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[ SECRET POST #2068 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2068 ⌋

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[Tiger & Bunny]

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[Queer as Folk USA]

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[Devil May Cry]

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[The Key of Awesome! Maroon 5 Payphone Parody: Game of Thrones]

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[Lorraine Star]

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07. http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d194/throwme2thedogs/fablesecret.jpg
[linked for illustrated nudity/porn; Fable]

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11. [SPOILERS for Kamen Rider Fourze]

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12. [WARNING for sexual assault]

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13. [titc #2]

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14. [WARNING for rape, violence]

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15. [WARNING for eating disorders]

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I spend most of my time on the internet, and yet I have hardly any friends to talk to. That is to say I have several social networking accounts and I am terrible at social networking. Then I just feel really alone and I don't know how to make any friends and I see all these people with their tumblrs where they just reblog each other and make jokes and literally no one talks to me on tumblr apart from maybe one person who is my friend irl who just sometimes uses the ask box as a contact device.
It just feels really pointless and I feel like I should really just delete every single account I have because sometimes it all just makes me feel sad rather than happy. And it's stupid that I get overworked about these things in the first place. I just... I feel sad about the internet. Should I delete some accounts or what? I doubt I will ever make many friends because I'm just so terrible at it and I feel so alone.

In completely unrelated news, my cat has been missing for five days and I expected I would end up going to fs asking for happy things to cheer me up, but she turned up today! She's a bit worse for wear but I just have to wonder where on earth she went and what happened that caused her to not come home for so long. Cats, amirite? What do they get up to???

I'm not sure why I shared all that but what the hell

Awww, anon. I don't have too many friends on any of the social networking sites I'm on (not what I use them for oddly), I've always found it's easier to do so through forums and IRC. If you can find a forum or channel related to your interests, particularly one with an active chatbox or IRC channel, that could help you.

Glad to hear your cat is okay, though.

Making friends is harder when you are anon.

Heh, making friends is hard, period.

I'm glad you found your cat and she's okay.

I know, but whenever I want to make a comment in this thread I always want to go anon. I'm not really sure why.

congrats on your cat coming home, i'm really happy for you! coincidentally i am also missing a feline member of my family but i think he's gone for good. :( my mother thought maybe he ran off to die somewhere (he's super old and senile) but there were no traces of him anywhere, so now we're thinking he was picked up, especially since other members of our complex have been calling animal control over ferals around here.

but he's friendly and he meows, is well-fed and loves people so you'd think they would have gathered he was a pet...

anyway we're still looking for him, it's been about a week for us. i sure hope we find him. i wonder where he is now.

regarding the no-friends thing, i'm the same way. i always sign up for social networking sites and then realise i have nobody to add and no means by which to find people to add, hehe. that's mostly why i participate here, i'm hoping i make some friends eventually.
the only place i've really been successful in connecting with people has been epicmafia?? so if you like to play mafia, you might want to try that (though it helps to set yourself apart from other people, even if it means some people will love you and others will hate you).

ayrt

oh, I'm sorry about your cat! I hope he's ok and that you find him. The worst part is just having no idea what could have happened. =(

I don't really know what epicmafia is, I might have to give it a look. Thanks! And I'd like to make some friends here too, since I'm not really that close to anyone. The problem is that often I can't find anything I want to comment on, so I'm like a semi-lurker most of the time. I need to put myself out there more, but then I just feel like I could be annoying people. You can't win sometimes.

EM is silly and there are a lot of trolls (and sometimes mean people) but i've taken a liking to it. maybe you will too.

I'm so happy your cat came back, anon! My cat will go out for the entire night, return by morning, and demands attention. Lather, rinse, repeat. I wonder what he does out there sometimes.

As for not being to make friends online? I can completely relate. I'm terrible at it. Irl, it's no issue, but once I'm online, I can't seem to connect worth a damn. I'm active, I comment, I create, but just doesn't seem to be enough? Like, on lj and tumblr, people will follow/friend me, but that seems to be the extent of it - not many will talk to me after that, and I do make the effort to, but I end up ignored most of the time.

It amuses and perplexes me at times.

Making friends is hard. :/ Keeping them can be a damn challenge too.

Maybe comment/post more under your username/accounts? That's the best way to make friends, even though I know it can be tiresome, especially if it doesn't seem to be leading anywhere. You just kind of have to stick with it imo; and if you're lucky, eventually you'll find someone. I know what it's like, and I understand feeling sad, but I don't think deleting your accounts is going to make you feel any better. :/ *hugs*

And yay kitty! I hope she's feeling all better soon. <3

I don't use social networking, but I do use sites like Tumblr/LJ/DW to try and make friends...and for years I've been failing spectacularly at it. I have a grand total of one, who lives in another country.

I try hard to be polite and friendly, and in my main fandom I've actually written a couple of popular fanfics, so sometimes people contact me because of that. Sometimes we even start chatting, but sooner or later it breaks down, they get tired of me and stop replying. I guess I'm not as cool as they were imagining, or something. I don't know where it goes wrong, it just feels lonely and depressing. More than once I've thought about leaving the fandom and deleting my fics, but I can't quite bear to let go of them.

I'm glad your cat came home safely. One of mine is curled up next to me right now. Thankfully they never venture further than the garden (the younger likes to chase bees/spiders/everything, the older just watches).

Aw, it's ok anon. Truthfully, social networking sites are hit and miss. Most of the people I actually talk to frequently on tumblr are just people I roleplay with on twitter. The rest of the people who follow me is just a weird amalgamation of people I met on omegle, a few fanfiction authors that I like, one person I met on here, one person from real life, and a few other people who either followed me because I followed them or they liked a joke I made that I tagged right so they decided to follow me. It's really not uncommon to have very few people who follow you on tumblr :) Maybe you could make friends on other parts of the internet and then follow them on tumblr?

Also I'm happy for you about your cat!

I know how you feel.

I wish I had a cat, though.

Yeah...yeah. Social networking isn't very useful if you're not outgoing. You gotta be willing to get out there and say "Hey, I like you, wanna PM/RP/be friends?" And risk either outright rejection or acceptance and discovering you never having anything to say to each other so it awkwardly fizzles out. Sometimes you might get lucky and land on a few people who are OMG PERFECT and talk to them forever (this happens to me rarely) but it'll never be very frequent and often you'll drift apart anyway eventually, and then you have to start the hit-and-miss process all over again. It's pretty discouraging.

I can't say not to give up because I'm feeling like I should myself these days, but it's so so amazing when you connect with those few friends, so I keep hoping.

And I'm so happy your cat came back! I lost one of mine outside (they're indoor kits) for half a day once and it was nerve-wracking. Five days would have taken years off my life.

I think social networking can be especially awkward when you're shy or withdrawn because, like you point out, you can see very easily how much everyone else appears to be interacting compared to you. Of course, it's also worth remembering that there are other people out there who, like you, aren't interacting that much. You likely notice the people who interact publicly a lot more than those who are more in the background.

I think you have to be willing to be a little outgoing in order to actually get to know people. Sometimes it'll work and sometimes it won't, but if you don't make a point to interact with people you find interesting, it can be pretty unlikely that anything will happen.

I'm glad to hear about your cat! Glad she seems to be all right.

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