Learning social skills through magazines

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I was a total dork in middle and high school due to being socially isolated and having religious parents and I did not understand the modern slang so I would read magazines and repeat the language I picked up in the magazine. I did not know the correct context of these terms and overused them. As a result I ended up sounding like a caricature of the clebrity obsessed entertainment world. In addition, my school was more academically challenging so the kids were more socially laid back and didn't use these "hip" terms in their vocabulary so I ended up looking even more ridiculous. Anyone have a similar experience?

No. I think learning social skills through magazines sounds like an abysmal idea. My way of sounding like a college text book by the age of eleven was probably slightly less ridiculous. At least it enabled me to speak with adults without ridicule, which is arguably better than not being able to speak with anyone.

I learned vocabulary and trends though teen magazines and popular websites. I don't speak like a dictionary machine. Sometimes I even use too much slang words (wrong).
Maybe I didn't learn much social skills, but I learned something about teen behaviour and what young women think about. I'm considered just eccentric now, not stereotypical nerd like before.

I learnt social skills off of kids and teen TV, this was a bad idea as they all had morals at the end of the story and this year at the age of 23, I have finally learnt that this is not how the world works and have to had to become more wary of people and realise that there will not always be a good ending! Yes, I am an idiot! Lolz