Social media = cancer; Video games = BASED

Teenagers playing videogames are already at rock bottom in terms of depression, no wonder there's no increase

barely. no one was bitching about old style forum, completely different structure than facebook, twitter etc

gf is a succubus who steals your time and money. if you break up you'll be alone
if you stay together you have to do boring shit with her instead of having fun with video games

Either way you lose.
How is that not depressing?

wow almost as if social media is designed to prey on human desires or something

Of course you'd lose hope from seeing retards online 24/7.

It's the same shit, it slightly gives you social contact and make people disregard real socialization.

That's the problem with the internet, it gives enough to satisfy, but not enough to be mentally healthy.

The Internet must be wiped out.

>escapism is good for depression, but seeing the (fake) success of real life people and being jelly isn't
gee, give this man a P H fucking D everyone

Because videogames are utter garbage too?
Nowadays it's more entertaining seeing videogames flop than playing them.

Hell, nowadays playing videogames feels closer to an unpaid job than anything with all of them having microtransactions shit and grinding.
This industry deserves to die.

consumerism is general

No, it's just Yea Forums has been lonely for so long that they now try to rationalize not doing what your body is programmed to do as something good.

Whores and virgins will kill themselves in their 40s if the cancer they will get form their unhealthy lifestyles doesn't finish them first.

Yea Forums is more like ancient wall graffiti than facebook

>we calculated a bunch of correlation coefficients and called it a day

Most """studies""" in a nutshell.

Yea Forums is social media except without being bombarded by people showing off the good things going on in their lives (and when they do, you know it's fucking bullshit).

Yes, back in 2006, not anymore.
50% of Yea Forums threads are Twitter screencaps, and every single board has completely offtopic threads of people posting shit that belongs in Facebook like
>wahh wahh, muh real life problems
>wahh wahh, my girlfriend broke up with me
Hell, most threads get derailed because of politics.

Yea Forums has become social media, all diferences it had were killed this decade.

I think boards like r9k and fit can deal great damage
a bunch of insecure people fueling each other's insecurities for (You)s

during the wild west days of social media it was BASED as hell. Back when you could literally say whatever you wanted and no one cared, sort of like Yea Forums. Now, it's retarded and I hate everything about it

No, instead it's people telling you that being a lonely neet is something good, much like fat feminists who insist they are beautiful.

Stop pretending this shithole is any different, most of your discussion is about people in social media.
>LOOK AT THIS LITERALLY WHO SAID ON TWITTER

Social media friends are not real friends.
They're buttons you press and send memes, not people you actually talk to and be in shit together, people you really know.

Well yeah, being reminded every day of achievements your friends are making that you have yet to do would make you constantly depressed. Easy solution is to stay off social media more often.

I've seen 300 comments about politics and immigration under a facebook post of a guy trying to sell a motorbike
boomers are not so different than zoomers after all

Agree. We are less connected as a society than ever before, despite what tech company CEO's say, technological advancement is not naturally a net good for humanity.

Are you implying millennials are somehow different, even though they started this entire "culture war" and trend of people who pretend to care about politics even though they don't do shit?

At least fit gives you the tools to work on yourself and as you lift you realize there’s more to life than the validation of other people who don’t do anything to improve themselves. R9k does not

So, how do you destroy the Internet?

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Maybe actually try playing a game or two from before you were born, zoomer? You could never play another game released after today and you’d still be set for life with the backlog that exists out there. I’ve genuinely had more fun returning to 8 and 16-bit games than I ever have with modern games.

Theyre detached from the real world an stuck in some human-induced nightmare

shitting on social media seems pretty old hat but. i have to admit i think the only right choice i made in life was avoiding it altogether. i've often wondered, i'm a shut-in fuckup with literally zero contacts in my life yet i'm not depressed, why? how? i think this might be it. by entirely eschewing social media in my desire for complete isolation i managed to emancipate myself from the brutal constraints of soulless web 2.0 modernity.

seems like being an antisocial neet has its upsides. cope harder, normoids. go pop another xanax.

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do you really have to listen to fit to get ripped?
most people on fit barely lift, it's also full of spergs who tried lifting for a month and then post incel threads because they don't have the willpower to go to the gym

I've played those more than enough.
Playing the same stuff over and over again not only isn't fun, but it ruins your memories of when you actually enjoyed it.

This, turns out seeing other people's "lives" and constantly comparing your own to the ideals on facebook and Twitter will depress the shit out of a lot of people.

Yea Forums is social media, yes. But for every person here claiming to be a 6'3 aryan god with a 11/10 gf and a 8 inch dick with a seven figure salary, theres like 10 most who are claiming to cry themselves to sleep every night on a bare mattress because they haven't had human contact in 10 years

You are completely missing the point, probably due to autism.

The reason social media cause depression is because of the constant pressure to appear successful and show it off to your friends and followers. This is due to the fact that social media is the "front page" of your life, with your real name and identity attached to it, and for today's zoomers the facade of success must be maintained at all costs.

Yea Forums is an anonymous forum, it is not social media and it does not cause the same issues whatsoever.

You are in Yea Forums, you are not away from social media.
Hell, half the catalog in all boards is Twitter screencaps.
And I wonder, at this point, how many fucking newfags in this place aren't mainly social media users, considering how nu4chan eats up EVERY SINGLE shitty fucking "meme" that pops in social media.
Seriously, it's absolutely embarassing seeing the amount of "What are some games where I..?" everytime some EPIC AS FUCK thing happens in Twitter.

