living your life on the internet

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The only reason my life is online is because most of the people I talk to live their lives online.

i supose you make good points, i just think the past is always better for some reason because i really dont know what tomorrow will bringggg

i feel an emo song comming up.

but in all serioseness im am just unprepaired for life, and need to keep in mind that it could always be worse so why cry? exactley. *gets dramatic*

Oh I hope it's evanescence I love there music .

No I'm just kiding , just trying to cheer you up.

It is a wonderful cyber life topic

I have always preferred print to living, breathing people.

The dynamics of active humanity is just too confusing for me. I can get my head around print a lot more easily.

I live most my life on the internet, but that's because it tends to shun me less than real life.

richardbenson wrote:

Maybe there is a demon in your computer.

I can't live without the internet. I'd die without it. Yes, I have Internet Addiction Disorder. I spend 24 hours a day on the Internet. Sleep? What's that again? I just have to know what is going on in the world. I spend more time on the internet than watching TV. Of course the TV shows are on the internet now anyways. Everything is on the internet.

Richard, why don't you devote your life to trying to meet your online friends? Then your life on the internet will not have been a waste, and even if you don't met them it still won't have been a waste because friendships exist online too. Don't bother yourself thinking it isn't real. It's just as real as "real life" relationships, just different.

richardbenson, what is your avatar ?
thank you,

Merle

I'm just a few years younger than you, SB, and the best years of my life ... how to measure them? Health? Safety? Security? Employment? Friends? Personal growth? I can't really remember a time when all of these factors were present at once.

Perhaps a person's "Best Years" are what they make of them. Childhood, college, parenthood, military life ... each had its own best features.

As for Internet life, it's the only venue where I can express myself honestly and not (usually) have to be deceitful for the sake of others. I can speak my mind, and as long as I stick to the facts and refrain from attacking anyone, everything is okay.

I could never get away with such honesty in real life.

No sh1t, eh?

Im the same way too! Ever since I graduated college in 2003 Ive maintained a Very ACTIVE, chronic presence online. I think that the internets was invented by folks like us for folks like us, and boy is FUN!
BTW Merle, had I had to live any portion of my life on the streets, I have NO DOUBT that I would end up in jail pretty quick.

lucky you! Jail (three hots and a cot) was sometimes preferable to sleeping on cardboard, or on the beach, or under upturned row boats by the lakes, on rooftops or . . .

(and please, don't evade the forbidden word censor. When you are chatting to me, I can't ignore it and not tell you to not do it, Haliphron.)

Merle

One...tiny...little thing i could add:

(i assume you're a guy right ?)

Do some fitness. just get some weights.. and lift them, do push ups & sit ups.

keep you offline atleast 15 min a day and it's "usefull" since your body improves. Also, it's a repetitive thing so you can make it fit into your life as a ritual.

But i'm kinda in the same situation here..

"nothing going on...so lets turn on the PC"

Ow and another important thing: You can try to do other stuff, but DON'T see internet as a "sin". This will break your self image...

I am the same way. I think I have spent the majority of my time online, from the end of high school, up until now. I would come home, and go straight to my room and hop on the 'net and stay there, until it was time to eat. I even stopped visiting with my family, because I thought being online was more important. I'm slowly starting to change this around though.

I don't see anything wrong with getting on the 'net, but I do think it's a bad idea to be on here all day, everyday. Talk about life passing you by. I'm also getting tired of people telling me I need to "get out more".
One reason I did this though , was because I didn't really have a lot of people to do things with, and you can only do so much by yourself. Things are starting to change for the better I think.

yeah I arguably spend TOO much time on the 'net.....

I've been spending more time on here lately because my work days had been cut, so I am home all the time now and I am bored, so I lurk here and click around and have been making more posts.


But I go and take a walk to get some exercise and I am reading a story online. I really need to go out and find other things to do so I am not in my apartment all the time.