>tfw zero friends >tfw socially retarded and can't make friends >overhear coworkers talking about things they do with friends, and things they saw on Instagram and Snapchat >they mention Facebook and WhatsApp >i don't have any kind of social media what do i even say if someone asks me for my WhatsApp name? or wonder why i don't have any social media, and how i communicate with my friends. do i pretend i have friends and i just text them regularly? or do i own up and tell people I'm friendless?
Find something you like doing or are interested in.
For example, I think rugby might be fun. I'm going to join a local team even though I have never played in my entire life and am pretty sure my heart will give out during the first practice.
Meet people and talk to them. Meet friends of people and talk to them.
Congratulations, you will likely have one or more friends.
Unless you're absolute garbage at the game. >jk, bb
Gavin Price
yes
>Meet people and talk to them. Meet friends of people and talk to them. how do i talk to them? i don't have much to say tbqh
i see coworkers regularly, but none are my friends >overhear coworkers doing things together outside of work (grabbing food, going to a bar, parties, etc.) >don't get invited by them
Dominic Collins
you're going to have to go nofap then, friendo.
Julian Murphy
i tried it for 30 days once, was still the same after
Aiden Richardson
Try it for longer. If you're going to relate to people, you need to become a person to be worthy of relating to. Improve your mind from all angles. Watch videos on social interaction if you're really stuck. But for the most part, once you become a more natural, dynamic, present person, you'll find it comes naturally. That is if you're not a complete social outcast in which case you need to do some more self-work, with a therapist potentially.
Nathan Smith
thanks
Samuel Brown
Am social outcast, what is self work?
Jonathan Morris
Who is this beauty, sir
Gavin Ramirez
Nofap doesn't do shit.
Find something you're interested in and get involved in it. Even if its just a req bowling team or some shit. There's tons of people that join teams or clubs/activities that are alone, you won't be the only one.
When you are with someone (like your coworkers) just be friendly. Ask how their day is going, tell them some funny thing that happened to you. Anything to start a conversation
"Have you heard Logic's new album? Its awesome" "What's up man? Been up to anything cool lately?" "How'd your day going." "I saw this crazy movie last night."
Eventually you'll be friends with them and you'll be part of that badass coworker group. If not then take initiative, grab some people that you know don't hang out with other coworkers and ask them if they want to go bowling or hit up a karaoke bar, anything.
Jackson Parker
>whatsapp name
Download it and give them your phone number. They can't see if you have any other friends.
Adrian Johnson
This. Not touching your penis won't magically attract friends.
Joseph Brooks
If you join a team sports club you will almost guaranteed get bros. Most of them are chads so they are extroverted as fuck and love to learn new people
Jace Hall
let me introduce you to a good friend of mine, pic related
My quality of life has improved significantly after I've found this. Typically stack with caffeine and theanine.
Gabriel Russell
>tfw they invite you once >yout get drunk >you do coke for the first time >you rip a bong >you almost fuck that fat thic chick with the giant double dd's >you never get invited again Why does this happen to me? people alway's distance themselves from me, I genuinely believed everything was fixed for that blissful moment. It was best day of my life
>tell them some funny thing that happened to you nothing funny happens to me though
i installed it >tfw no Contacts or Friends to Invite
does it really work? any long term negative side effects? i've read it feels like you're drunk. when i'm drunk, i'm still the same person for the most part
Gavin Ortiz
bump
Landon Ramirez
>rugby Patrician choice. I'd recommend buying a ball and learning to spin when you pass. Have fun
Logan Ortiz
I'm going back to college and I'm the typical case of average looking skinny guy who's now starting to get gains. I'm thinking of NOT opening a facebook because I wouldn't have anything there since I hate social media, I figured having an empty facebook would be weirder than not having one?
Alexander Reed
>what do i even say if someone asks me for my WhatsApp name >WhatsApp name
Zachary Ortiz
that same thing happened to me.
Brandon Perry
Same thing happened to me multiple times in high school except I don't do drugs or drink. Glad to hear that wouldn't have changed anything, I think they can just tell we are different man, for example I'm not too bad looking and at the start of each semester I always get a couple of mires and a girl interested in me but then she realizes I'm autistic and loses interest.
Jackson Turner
It doesn't make you feel like you're drunk unless you overdo it. It makes you feel relaxed, removes anxiety.
As long as you don't abuse it, it works great and no sides.