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>they haven't had human contact in 10 years
Jesus I think I'm actually close to that number now that I think about it.

And yet people here behave just like that, trying to appear superior to others.
Hell, there are some here that shame others for trying to make it in life, or for having a girlfriend.

This place is just the other side of social media.
Yea Forums deserves to be shut down as much as Twitter.

I can bet my balls that the ``study`` was something like, lets ask people whit depression if they play videogames, is realy probable that a high % said that yes, that dosent mean that videogames cause depression, that means that people whit depression discover videogames as the only way to escape the world disconect and feel happy for once,
Is like saying that weelchairs cause people to become amputees, maybe videogames are the only way to cope whit that mental state.

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It causes me depression, that's a fact

Sorry, but i'm still not going to play videogames.
I will celebrate the demise of the industry, though, specially the demise of the indie market.

>NOOOOOOOO SOCIOLOGICAL HEURISTICS ARE WRONG!!!!! HUMAN STUDIES IS PSEUDOSCIENCE!!!!!

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but we are user retard

Yea Forums predates the term "social media" it started in the era of regular forums

>or for having a girlfriend.
3D id PD you fucking cancerous newfag
We need to delete all the boards except for Yea Forums

Only Yea Forums has this problem, if only our mods did theur fucking jobs and deleted twitter threads

You can definitely see a varying level of insanity in twitter users. People who have a small amount of tweets just talking about games and movies and stuff come off as pretty normal. People who average 40+ tweets a day stewing in rage over politics seem hopelessly lost to insanity.

And it's slowly morphed into that.
This is no longer a forum, everything bleeds together.
We have idiots spamming completely offtopic political threads, or threads related to television, or Twitter threads.

How is this any different from social media side from having a bigger proportion of social outcasts?
And sometimes I even doubt that.

Everywhere but Yea Forums has this problem.

Its completely different because anonymity
If you cant see it you are a fucking zoomer

Yea Forums is like that too on top of discussing only capeshit, netflix shows and black actors
literally twitter numales

>virtue signalling and acting like a faggot is fine when you're anonymous and doing it for (You)s
okay

can Yea Forums be considered anti social media?

Today the only difference that gives is that people can say nigger and that they larp as others, nothing more.

This is what people don't see, that Yea Forums is completely different now from what it was, and it's a complete and utter shithole that I wouldn't mind seeing shut down.

>claims to be detached from social media
>is a fucking frogposter, the one thing every social media user uses
I avoid social media yet i have friends. Just admit you are a loser, you have no high ground to stand, you really have nothing.

Yep you are a newfag zoomer

>gf/friends
Making a lot of assumptions right now

Its really not
Ive been here for 13 years and its the same as always
If you dont like it feel free to fuck off

Been here since 2006, doublenigger.

It's always been like that Yea Forums constantly leaked into other boards or even raided them in the old days

Then you are just retarded.

i literally admitted it multiple times in my post, seethe-kun. i swear you zoomers need to learn some self control: read a post from start to finish before replying, no matter how emotionally affected you may be. it's like getting your news from only reading headlines. i seriously hope you don't do that.

Fuck no, Yea Forums was never this obsessed with social media and politics.
This place is just hipster numales who think they are better than other numales.

>You're retarded for being here where I am
You're right, who would want to hang out with you? :^)

Agreed most don’t lift but those are the ones that don’t make it. Fit gives you the tools but it’s up to you to decide whether or not you want it bad enough. I personally wouldn’t have been able to dl 4 plate, bench 2, and ohp 1 plate (enough to lift most girls above my head) without the sticky

>human studies is speudoscience
It literally is.
It does not follow the scientific method so it's shit.

Fuck social media but you're really stretching to make this thread about video games and assuming that because one is bad all others are good, which is not always true.

Bideo games might still have serious issues as a social outlet. For example, most social video games place the players in an adversarial role towards one another. This could be a problem if games are the person's only form of socializing.

Also, fuck you I'm gonna reddit space all I want.

>Recent study shows that toy preference in children is based on their testosterone levels and not MUH CIS CULTURE
>IGNORED
Yep.

they use the scientific method
but using the scientific method doesn't mean the results will be sound

>Also, fuck you I'm gonna reddit space all I want.
Nah you won't because you're a little bitch

Of course, there's no reason to project a fake appearance of success here. No user has ever bragged about being a 6foot, 9 inch dick, 6 figure earning natural lifting prowess who bench pressed 3pl8 after a week of starting strength after all.

You are not smart. You said you have advantages at being a loser, im implyig you are just a delusional frogposter thinking he is smart.
>seethe-kun
>zoomer
>news analogy
A social media user alright.

Normies should probably spend at least 3-5 years on Yea Forums in order to build immunity to all the bullshit that comes from browsing social media sites. More kids here so the trolling hits you harder but less women around so it doesn't effect you on a psychological level as much.

you are mad as fuck for some reason and i'm trying to figure out why. are you by any chance depressed?

Why is it always the no-brainer studies that seem to get funded?
Social media is cancerous period.

What other methods are there that considered"sound" besides the scientific method?

A lot of gamers are using games as a form of escapism from failing in their social life. (Marche is still a villain that is an entirely different rant.)

