Do your lives revolve around internet forums?

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Only because your friends are too busy to bother with you, so you end up making a fool of yourself on internet forums. Just to pretend you matter for once, even if in a bad way.

My live revolve mostly from writing on social networks.

I am too busy to bother with internet forums in general, so I end up making a fool of myself on the other side of the free expression venue. To me it's not matter, it's spiritual and virtual, not necessary in a bad way.

My life used to revolve around WP and other Internet forums. There was a time that I used to spend the majority of my daytime hours on WP. My life revolves around my hobbies and interests these days. I try to make time to post on WP once a week. I like to keep all of you posted om how things are going in my life.

I have WP open on a laptop and I post when I'm not reading, or doing other hobbies.

I think I use it as a personal entertainment (word games / posting music), or to keep a bit of diary about what's happening in my life via the posts I write.

I wouldn't say my life revolves around it at all. I can be on here typing but my mind and my heart are a million miles away on other things.

WP is the first forum I've ever joined, so I could see if I really am autistic (undiagnosed) or not. I must be because so far I haven't read anything that I've had a problem with, even though I don't agree with everything.
I check in too many times a day haha, but that's because I'm at home so much. It's a decent site, happy to be here.

more forums, i don't know any
even this is more depressing than not, so logically i shouldn't do this at all

(as an prediction i guessed by 2020 internet would be gated, i gathered commercially, but its even more dire)

My life used to revolve around them. Back in the day I was a regular on several super big ones.

Sadly, yes.

No.

My life revolves around countless personal inconsistencies and attempts to make order out of it accordingly to those around me, which is just as countless of a variable.

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No, but they cause significant eddies in the general rotatation.

My life revolves around lots of things; work, family, friends, pets, hobbies, errands, housekeeping, bills, health, money... I could go on and on. So, yeah, I suppose WP and other internet sites are part of my life too.

My life revolves around my wife, kids, grandkids, work, church, and solving other people's problems.  An occasional overseas trip is also included.  WP is a side-interest.

Yeah, unfortunately. I guess as the OP says, I don't have social life so I don't know what else to do. Except that its worse than what OP says. Its not like my supposed friends are too busy; rather its that I don't have friends on the first place.

Internet is not a solution since its not real. If anything, its addictive and it ruins my studies. Before COVID 19 hit, I was looking for various tricks to get myself off of the internet. Like I would purposely leave my computer in the office, so that I wouldn't go to internet in my dorm, and then I would go studying some place really far away from my office, so that I would avoid interent while studying, and I would also leave a cell phone elsewhere as well. Well, it didn't work too well, since I needed cell phone to call the uber. So then I would take a cell phone and not take its charger so that I would have an insentive not to use up its charge. But nope, I ended up using up its charge anyway and then buying a charger. So it wasn't too effective.

One thing that made it difficult -- before COVID 19 hit -- is that there is no place to run away from seeing others socializing. And each time I see them, I feel miserable. Then -- after COVID 19 hit -- I first thought that things would get easier. I was walking by near-empty streets where the few people that were around were by themselves, just like me. But nope it didn't become easier. They locked down the buildings so "if" I were to leave my computer at the office, I wouldn't be able to write any physics papers either. So I had to take the computer out of the office. And now, with the lockdown, I can't go study in the restaurant either (the days when I thought that COVID 19 would somehow help me was "before" the lockdown started) So now I have 24/7 internet access.

I guess my solution to this is that -- since I am not going to get away from the internet during the lockdown -- lets at least make the best use of it possible, and publish as much of my un-published physics papers as I possibly can. And then -- after COVID 19 is over -- I will celebrate it by taking a few day trip without my computer and cell phone and WITH a bunch of physics textbooks so that I could study them without any disraction. And, as an added bonus, I will be able to study them without thinking that I "should" be working on my publications, since I will have all my publications already.

Well, I don't think this plan will work as nicely as I hope. For one thing, it is really hard for me to convince journals to accept my papers, as my track record shows. I am planning to do few things different -- such as trying to focus more on my past papers that are already written as opposed to writing something new -- but I don't really know how much it would help, I would have to come back and tell you. And, for the other thing, COVID 19 probably won't end as cleanly as I hope it would. It probably would be dangerous to go on trains (and yes I picture myself taking a train) and maybe it will even be dangerous to be in restaurants too. So I will still be at home stuck with my laptop. But who knows, I can always hope.

Incidentally, a year before COVID 19 hit, I met a girl online and we were going to skype for the first time, but I was late due to me taking few day trip without my laptop. I was all worried about being late, but she ended up liking it since she said she was impressed by how brave I was to take a trip by myself. And then there was another occasion -- few years ago -- when I told a girl how I got lost back as a kid when I tried to cross the forest, and she was impressed too. I turned off both of these girls later on -- in both cases due to being needy. But the thing is that both of them were turned "on" by my travels, even though I wasn't even trying to do it I was just talking. And then there was a third case when I went to a campground by myself and tried to put on a tent and then in the morning a girl complimented me on how well I did it (I didn't know what to respond to her, not too used to it, so it didn't know beyond the compliment). So who knows maybe if I keep traveling I "would" get myself a girlfriend this way? Once again, given how sporadic those incidents were, it might be too much to hope for. But if you compare to how sh***y I am doing otherwise, it might at least be "something".

Not at all. This one is the only one I've been active in in a few years... but well, I suppose it wouldn't be too far fetched to say that my freetime revolves around different sites in the internet. I do other stuff than just surf the net too of course, but my computer does take most of my freetime.

This is the only forum I'm on but I'd say my life does honestly revolve a lot around the internet and social media. I spend a lot of time on Discord, Tumblr, Facebook, and other websites. I'm also constantly using the internet to stream shows and music. I also take all my college classes online, but I feel like that's different.

I like fora better than other social media but honestly I am not using them much any more; would love to leave W.P. entirely because it's just getting kind of dull around here and doesn't seem to help. I like a few of the people here though.