Do you bury yourself in online socializing sites/ MMORPGs?

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For example you are either a Facebook, Myspace, or any other online socializing site addict or a WoW, MapleStory, or any other MMORPG addict. I find myself making MapleStory as my haven for socializing. I have to face it, I can't social IRL for crap so I'm addicted to the game so I get a chance to talk to people. It feels nice when I have a nice ring of friends that'll hold pleasant conversations with me. True, spending too much time on the computer isn't healthy, but where else do I fill the emptiness of being lonely in my life. I'm looking for a way to spend less time on the computer so it won't ruin my eyes, but I just can't. Discuss?

I play Pardus. I don't RP or anything, but it is a focus of my internet use.

I'm just as bad at making friends online as I am in the real world, and I've never once been successful in either case. So, no.

Yes, I'm addicted to MMORPGs. Yes, my eyes are ruined. I hope you have more luck with this problem than I have had.

I'm not into any of the two things above, only console games, like mario, zelda, sonic, pokemon, final fantasy..

Yeah, I'm in a tight spot for socialising as well as being quite shy irl, so online is good.

I used to be addicted to RuneScape. Overall, I'd say that I'm less inhibited when talking to people online than when face to face.

I use Facebook regularly, and I used to use MySpace, but I wouldn't say that I'm buried in either of those sites. I use them mainly to talk to certain people, and it's usually the same group of people.

I have the same results online as I do off. Failure. I've taken it upon myself to remove myself from direct contact with anyone because things go wrong otherwise. I have a cat, at least.

I can't make (more) friends with people in onlinegames or chats...

I'm chatting since ~7yrs now and I had a best friend on the internet, but that's over already.
Still there are like 2-3 people in MSN who, sometimes, talk with me. It's not easier in virtual live for me... x_x

I have a small network, mostly of people I know in real life or people I've known long-term online, on Facebook.
I've tried MMOs and similar (including Second Life) but I found them ultimately unsatisfying, in part due to the people - sometimes their attitudes, sometimes their unwillingness to get into the roleplaying side - and sometimes due to the limitations of any given platform. (Second Life, for example - the TARDISes on sale were nice but the environment was too buggy for them to work well, and my own attempts to build were stymied by the available basic shapes and transformations, both of which were very limited)

I'd like to game online more with the right kind of people, but even as far back as Half-Life, it's hard to get quality opposition...

It's WoW and FB for me...

But in the beginning, I was even too shy to talk to people in WOW.

"Remember to spend time with your friends outside of Azeroth as well..."

Losing my once perfect vision from too much computer use has its upside; I stare at people less now because I can't see them

I play online roleplay gamemode in a HL2 mod called garrysmod. That is the extent of my social life off WP.

Once okay several times before. Used to play WoW and was so into the raiding guilds, socializing and gaining uber virtual pixels loots. Recently just started becoming isolated from those wow friends I once had. Maybe just waiting for a brand new interactive mmo to start over again.

In the past, I tried out myspace and used Habbo. I quit Myspace due to 90% of the profiles being of "scene" kids, prostitutes, wannabe-gangsters, and pedophiles. As with Habbo, I've gotten banned from that site so many times that I just didn't care for the site anymore. The people on Habbo were just like those on Myspace; the only difference being that on Habbo, you didn't have actual photos of people, but instead pixel lego-like characters that meandered around. That, and the fact that many of them were a lot younger than those on Myspace.

As of right now, I use Facebook. It's not exactly my favourite site, but it's quite satisfactory in my opinion.

Last edited by Teung on 28 Aug 2009, 2:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Soon is going to be release Aion ^^;;