Extreme social apathy.

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Lately I've grown very apathetic to social situations. If someone is not already a friend of mine, I really just can't care anymore. And even then, with the few people I really cherish, I'm finding it harder than usual to communicate.

This is happening for every form of communication. Forums and social sites aren't interesting at all, if anything a bother to keep up with. I can barely keep up an IM conversation anymore, which is pretty extreme for me.

The affect it's had overall, however, has been pretty good. I feel much less stressed, and have become more productive towards meaningful goals. Growing extremely apathetic certainly can't be good in the long run though, but I'm really having a hard time finding reason why, beyond keeping friendly enough to coworkers.

My close friends won't find it terribly odd at least. Even if I grow socially distant, they'll still be like family.

Has anybody else gone through a phase like this? Not that it feels phasey, per se... in fact, I feel like if I don't act against this growing trait, it'll stick with me for good. I feel like this is something I shouldn't allow to happen (hence the forum post), but I can't really be motivated to stop it without good reason.

Not really.
I am only apathetic to total strangers, unless it's something like I see someone being beat up or being bullied. Only serious stuff I care about.
Other time with friends or family or anyone I have gotten to know and like, I will care.
Even with characters in books or tv shows or movies, whatever.
I am prone to caring for anything with feelings, lol
But even when I do care, I will only sometimes do something about it.

I have phases where I don't feel like talking to anyone on Msn or Facebook for weeks, and that I'll only speak to them if they bump into me in person. My longest record so far is about 3 months.

I think I'm at a point where I don't care anymore, which actually feels better, more comforting. Unfortunately though I don't have friends now so this isn't good but I can't do anything about that. I just have to hope I will get lucky and be able to make a few friends along the way despite this growing sense of apathy, otherwise I will just be a loner for the rest of my life. I guess I can handle it. People only cause stress and upset anyway in one way or another. I feel much more at peace these days with the solitude. Whatever works I guess is best.

Cool, sounds like it isn't such a big deal after all.

I guess I was kind of worrying that the inevitable deterioration of social skills and pressure management would be too unfavorable to prefer the merits of it. However, too much social contact does the same to me so it's all just equilibrium I guess.

Anyways, this is now a general social apathy thread. Join, or not.

Woo, I'll hop on the social apathy train! It's very much how I describe what I've been going through for the last few months. It's actually been great, freeing.

Edit: LOL that I called it a train! I've clearly been playing Zelda Spirit Tracks for too long

I'm the same way and it seems to have gotten worse lately. I've also fallen into the worst depression of my life lately. Just don't feel like I can relate or connect to anyone anymore and I have very few common interests to talk about with people. I'll often listen in on conversations but find that I have nothing to say. I just feel bored/disinterested. Blah. I hate my life.