I'm far from prescribing being a social normie. But clearly there are some emotional, educational, economical, and social drawbacks to gaming.

I am so disgusted with trends in gaming I've barely played any games now that I'm in my thirties. Everything is P2W, gacha, microtransaction, and lowest common denominator trash. I also have a problem with free to play games games like path of exile. It really felt like game development was focus on over price skins rather than developing in-game items with unique stat attributes. So what you got with this random attribute garbage that played so horribly.

I also don't have much free time so I don't have the time to master game and just be generally good at the game. So basically I like zero games, which has made me feel like the entire hobby has been a giant waste of time.

I now know why coaches are fat. They'll never be a young buck ever again, they can never seriously compete in the game. They'll never have the accolades or win trophys or get women attention. So there's a sad nostalgia in it. The football game it's wholly different for them.

Now big breasts need to pass an ethics committee to be in a videogame. The chances of you enjoying gaming when you are older is very slim. There is no telling how gaming will be in 15 years time. Steam might not even be around in 15 years. And sadly based on their latest games that might be a good thing........

So be very wearing I'm having gaming as any portion of your life.

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depression is a fucked up beast that not even the victims fully understand why they're depressed

unlike social media you can find and have conversations on Yea Forums and connect with other human beings.

Yea Forums is social media

>> ancient wall graffiti
Gaius and Aulus, bros for life

I've found them.
The other social misfits.

Its one of the banners.

unfortunately this.
i moved to smaller, slower boards for a few years when shit started going downhill but even now those boards arent safe from that shit.
I miss Yea Forums when newfags would get ass blasted and banned for posting shonen, saying they stream or asking for recommendations.
I miss when Yea Forums used to bro up and play shit together like Ace of Spades.
I miss when /ck/ had vertical recipes, comfy "food pics from Japan" threads and wasnt just int-pol baitposting and fast food shilling.
I miss old /out/ and /trv/.
I miss when Yea Forums wasnt just /soc/porn, WWYD, FB/IG fap, Left/Right, celebs and snapchat/kik threads

People have been saying this since the beginning of the decade. But the thing is, the majority of people don't care. It's gotten even worse since then because now people are making money and careers out of it, so now people are scrambling to become an influencer or something. I don't know if you look at Twitter, but whenever you see someone make a viral tweet, the person will plug whatever venture they have on the side (making t-shirts, music, modeling, hair products, etc), right underneath the OP. However, people typically don't give a fuck about that.
The social media sites themselves have to fail and screw over the users or else people will continue using them.

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Imagine letting 4chin ruin your enjoyment of games.

RE2, MHW, GOW, DMC 5 were all awesome. Stop being a depressed faggot.

I would assume they gave legit depression and not meme depression, but too many normalfags have le "depression" and also a gf that "le supports him", so I have big doubts on that.

>Go to social media and get bombarded by people acting like massive idiots
>Fire off a game and have fun
I wonder which one is more depressing.

Doesn't surprise me and anyone without an inflated ego could have deduced this.

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Welcome to modern science.
Meanwhile, a different study exists with the same rigourosity of this one that says the complete opposite thing.

If Yea Forums has taught me anything its the ephemeral nature of things and the sheer destructive power of the uncaring masses.
In its prime, Yea Forums was something special, a sanctum for misfits and those with peculiar interests with its own self made culture and traditions. But time marched on, and unfortunately, the very things that made the people who came here outsides became 'trendy' and 'cool' in the mainstream. 'Geek' becoming 'chic' slowly saw the corruption of what Yea Forums was into what it is now. All the old guard gradually found themselves out numbered by 'normies' and alienated from their own boards.

The boards are filled with those who have never had to search for things they enjoy, with those who have never had to learn to build a community or learn the nuances of a culture that wasn't handed to them.

Its sad really, but that's life.

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Yes. Yea Forums was bad back then but it was a lot worse now, but one thing I did miss from old Yea Forums was that Yea Forums actually played video games. I remember threads where a couple of anons would play a game, and post screenshots of their journey along the way. One user was playing Baldur's Gate 2 using Angelina Jolie's BG2 styled portrait playing a berserker and he would post screenshots of all the encounters throughout the game with commentary from beginning to end over a period of a month or two. We don't get shit like that anymore and even if someone tried it would probably be deleted. Fuck this place.

Those people went to become streamers and youtubers. A lot less of a hassle to just record your game than take screenshots every now and then.

Yea Forums used to have some semblance of community, not anymore.

This, only time I even see anything close to social media it's here, for whatever dumb fucking reason.

We two dear men, friends forever, were here

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I feel this is true for OC in general, not just on Yea Forums. Drawfags/artists and the like have probably moved onto other places these days. Well, not all of them as there's a lot of people willing to draw, but it's definitely possible that it took a hit.

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It functions the same whether anons want to admit it or not. Somehow even with complete anonymity, the cult behavior and the peer pressure and the one-upmanship and the insecurity all still exists.

This. One cannot escape basic human nature so easily.

The first step is becoming aware of it.

OH NO NO NO BROS OUR TWITTER SCREENCAP THREADS

Maybe they can think about finally shutting social media down, it's been cancer since its inception.

Their legendary bromance has endured for thousands of years to be in the mind of humankind today. Two guys having fun vandalizing walls after some drinks and hundreds of generations later we remember their names.

