I’ll have you know i’m busy eating unhealthy food and playing video games.

If you feel bored i can highly reccomend learning an instrument or reading, i play guitar and read history and philosophy books.

Clearly there are at least a dozen of us losers without social lives or friends

Or at least pretending to be…

I sat at a desk all weekend 🙃

Do you ever make art? Drawing, photography, creative writing? Is there a medium that appeals to you?

If it makes you feel better I’m not posting as much because I’m delirious with illness

Hey, some of us are sleeping all day.

I’m sorry you’re feeling this way, what would be most helpful in terms of support?

I have a “solution-oriented” mindset, so what follows may not be what you need or are looking for. I’ll leave it to someone else to chime in with a different flavor.

Your imagination is your own worst enemy here, resenting or hating others for having a good time isn’t going to fix anything.

Everybody’s got problems, getting drunk at a club or campfire guitar in the woods could be two different formats of escape from the chaotic world we’re all living in.

So, ultimately, I ask of you - what are you going to do about it?

If you’re not finding fulfillment here, make a change. Go observe nature, take on a new hobby (like guitar!) sign up for a class or workshop to forge new connections. If you’re unable to go places and truly confined to the internet, seek out community for things like online tabletop gaming.

If you prefer to dwell in the negativity, that is your choice, but that’s where you’ll stay unless you do something.

Solidarity, solitary sibling!

Working parent here! I’m a little afraid to admit my social life could best be described as “social distancing” - so your aren’t alone out there or on here. I’ve had periods of my life that were less social than others. During one of those in my 20s, I would get really stoned and go " urban hiking" or “big house watching.” It killed a lot of time and was relatively healthy. Hope you find your niche!

You can be doing the same things, just get up, go outside, start off with a walk around your neighborhood.

I don’t have a life… I just work weekends. 😩

Recently I’ve mostly been doing caregiver stuff for my kid, with a little bit of getting drunk at the club with friends now that his mom is back (replace drunk with ‘tipsy and stoned’, ‘club’ with ‘local music-themed bar’, and friends with ‘the other poor souls for whom this place is a nice distraction from the shithole that is our lives’. Though I am shooting for friendship because some of those folks are actually really fucking cool, we all just happen to be a wee bit damaged).

Sometimes being a hype man for these folks so they’re aware of how fucking cool they actually are (musicians, comedians, artists, general fascinating weirdos, the occasional poet) is the only thing getting me through the following week.

My posting hours are evenings, and visits to the bathroom. Occasionally a slow weekend.

No social life here, just trying to give my weekends to my kids. Trying not to ruin their present with my constant worrying about their future.

Often times people are browsing but not posting. When you feel like this, be the change you want to see and start posting.

Also, always try to think about how the mechanism of attenuation cannot amplify. Every time any of us are negative, especially towards the OP of any post, we are attenuating. That action has a very real impact on the behavior of most people that post. If no one is effectively amplifying them, they will stop posting. So think about your feedback for others in these terms. Your primary form of feedback should be trying to say ‘hey, thanks for participating and being part of this community’. I upvote stuff all the time in niches where I have no actual interest just because it is a real person posting something that is important to them. If I only cared to vote for what I think is interesting or of value, I would rarely ever vote, but that mindset is the hubris of fuckwit narcissists. I am not what is important here, the community is. I want to be in a community. I came for the community. So I have an obligation to reinforce positive feedback that helps sustain and grow the community. All that attenuate, are bringing the place down to a grinding halt. You cannot fix stupidity in anyone except yourself. You can talk about your own solutions and awareness to encourage others to change. Your choice to be a force of attenuation or amplification is not optional. Only your self awareness is a factor here. Down voting is for bots and shills. Indifference is a negative vote when one considers the overall state of attenuation from ignorant folks. Every positive input is sustaining the present. Truly remarkable supportive feedback is the only growth mechanism available through interaction here. These are real people. The ones you think of as rock solid core contributors, are actually likely to be on the edge of quitting at any time.

everyone is secretly dead. there is no God