For those of you whose only form of human interaction is imageboards

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giving your thread a bump because I'm curious too
I'm trying to break free from the hikikomori life before it becomes too late. I'm just 18 but I feel like that I've become so reclusive in the past two years that I feel like I have to learn how to be part of society again.

>>35413737
>>35413433
adding onto that, normies are starting to take over all sorts of boards now

>>35413737
in 5 years you will be 23 and you'll still feel like a dumbfuck teenager
5 years
make the most of it

Sometimes I look through the threads that are up and I feel alienated and old. It's harder to find threads I'm interested in now. 4chan has changed a lot.

>>35413737
21 here
unless you have any real drive or ambitions, it will never get better

>>35413932
I'm 23 and this is true, I still feel like I'm stuck at 17. But years are starting to hang above me and it's only going to get harder.

>>35413737
>I'm just 18

You are so fucking stupid and naive. I'm 27 and would sell my soul to be 18 again and fix my life.

>>35413433
I have never fit in anywhere, not even on 4chan ,
the anonymous platform just gives me a n opportunity fort hit and run conversations.

give me 3 more years and this will probably be me
i can feel myself getting less and less friends and now have about 3 people I'd call my friends online or not. shit sucks man

>>35413932
Can confirm 100%. I'm 23 and I feel no different from when I graduated highschool in 2012. Everyone else is moving out of their parent's place, having relationships and I am sitting in my room still browsing 4chan. 0 friends, never had a job, dropped out of college.

It only gets worse, so please don't make the same mistake I did.

Get started right now, don't wait. Get a job AT LEAST. Experience is more important than a degree in most respects. An employer is going to take someone with 4 years of experience flipping burgers than a philosophy student straight out of college never having had a job.

Being NEET is fun for a little while but it quickly becomes your own personal prison, where each day gives you a new problem you're just going to have to deal with later on in life. It's not worth it.

>>35413433
You're not alone. Isn't that ironic? But I think people like me are just doomed and you are better off exploring the net taking whatever interests you but I'm sure you already knew that.
This situation sucks but what are you going to do to change it? Wedging yourself in a new, maybe somewhat obscure net community is scary. I feel this path leads to death if you can't handle it and a lot of people put on a tough face but let me tell you it is HARD

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>>35414099
Not him but I'm 18 too.
I don't want to sound edgy or anything, but I fear it's already too late for me, my life has always been shit, and the more time I spend on imageboards, the more I learn there are other people in a roughly similar situation.
It could be because this batch was born already inserted into the digital world, making it sooner and easier to just retreat to a room and stay there forever.

>>35414252
Feel however you want, but you are still very young and have lots of time. You may not understand that now but you will in a decade.

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>>35414252
>It could be because this batch was born already inserted into the digital world, making it sooner and easier to just retreat to a room and stay there forever.
I am the anon >>35414099 is replying to and this is exactly it. It's been this way ever since I was a kid, slowly spirialling down to where I am today. Imageboards and social media just gave me a site of refuge, where I could ignore my problems until they eventually became too much. I'm trying to fix myself and eventually rejoin society but it's just tiny steps right now. Maybe one day.

>>35414252
Dude, giving up is dope. Who gives a shit if Chad laughs at you being a shut-in with your soon-to-come VR waifu? Someday his Stacy will sleep with a bigger Chad and he'll cry and hang himself because it's his first time having his life fucked up. Meanwhile you'll grow old on your NEETbux, having spent life in relative bliss with your constantly upgraded catwife.

Yes, I'm 30 and been a hermit for 17 years now, been here since the 2003-4 SA exodus. The demographics filter through here and then leave, I share nothing in common with them anymore. Fags, women, and tumblrites were nearly non-existent and there was no social media culture garbage here, it was great until smart phones were invented. You could have loli as an official board, weeks of downtime trying to find hosts and the culture that protected it, furspam was actually straight, no trapfags, etc.


Then around 2007 it started getting shittier until this place sold out and the new insufferable social media bred fuck ups invaded, now it's as disposible as Reddit/Tumblr, etc. Tripfags, avatarfags, namefags, everywhere and not just a few like SovietRussia and co used to be. I'm part of a (still anon) group with a handful others, this place isn't permanent for any group. I really hope the next generation has less weak homosexuals and women.

Then again most of my furry porn went gay too and became a write off, maybe old people just become bitter. Either way I look forward to killing this generation of faggots when the day of the rope comes.

>>35414370
>Imageboards and social media just gave me a site of refuge, where I could ignore my problems until they eventually became too much.

And you think it isn't the same for me? I've been on this site for 11 fucking years. When I think of what could have been done during that time, well, I say fix your shit while you have time because it will eventually run out.

>>35413433
>do you ever feel that even here you're not welcome?

My views are predominantly liberal, so yes. But 4chan's userbase doesn't actually run the site, so it really doesn't matter what other anons think about me.

I think the only reason I stick around is because the site needs some concordant opposition to keep the boards from being fully assimilated into a massive /pol/ echo chamber.

>>35414310
>>35414379
Look
>terrible health (physical and mental) since born
>too poor to afford "healthy"
>too poor to afford medicine
>too poor to afford healthcare
I literally have no energy to get out of bed, I stay in bed for 16 or 20 hours a day, and the remaining time I'm either eating, shitting or shitposting. I don't have control over my life. So please stop implying I'm just being a lazy fuck or weak or whatever.
I don't want to improve either, I don't mind this life, I'm just telling you how things are.
And I'll agree with OP in saying it has become extremely embarassing blogposting even on anonymous imageboards, on the very boards MEANT (or at least turned into) blogposting and venting boards.

Normies and children are the issue, the need to stop posting and start lurking.

>>35414459
I'm going to be honest, I kind of encourage traposting for this reason,
dont care for traps but as far as I can tell trapfags seems to be the only check against /pol/shit

>>35414472
>>too poor to afford "healthy"
not really anon,
you can eat healthy on a budget, if you are willing to sacrifice enjoy food the way you normally do.