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>there are some here that shame others for trying to make it in life, or for having a girlfriend.
>some
LOL

date a junkie and you will understand

I prefer the literal shitposting they did. Some things never change.

You are a weak person if you feel pressured by an anonymous post. You can act like two completely different people in seperate threads and no-one would know. What the fuck is there to be pressured about

I can only hope to be 1% of the bros that they must have been with my best bud

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>social media
>friends
I come on here to vent my anger about shit that in all reality has no bearing on how I live my life but makes me extremely upset regardless.

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Unless you shut your brain off completely and turn into an animal, seeing something enough times will affect you no matter what. The only difference is how many times you need to see it.

this >they aren't in the slightest, they don't care about you as a human being and will quickly drop you even if you've been friends for years. thats why a lot of the time long distance relationships never work. all you see is a screen it's easy to disassociate that it's a real person on the other end

This fucker gets it. Yea Forums is a place to say what you normally wouldn't.

Hopefully the coming generations will be numb to it. But it's likely that our balls are just in a vice and it's only downhill from here.

>browsing the neverending highlight reel of random people on the internet and constantly unfavorably comparing yourself to others has worse effect on your mental health than pure dopamine boosting
who would've thought

Changing due to pressure of literal text is two different things. Doesn't mean you can't agree with some things being said

I'm not talking about myself.

SCREAM INTO THE VOID UNTILL MY SOUL IS FULFILLED

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Arent you? Why would you feel like you need to state this fact? I don't know you and I never will. You just contradicted yourself posting that sentence

>How is this any different from social media
Because when the thread ends, everything you and anyone else said is gone. Also, you can participate in the same thread without giving up the fact that you are actually two different people.
Name/tripfags aside of course, then again I use a userscript that removes names and trips

When I have a child, I'm banning social media from them, they will learn about the world the same way I did, by playing with toys and watching old cartoon and cartoon movies that I used to watch on the computer. Fuck social media, I will also put up a playground so my kids can play outside along with buy them video games, not phone games.

The only things that remain are whatever pictures people make that are posted in there, which people save. Art is special.

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You have to find someone you like being around enough that it makes those obligations enjoyable to do with them, even if it means cutting away from games. Doing the most mundane shit with my wife is fun.

You're affected by posts here. Don't lie. Either that, or you're a newfag, or just underage. You are the company you keep, you might not be affected most of the time but eventually the shitty, insecure attitudes will rub off on you unless you're literally a psychopath.

I'll just post this bait here....
reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/93yibc/whats_the_worst_ways_in_which_youve_seen_social/

Daily reminder that Yea Forums is social media.

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video games cause bitch tits

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forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2018/03/20/social-media-may-be-more-psychologically-harmful-to-girls-than-boys/#5443d8737e35

Seems about the same since it's turning boys into fake girls.

a gf and friends don't give you meaning or purpose in life.
Well, they can. But they aren't guaranteed to.

>It’s no secret that social media isn’t great for mental health—studies have shown it again and again, and some of the developers of social media have sounded warnings about the addictiveness of certain features. Now, to add to the growing body of evidence on how it affects mental health, a new study finds a link between social media use in childhood and poorer psychological well-being in adolescence. And not surprisingly, it’s stronger for girls than boys.

>no-one would know
>he doesn't know

Everyone is affected by everything, but letting it dictate your life choices or opinions is folly. If I read something some retard says on here and chuckle, yes, it affected me, I was amused. But don't pretend that you don't have to be a special kind of retard to let Yea Forums opinions "ruin videogames for you".

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>Of course you'd lose hope from seeing retards online 24/7.
I laughed but it's legitimately true.

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wow

it's almost like you should stop caring about the opinions of women and minorities and then go on to live your own goddamned life, huh

Best post in this thread.

It's hardly about losing hope, it's more about watching retards be more successful than you.

>Yea Forums is an anonymous forum, it is not social media and it does not cause the same issues whatsoever.
This. Nobody at work/school/personal life knows who I am on Yea Forums.

GAMERS = RISEN

>let Yea Forums opinions "ruin videogames for you"
Sadly plenty of people here let that happen. There are lots of likeminded people here too though that have fantastic taste in my favs like Wonderful 101

rip blue checks

sure whatever you say ted

You're a good person, user.

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Why is anyone surprised? Social media is just middle/highschool 2.0 for +18 year olds. By default the entire scene is cancerous and extremely prone to causing depression, anger, isolation and other unproductive emotions.

The fact a sizable chunk of the adult population bought into this shit only highlights how perpetually fucked society is. Seriously why does anyone want to repeat the mental retardation that was school adolescence?

When are we going on our trip bill?

the only time it does is when i try to be genuine with my opinions or posts. but i'm also insecure and will doubt myself when anons get hostile. yet it doesn't happen when I shitpost or things like that, it's strange

False sense dosen't exist

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Next thursday with alice and john. be sure to show up this time ted and to not sleep in

I'll get the phone booth ready.

source?

Station!

No shit... i play video games because every now and then its nice to have a challenge i can actually win.

please do
-sincerely, bill

that's the whole image

Because it's a brain problem and not a "me sad :( cuz lonely" situation
It's like saying how can you be a scizo but you can hear voices from actual people. nigger their brain is broken.