Lincoln Brown
I don't have social media either. People think it's strange. I have a tinder which I guess can be considered social media but when a girl asks for your Facebook or instagram and you tell them you don't have that stupid shit it's infinitely harder to get them to agree to a date. I've managed to go on a bunch of tinder dates but it would be easier if I had an instagram of me doing cool shit. I'm turning 28 though and even tide is getting sketchy for me at this age. I look 20 though.
Angel King
Don't listen to this retard that shit can fuck you up.
David Harris
Feel free to share how
Brandon Rivera
its perfectly safe you retard
Angel Turner
>People think it's strange.
If anyone has a big issue with me not using it we probably wouldn't date anyway. I just say I cba to post things and prefer whatsapp for keeping in contact.
They're the strange ones obsessed with social media shite. Fuckin cookie cutter porn addicts.
Cooper Cooper
>when you squeeze a fresh log out your colon so hard you just gotta take a selfie afterwards in the same room
fucking millennials could you imagine the smell
Hudson Ward
lol...
;_;
Gavin Ortiz
>meme kys
Zachary Collins
this, lol
Connor Davis
I really want to try Tinder but from what I understand it requires a Facebook and I don't have any social media whatsoever.
Wat do?
Logan Rodriguez
How do I go about making a facebook profile? Is it too late, are young adults still using facebook or did they move on already?
I've been a NEET for five years but I've been working on my re-entry into society and before I jump into college again in a few months I want at least a facebook profile so I won't put myself at a complete disadvantage day one.
Also, do I just add people from highschool, etc? I used to be somewhat popular but then fell into the trap of WoW and from there on it was a slippery slope.
Justin Hernandez
you don't need a full fledged profile you mongoloids, just throw some pics up there, don't add anyone, it only uses FB for the photos and user id.
Nicholas Murphy
Yes, it's too late. You'll look like pathetic loser if you don't have at least 100 friends, and a history of posts going back to at least 2011.
You're better off not having it at that point, you'll earn respect for 'having the willpower to avoid Facebook "
Jordan Morris
If people honestly think not having social media makes you weird then they're not worth hanging out with in the first place.
An increasing trend among my friends is actually deleting facebook, but keeping the messenger aspect. Everyone can see facebook for the waste of time it is and deleting it shows you're going towards bettering yourself. If they ask why you don't have you could just say you used to have it but deleted it because it's a boring habit.
Brody Cruz
Get a commission sales job
Jayden Fisher
Reading could help make you more interesting.
Easton Cox
>rugby
Top choice. You'll quit or become a man, and if you stick with it hopefully make some great friends along the way. When I played lock in college the team would go for beers together after practice, good on you for choosing a man's sport.
Brandon Robinson
>always manage to piss people off and make people dislike me no matter how hard I try to not be autistic
all I want is people to like me
Connor Ward
You shouldn't want to impress other people, most of them are shit
You should want to better yourself, and in the process of doing that enjoy the benefits of people wanting to experience what you do with you
Wyatt Taylor
>Find something you like doing or are interested in
tfw 4chin is only thing i do and thats too much of a hassle because real life graphic sucks
Jonathan Torres
daily reminder if you have zero friend there must be a reason so you better embrace your fate than pathetic trying
Austin Morris
Rugby players are all the wannabes who were too soft to play football
Lucas Butler
fuck off with the youtube motivational speech autism wew
I just want to come across as likeable, but I have poor conversational skills and am pretty awkward, and that combined with coming from a posh area + still having a bit of an accent means I get quite a few people thinking I'm being snobbish or rude.
Nicholas Lewis
Mate, if you can't figure out this situation you are genuinley socially retarded,
If you meet anyone who genuinley cares that you have no social media is someone who you probbly wouldn't wantot be hanging about with anyway.
Just tell them you use a phone like every normal person.
Social media is retarded
Eli Lee
mother of quads I wanna make her legs touch her shoulders and fuck her like a madman
Carter Gutierrez
bumpi already have a full time job though
i do read, though not enough i think
;_;
Joseph Rogers
i'm in a similar situation. i think i'll have to treat social skills as any other skill & formally study it. comes natural to most people but not me. i picked up a few flirting tips online & have had some success.
also learn about other people's hobbies so you'll have something to talk about. even if you don't like sports watch the highlights of the popular team in your area
Tyler Edwards
I'm starting a new job in a couple months and I'm definitely going to start researching the local football team so I have something to talk about, I've had so many times where I've met normies and we've had literally no common interests, all my hobbies are way too niche and autistic to have conversations about.
