actually move ahead. A helplessness. Each has a way of thinking that is warped and things I can no longer tolerate.. But I don't want to be a mess anymore. I don't want to hear their excuses. I don't want to hear their same advices that I can practically telegraph. I don't say that by way of judgment more like way of explanation. It is entirely possible I just out grew away from them. I started talking to them in the early 2000s.
So I started looking around for other message boards and for the most part it seems extremely hard to find message boards or discussions that do not revolve around extremely messed up people. It is perhaps a function of the internet that most people who are on messages boards might be home from work and could be there to a variety of issues such as mental illness or depression... but even within such boards there are normal topic discussions -- but good luck getting a response. The vast majority of the activity seems to be in threads that are concerning mental health issues or generally what I like to call... snowflakes... who might get super upset over the slightest thing. I have registered on a few boards that turned out to have no one in them.
Here is a question... where do you -- or do you, find normal people to talk to? And when I say normal people I just mean people that will be an improvement to my life and not a hinderance. People that have good suggestions and are accurate in what they say. People who speak more than two lines in a response.
Other than here which again, is excluded from this post.
And if they answer is that I need to get off the internet where do you meet normal people in real life over a certain age. One reason the internet seems to perfect for me is that I just don't have time due to work to meet with people and maintain friendships like I can on the net.
Recently, after the election, I left a message board I have frequented for a while. What it came down to was a realization that they weren't good for me. I stay talking with them because they are permissive in who they will talk to but the message board is, essentially, for people who don't want to do anything. Who want to complain about the world but not actually move ahead. A helplessness. Each has a way of thinking that is warped and things I can no longer tolerate.. But I don't want to be a mess anymore. I don't want to hear their excuses. I don't want to hear their same advices that I can practically telegraph. I don't say that by way of judgment more like way of explanation. It is entirely possible I just out grew away from them. I started talking to them in the early 2000s.
So I started looking around for other message boards and for the most part it seems extremely hard to find message boards or discussions that do not revolve around extremely messed up people. It is perhaps a function of the internet that most people who are on messages boards might be home from work and could be there to a variety of issues such as mental illness or depression... but even within such boards there are normal topic discussions -- but good luck getting a response. The vast majority of the activity seems to be in threads that are concerning mental health issues or generally what I like to call... snowflakes... who might get super upset over the slightest thing. I have registered on a few boards that turned out to have no one in them.
Here is a question... where do you -- or do you, find normal people to talk to? And when I say normal people I just mean people that will be an improvement to my life and not a hinderance. People that have good suggestions and are accurate in what they say. People who speak more than two lines in a response.
Other than here which again, is excluded from this post.
And if they answer is that I need to get off the internet where do you meet normal people in real life over a certain age. One reason the internet seems to perfect for me is that I just don't have time due to work to meet with people and maintain friendships like I can on the net.