Yea Forums is social media without all the baggage that usually comes with it

>that often leads to people realizing how little anyone cares about them existing because they're not attractive females or famous.
Colorful gossip magazines were blamed for having this exact effects on teenage girls decades ago. The difference is that social media makes this personal and you see how much people seem care about other people you know, but not you

Don’t forget that you only get to see the shit that people post about themselves. You’d be hard pressed to find someone divulging serious personal problems (who aren’t just doing so for attention)

The problem with social media is that it is replacing actual socializing. Our generation is more social than any other generation. What we are missing is not the talking but the other senses of socialization; touch l, sight etc.

You can’t get a hug from someone online, you can’t see someone’s smile when they laugh at your joke, you can’t read their hand gestures when they speak. These are all ingrained into our heads and needed. Without them it’s just as if we weren’t talking at all which leads to depression.

On top of that social media is designed to keep you clicking like a mindless sheep so they can maximize ad revenue.

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Because men were not designed to have "gf/friends". They were designed to form deep brotherhoods and to have wives/concubines who would only tend to the house/cooking, etc. Men are designed to expand and dominate, the current culture of modernity mixed in with hyper-capitalism is the problem, it has no real value or virtue and only treats people as a monetary system where everyone only sees in you something to be used or extract a form of money.

Right, the fact that you're mostly only shown the good stuff doesn't help. You create yourself a perfect mental image of a happy life everyone else leads that you literally can't compare yourself to unless you're at the top of the world.

I have come to the conclusion that the internet is good for either work or research/something to get knowledgeable in a certain field. Anything else is pointless. There is no better satisfaction than doing things in the real world, you touching and changing yourself/those around you based on your actions, achieving something tangible will always beat achievement something virtual.

How can Yea Forums be social media? There's nothing social or media about it. ¯\(°_o)/¯

That's part of it, but even without the impersonal factor, social media is just fucked

>constant outrage bait
>machine learning algos controlling what you see, trying to keep you as addicted as possible
>everything you say preserved on the public record forever

It just goes on and on. I have no idea how anyone steeped in this shit could ever be mentally stable

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Isn't this a catch-22. Instead of being depressed you could actually go work and achieve the lifestyle that you want to achieve, but ask yourself this, are you actually doing it for yourself, or because you want to show off and be accepted by people who will never truly really accept you. They only do so temporarily because of what you can do for them. This is the heart of the matter of everything. People are so insecure these days that the thought of doing something for oneself would cause great anxiety. Stop being a coward and go forth.

There's porn

It is standard policy for sites to still record deleted post? Mod deleted or user deleted?

Yea Forums is Social media.
Yea Forums: Source of all your pain.

Lol cant divert people from the propaganda and consumerism stream

This is the worst Quentin comic I've ever seen.

It's antisocial media

>The reason social media cause depression is because of the constant pressure to appear successful and show it off to your friends and followers. This is due to the fact that social media is the "front page" of your life, with your real name and identity attached to it, and for today's zoomers the facade of success must be maintained at all costs.
Not gonna lie, this sounds far more autistic and stupid than jacking off to anime tits.

kek

>implications of high levels of ree

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>Stealth incel thread

I like it

That's why every man doing social media has become a soiboi

Sourcing is …

Except it isn't

I have no fucking clue who any of you cunts are, nothing you say is reliable or even truthful, one second you could claim you're some 6'3 8 inch dick millionaire and the next be some neet crying that he gets no girls.

The problem with social media becomes apparent the moment you use it, people only post the best bits of their lives, and its depressing to see some persons endless stream of parties, events, social gatherings, gfs/bfs, holidays, ect. You see yourself as unsuccessful or not doing as much as them. You either compensate by trying to flood your social media platforms with content or you just do nothing, both make you feel worse. It would take me 2 seconds to find someone with a better job, or a better gf, or who looks better, or did more. Social media is a giant fuck you to having any sense of accomplishment in life because you can always find someone with something better than whatever you have.

You dont get any of that on Yea Forums, I can come into Yea Forums, post dumb as fuck opinions, call everyone a fag when I get proven wrong and walk away pretending I won the argument. Yea Forums is the perfect catharsis for anyone who doesn't give a fuck, and yes I know that makes no sense at all and guess what im right anyway you absolutely retarded autistic cunt.

Also you're all pretty cool people, dont change Yea Forums.

It's also the truest

except society in general has this antisocial attitude these days, people are more quiet and reserved and not a fan of small talk. I found that older people will chat just about anything it's usually the younger demo that doesn't. I would say it's around the 20's-30's range maybe even a little higher

Social media sites will keep everything forever. Even posts that you started typing and then deleted, at least this was true for FB.

Deleting your posts will at least hide them from others, so long as the eye of the public didn't already focus on you.

It is, even though Yea Forums is bad for you, normie social media is even worse. Even the worst parts of Yea Forums are actually second-hand contaminants from Twitter etc.

Maybe, but it's seriously in need of a cleanup, proper flow and styling, it's an abomination to look at.

Quentin at least knew how to panel his shit semi-decently.

What should one do instead of wasting time on social media? How can one use one's time well?

>dont change Yea Forums.
A few years late to be saying that

eat, sleep, work.or if you're a neet, eat, sleep. Yea Forums, video games. there is not much to do in the world like social media has you believe

Based and redpilled.

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If Yea Forums didn't exist, /pol/ wouldn't have existed and Trump wouldn't have gotten elected. Think about that for a moment.

Yea Forums was always shit

theres just more of it now

Jack off?