Gavin Morgan
don't make a social media account until someone prompts you to:
>hey what's your facebook? oh i don't have one >why not? never really had the need, should i make one? >yea user! you can be my first friend, heh. *wink* >i'll be more than that *kiss*
Ayden Bennett
but i have had one, i just had 50 friends, and none of which i actually spoke to
i spent time creeping on people and envying their social lives, so i deleted it
should i pretend i never had one?
Levi Phillips
You were probably obnoxiously drunk and stoned and what you perceived as good social vibes were people putting on a front and getting the local autist to leave on a good note. You probably molested that thicc chick.
Dominic Russell
yes, delete them and start fresh. none of your current 50 "friends" will notice, i guarantee.
when you meet a real friend/girl who genuinely wants to be social with you, that's when you start using one of the social media shits. and that's when you network out, make friends with their friends and put something out on there at least few times a week.
Wyatt Taylor
> user why are you so rude > user why are you so standoffish > user how come you never speak > user can we hear you voice I can't comprehend why would anyone want to communicate or foster some sort of social life at work place, you wake up, turn of your brain, go to work, come back and do what you like with what time you have left. Why the fuck do people get involved in work drama, relationships, politics etc etc
Justin Hall
>teleports behind you >nothin' personell, kid!
Sebastian Johnson
> Tfw that day when they released the option to see statistic of who views, likes your posts lol. not point worrying, shes not gonna check > later that night > user why do you keep looking at all my posts and never say anything ?
Levi Lewis
The best way to make friends is to tell them to fuck off when they try to give you some advice. Maybe you should try doing what that user said, since whatever the fuck you're doing clearly isn't working for you
Cooper Perry
The graphics irl are great, but my render distance is fucked up so I had to install the glasses DLC
Lincoln Allen
Not fit related.
Tyler Rogers
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Owen Morales
>use to be popular >Friends asking to hang daily >Stopped drinking >Changed hobbies >Isolated myself intentionally >Turned autistic >Social anxiety now >Do nothing to change this
Leo Davis
Mental Health is still HEalth.
Colton Butler
Fuckkk she's prepping Chad's post sex meal
Michael Jenkins
We are all going to die alone user. Just be sure when you do that you can look back and say that you did do what you wanted to in life.
Parker Nguyen
>talk about things they saw on fucking snapchat is this really what normies talk about? disgusting. you're better off without them OP.
Ethan Bennett
My sister is an extrovert and knew hundreds of people throughout college I'm a halfway handsome social retard and she moved away so I can't just tag along anymore but now whenever I go out 9's and 10's come up and say "ermagerd you're ______'s brother that's so crazy! How is she!? What do you do!?" And fully give me ins but I fuck them up about 80% of the time I don't spaghetti or anything but they can tell I don't have much going on
Henry Young
>say that you did do what you wanted to in life. i already have regrets for not having friends
it is
Colton Cruz
who /friendlywithpeoplebuttheyneverinitiateconversations/ here?
Andrew Roberts
>the toilets in OPs pic are larger than my apartment.
Liam Ortiz
>does it really work? It does work, but you have to be careful with it. Never take it on consecutive days.
not that guy but it can cause withdrawal on par with benzos
Chase Johnson
Absolutely correct. Phenibut works, but you have to be disciplined and not overuse it.
Jace Diaz
Australian construction worker reporting My hobbies: >quantum/string theory >New Testament criticism >Philosophy >daughter's netball Wife asks why I don't hang out with workmates? I have like zero real friends. So depressed it's not funny.
Nathan Bennett
It's ok mate, I'm exactly the same. There's millions if us out there. Some people don't need "friends". You'll find a lot of normies have lots if "friends" purely for status
Mason Rivera
How tall are you?
Aiden Jenkins
I'm legit socially retarded and have no social media and everyone at work likes me and invites me to do stuff. I never go because I'm a hermit and they STILL like me.
All I did was show up and work hard. No one spoke to me at first but after a while they start to notice how much of a help I am at work and so they start to like me. I have negative bantz and at this point they actually enjoy my autism. Humans are extremely adaptable you don't have to be the funny cool guy to make friends, if you have positive qualities then people will start to like you and even start to like the qualities you think are a detriment.
No one will ever love you like work loves you.
Samuel Scott
>kys kys
Eli Bennett
>they invite you once >you get drunk >start talking too much and reveal just how much of a loser you are >you never get invited again
Aaron Martin
>I figured having an empty facebook would be weirder than not having one?
I figured the same and haven't made one.