Video games and anime keep me happy. I tried the "be a normalfag" thing the first few years of high school and all it gave me was anxiety about if I was normal enough. Gave up and I've been content with my life following things I like and shitposting on here.

Social media, similar to the news, has to be negative or outrageous for people to care. People are more likely to act strongly towards these things, so it gets more interaction than say, posts or stories that say everything is fine. But unlike the news, social media is a constant unfiltered downpour of negativity and outrage, who wouldn't get depressed constantly seeing that? Why do you think so many people on Yea Forums are always so miserable?

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Trump won because the democrats refuse to admit that there are average joe Americans who are struggling.

>Those twitter accounts that have tweeted 10k times
>Nobody ever retweets their posts, maybe one or two people follow him like friends or family

How do they do it? This kind of shit keeps me up at night

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I have no fucking idea, those people freak me out
They might as well be aliens, mimicking human behavior

I have no sympathy for normalfag social media induced"depression", I have no friends, every day is work, games, anime, and sleep and I'm perfectly fine.

>Video games and anime keep me happy.
Eventually these will no longer work.

Average Joe Americans who are struggling are pretty dumb to vote for someone who will do nothing for them but give them a 20 dollar tax cut

Yes, they are, and? Republicans say they will help, Democrats dont. Even if both do nothing republicans are still ironically doing more, at least they pretend to care.

Medicare for all would help :^)

How long are we talking?

Not that user but I'm almost 30 and I still enjoy anime and vidya a lot.

Which would involve increasing taxes, and since Americans think all taxes are evil and bad thats not going to happen. And they sure as hell wont tax the top 10% since the Democratic leaders are the top 10%.

What is the actual research?
Why are you bringing shitty laymen opinions to a image board for srs g4mers?

Never show NEETS, who have hours of free time, anything less than the report itself. Not what some fucking clickbait faggot wrote to keep her job another of couple weeks.

>play more games play less Yea Forums
B A S E D

I'd say age 35 That's how old I am

Social media is a trap because people will broadcast their thoughts in a way that might be vaguely condemning or punishing towards casual or harmless behavior.

If not that, it's people chasing endorphins or a some kind of high horse. I swear seeing shit like "share if you care" or "SAY AMEN OR THIS 6 YEAR OLD POST OF A GIRL WITH CANCER WON'T GET BETTER" gets annoying when you see it 500 times but it pales in comparison to family and friends pretending they have picturesque lives that are better than they actually are.

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Because depression is a mental illness. It doesn't matter how successful you are. That's why there are a number of rich people who commit suicide. I can tell you from personal experience that getting a gf doesn't magically fix your life or mental state. As a matter of fact, it can make it worse.

Go back to /pol/ you mongoloids

>And they sure as hell wont tax the top 10% since the Democratic leaders are the top 10%.
By that logic there would be no taxes on the top 10%. And don't tell me Republicans are the ones who are for taxing the top 10%

No amount of sex or companionship will ever change that I will never achieve any of the things I wanted to in life through no fault of my own.

Are you retarded?

Wait a sec
Is this why Yea Forums hates video games?

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>

People I know with gf/friends are usually way more depressed and stressed out than I am. They're usually the type that drinks and smokes weed every single day, too.

That's a feel that never stops hurting.
Except that I also haven't had sex in a decade and have no friends...

Im not /pol/ im just rational. Explain how you pay for medicare without money. In case you didnt notice America is in increasing amounts of debt and cant afford a medicare system like Australia/Scandinavian countries. Its a bit more expensive putting up medicare for 300m vs 25m people.

No thats just your stupid logic. The tax brackets have been shrinking in America for a long time, there used to be a 70% bracket. Neither side wants to increases taxes because Americas capitalism has gone full retard.

It's social because you talk and engage with people even though you don't really know who they are, and there's media being shared between everyone. It's an imageboard after all.
It's a little different from the average social media site because it doesn't promote engagement through Like buttons and idenities/personalities. The allure of Yea Forums is that it's anonymous, and you don't gain nor lose anything by posting whatever your thoughts are. Even though there's a ton of shitposting here, you're more likely to get a genuine opinion from an user rather than a filtered opinion that doesn't have to adhere to a reputation or expectation of sorts by the public based on how much they agree with said opinion.
The problem with social media is that they see someone post an opinion with a lot of internet points so they treat it as fact.

Ready for the big plot twist? Yea Forums is social media.

Gee who woulda thunk

If you actually have things you want to do in life you're one step ahead of many of us who just have no desires at all and feel totally empty. Is there anything you can do to slowly build towards them in a more comfortable manner? Or is it just already too late?

30+
It gets bad, sometimes you'll come back for a season and watch something interesting but everything is shit and you realize your hobbies are for children.

>And yet people here behave just like that, trying to appear superior to others.

Because everyone is low-key aware of sylometry and weaponized vindictive autism

welcome to the mouse utopia fuckers

Affected and pressured into feeling something are two big different things brainlet

>Twitter meme
Invalidated argument

People do it on the daily and do not get called out on it on a personal level

Social media is normalized to the point it's no longer competition to traditional media, in fact all or most web media and even most TV and print would like nothing more than to have Zuckerberg's babies and get all the clicks. Or at least they have to pretend to in order to not get crushed. Or that's what they seem to think at least.
Personally I avoid like the plague any site that has a Like-buton, encourages me to like share subscribe etc. and most of all has a FB-login option, or I use a proxy or archive to access anything infected with FB if I have to. Even the BBC news site is mostly dead to me since they became integrated with FB, which is for the best anyway since newspaper sites are somewhat better than 24-hour news media.

Because you are putting personal value on the former and not the later. Nothing strange about it

I don't know user, why don't you try and find out?

thought I was depressed but realized I was just hungry lol

It's not in the same sense because you don't have to post pictures of yourself and the only reason why anyone compares lives is intentionally to shame and one-up rather than pretending you're being casual and sharing out of false humility.

Everything's more to the point here and blows off steam rather than pretend to be a big success.

>the cult behavior and the peer pressure and the one-upmanship and the insecurity all still exists.
There's still groupthink, but it's not the product of peer pressure. If someone conforms to a stupid argument made on Yea Forums, it's either because they found it persuasive or because it 'sounded about right.'
If people conform to a stupid opinion on other websites, it's often because people want to maintain their reputation, even if it's only the reputation of their pseudonym.

The dynamics of anonymous conversations are obviously different even if there are some superficial similarities. Everyone who is a regular poster on this site is able to recognize that.
Everyone's so comfortable posting their weird fucked up stories from their youth or their weird edgy political or social opinions because they don't have to worry about people connecting their posts to their identity.

No one will read this pic related, but anyone who does will get rewarded with a glimpse into the future written in 1994 by someone who had the foresight and intelligence to capture the shifting zeitgeist the internet was about to unleash on a new era. Sadly she passed not long after, but much of it rings even more true today than it did back then.

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>social media
>actual friends
Pick one

The difference is that with anonymity in the end nothing we post here really matters. I could say some absolutely retarded shit and look like a drooling idiot, but that doesn't follow me to another thread, or even the same thread if you choose to ignore those posts responding to you

>And yet people here behave just like that, trying to appear superior to others.
Except there exists a fundamental disconnect between you and your posts that does not exist on social media, and that is the very key difference.
On Yea Forums, I can say I'm a 7" tall 9% bf uberchad who benches 5pl8s for reps, has a 13" gorilla dick, and makes 300k starting any job I want with my math degree. Or anything else I want, nobody knows who I am or what I've done, either on here or IRL. Nothing said or done here need actually effect me unless I let it, it's not said by or to me, it's said to by and to anonymous.

On social media, it IS me. There is no disconnect. Everyone knows who I am and what I said and have done, that's the whole point.
You could argue some forums are akin to social media, but certainly not anonymous ones

Interested on the News 1290 bit, do you know of an archive?
Didn't find it immediately, will probably try a deeper dig later

I read it. Interesting, though not as on point in predicting the social media disaster as the MGS2 monologue.

Yeah having friends makes it a lot harder to take their "depression" seriously. Having gf/woman however and still being depressed is no surprise, considering modern females. I mean, having to put up with a constantly lying, cheating, narcissistic, spoiled and entitled child doesn't help with depression.

Sure, maybe they're awesome. But out of all those games only MHW can be played indefinitely. If one has platinum'd the other games, all that left is empty feeling.

Yea Forums is social media-lite.
It's basically social media in the same way that BBSes and Usenet servers were social media.
Typically, when we talk about social media, we refer to stuff like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and nu-Youtube.

Anyway, I'm thinking of starting a movement to eliminate smartphones and social media. It's been about a decade of cancer, and it's time people stood up and put an end to it.
I was thinking of giving it a name like the New Flesh Movement (in reference to the film Videodrome). People NEED to take a stand on this one.
Evil trumphs when good men do nothing.

I got a movement too.

It's called "moderation"

Not good enough. Anything smartphones can do other devices can do better. The only purpose the smartphone serves is to zombify the masses and make them a bunch of phonedrones who can't even carry a conversation or socialize in person at all.
It's a money-making tool that has ruined society, and we need to put an end to it.

Playing regularly with other people online is pretty hard when you all got a full time job and other hobbies as well.
Barely play with my old online buddies anymore because of that.

But that's retarded. Smartphones aren't a problem, social media is. Smartphones have great legitimate uses and social media exploded into the cancer that it is way before smartphones got big.

They're computers in your phone. That's literally it.

The problem isn't the device, it's that people have become too lazy to be entertaining themselves and have become vapid to the point where YouTube makes the conversation for them.

>The only purpose the smartphone serves is to zombify the masses and make them a bunch of phonedrones who can't even carry a conversation or socialize in person at all.
>It's a money-making tool that has ruined society, and we need to put an end to it.

People said the same thing about PCs, and TV. Smartphones are a tool of efficiency and convenience. They no more "zombify the masses" than all other technology with a screen does.

Pretty much everything smartphones can do was already available by better machines.
For example, Nokia cell phones had phone calls and texting. Walkmans, iPods, and MP3 Players had music. Gameboys had video games. And of course, the Internet was on home computers, which USED to be stationary.
In the olden days, the Internet wasn't something you just took with you. It was something that you used at home or at work. And it was better that way.

All the problems you're talking about aren't because of smartphones, they're because of the internet, and as long as the internet exists so will said problems. It's the internet you want to get rid of.

>In the olden days, the Internet wasn't something you just took with you. It was something that you used at home or at work. And it was better that way.

I'm guessing you've never had a job. Otherwise I can only guess you're a masochist.