Adam Richardson
Phenibut doesn't feel like it has a high risk of abuse, imo. It makes me so fucking sleepy towards the end of the day that it doesn't seem worth it at all to take it on a regular basis. I can't help nodding in and out of sleep even just 5 or 6 hours after dosing. Just take some when you really want to be social. It'll make you a BIG chatterbox, it's really surprising how different I am on it. 2 times a week is the recommended schedule. avoid taking it on 2 consecutive days and you'll be fine. theres no risk if you keep to those guidelines.
Isaac Moore
I'm 25 and I haven't had friends since I was around 13.
I kinda lost my friends in high school, and as a result didn't learn how to socialize with people my age, which carried over into college, so I didn't really have friends there either. My roommates would invite me to stuff, and I knew their friends, and they all seemed to like me, but after leaving school we have never talked once in three years so that's over
Then I moved back home and surprise, still no friends
I don't have many coworkers near my age but even still I don't even eat lunch with them, because I don't want it to be known that I am a shut-in loser. I'm sure they all probably know I am, but still.
I just finished listening to this book on audiobook and it felt like such a waste of time. Really repetitive and obvious, and I can't imagine being able to utilize the techniques on the fly
Daniel Nguyen
>be fat social retard outcast >lose weight >work on social skills >meet people and start hanging out with them >learn how to tell if girls like me >go through process of embarrassing myself and learn from mistakes >this normie safari goes by for a year >get bored >retreat back to hermit life with anime, games, and gay weeaboo hobbies >eventually become social retard again >put on like 10 lbs of fat from last bulk >still kv some people are born to be trash
Kayden Allen
Whats app is nothing conpared to normie book. I dont have anything other than normie book and a lot of people my age (26) dont either. If your younger you probably want instagram and facebook to look normall. Just dont read the shit normies bitch about and repost because god dam it makes /b/ look civilized
Kayden Bell
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Logan Morales
You can't "turn autistic" you fucking jumbo jew
Thomas Fisher
I'm pretty sure it's okay if you will stick to 1 gram 1-2 times per week, it's mostly a thing to show your potential, expose some of the stuff that is going on with you and help you socialize.
Basically, don't concentrate on highs and don't take naps during the day, utilize this shit to either figure yourself out or to help you to socialize.
For me it's like it sets my priorities straight: it takes all the superficial stuff that you usually think is important and says that yeah, all that stuff is cool and all but simply talking to people is more important even if you are not the ideal you. It's really interesting the first few times: stuff that you usually think is top of the world suddenly doesn't hold any emotional weight in your chest. It still makes sense logically but just doesn't hold as much pain in it.
As for op's question i dunno if it will help but here is my perspective: i don't find people all that interesting and it still holds me back but i believe if you turn your brain off and just vibe with them, basically just feel the flow of conversation and go with saying whatever without putting any thought into it, it can get you through initial phases of getting to know someone where most of the people you meet will stay. Basically you begin to learn stuff about people and share stuff about yourself when you already know that you are capable of having fun with that person.
Elijah Lopez
You dead shit, I have no desire for such inane things. When you become an ADULT, you actually with go out and do hobbies that mix you with other people who have voices and pulses.
Goddamn you're a dumbass.
Jayden Morales
bump
Nathaniel Green
Maybe if you're a moron with no discipline.
Josiah King
The WC there implies she's about to take a shit??
Ian Cox
my concern with phenibut is that it's not heavily researched, and could have unknown side effects. why would you not go see a doctor and get something that has been clinically tested
Joshua Thomas
it means she was at the gym and wanted to take a selfie in their bathroom
Brody Campbell
Ass + WC equals poop
Connor Wright
nah hes right
try thinking of it like this
you might be pretending to be a likable guy you saw in a movie, or from a weird mtv reality show year ago but it comes off weird to nearly everyone. So people either revert to automatic responses because they want the conversation to end or they avoid the interaction because NEARLY every1 in the world is lazy and "weird" usually means difficult and different
Josiah Robinson
can also vouch for phenibut, works wonders for anxiety
Jeremiah Clark
>not clinically studied if it was amazing, why wouldn't there be studies on it
Oliver Collins
At the risk of projecting, I feel many of them have hit that point of no return in their lives. They got a wife, a car, some kids and a house. That's 4 different anchors holding them down to do really anything else. You can't just up and say, "I'ma go do interesting thing x that'll require some money."
As a result, you just turn to your coworkers to fill in that need for social interaction. Some people understand that work stays at work and home stays at home, most don't