My family has been running a retail/delivery business for the last 30 years and smartphones are the best thing that ever happened to it.

No. It isn't.
The Internet existed in the 90s and 2000s, but because it was much less centralized and it was something you only used in certain places and it was seen as a more "nerdy" thing, it was much better than today.
Remember Newgrounds? Remember Something Awful? Remember Jibjab? Hell, even Yea Forums is a relic of Web 1.0. No one complained about those; they were an integral part of late 90s/2000s culture.
Only once smartphones (and social media) opened the floodgates for the bottom rungs of society to have as much of a voice as people who are actually smart did the Internet become the way it is.

>having 30 different separate devices to do individual tasks that are limited to an anchored space is SO MUCH BETTER than one device that can do it all from anywhere

Are you retarded?

Exactly. It's not smartphones that are the problem, it's the internet being a mainstream tool used by everyone that's the problem, but that's the world we live in now and it's never going to go away. Social media was around before smartphones were, and if you got rid of smartphones it will still be around.

Yeah, they are. You know why? Because there's a time and a place for certain things. And in case you didn't notice, I made sure to only mention mobile things (cell phones, Walkmans, Gameboys). Meaning you could use them in the fucking woods. And since they didn't have wi-fi, you LITERALLY could use them in the fucking woods.

People can't be trusted to have a machine that can distract them at all times. In a utopia, we would have complete control over every situation, but we don't live in a utopia, so right now we gotta make sure people get the most out of life.

>In the olden days, the Internet wasn't something you just took with you. It was something that you used at home or at work. And it was better that way.

t. unemployed neet

By having a fat gf and friends

>People can't be trusted to have a machine that can distract them at all times.

lol but you're here to show us the way right Jesus?

Get fucked. Smartphones are here to stay and there's nothing you can do about it.

>In the olden days, the Internet wasn't something you just took with you.

Mobile internet has been a thing since the early 90s. You're a moron.

If you’re dating a junkie you’re depressed because you don’t get the validation of dating a sober person, you’re just taking advantage of their sorry state like fucking a drunk person. People don’t want to just fuck chad’s gf, they want to be chad. Just look at shmorky, he was able to date way out of his league by picking up a schizo

having a gf is a scam, they take your money and maybe fuck you whilst fucking another taller dude with a bigger dick

>never had any social media account
>was never depressed even though a number of people in my extended family were and are
huh, neat

If you're talking about laptops, those are much more cumbersome to carry around than a phone, which discouraged people from bringing them fucking everywhere.

Thats a fucking good Think people is going to leave internet slowly

The face you put out online is not the real you, it's an identity to upkeep social status, and this sentence came straight from my normalfag coworker with a gf, who suffers of some degree of depression and crippling semi-regular panic attacks, while posting wacky and "fun" pics to his instagram to rack in likes from his "friends". What I'm trying to say is that everyone else is very good at keeping the facade up, either by sheer force of will or simple ignorance

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I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding or refusal to address what depression actually is that's making it harder for people to understand why social media is fucking young kids and adults hard. This is mostly opinion but I think Depression is the body's reaction to hopeless circumstances; an advanced form of learned helplessness where the body tells you to conserve as much energy as possible because only life or death situations actually matter. Social media has created a quantification of social status, where every kid can see exactly what they're "worth", both to their same-sex peers and the opposite sex, in the form of likes, number of friends, blah blah blah. It allows people to more easily facilitate cliques through online communication with almost no chance of being overheard, and for the more attractive people it serves as a way for them to hook up with acquaintances , where before you were limited to your immediate area and close friends.

And unlike in the past people learn really fucking quickly that you can't really change your social status, because it's largely based on things you can't change. So they retreat inside themselves, stop wanting to work, and end up playing video games as a tangentially related result since it's one of the best solitary hobbies.

i think the fluoride in the water and the homo hormones in the meat are probably causing depression desu

If you were pressured into something you must have been affected enough to do it.
You're retarded.

There are multiple junctures to that conclusion, and from it.

In a perfect word social media faggots do not exsist but this is not the perfect world.

Holy shit how?

That's why I only care about social media if it means following the news or just shitposting.

Getting your validation from a bunch of psychopaths don't sound healthy.

I saw a study that demonstrated a strong correlation between heavy social media use and mental disorder and unpleasant behavior.

Social media truly is cancer.

Not him but it's hard science that people don't like interacting with ugly people. I'd easily hit that if I didn't like with my parents and have a whole one friend that invites me out do anything 3 times a year.

The sad part is that the vast majority of people on this rock are struggling really hard to get imaginary validation through social media

Trump won because Putin helped him because Hillary is an actual god damn jewish molochi cultist and fucked a lot of plans for them for at least 6 more years

Is any forum or online community considered "social media?"

I mean I can see how shit like Twitter and Facebook can be depressing; everyone puts on a show to make it seem like they are happy, successful, and have many friends when in reality things aren't probably that peachy. That's a lot different than something like Yea Forums or reddit though.

How does one get rid of social media realistically? How do you weed out the cancer?

Delete it, get the phone numbers of people who's lives you give a shit about.

Can't fucking wait to see just how fucked up newer generations will become in like 20 or 30 years, shit is gonna get INSANE

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I don't know if Yea Forums fits the definition. I feel so much more comfortable here than I ever would on a popular website, and that's because (as many people have already stated) you can be honest here. I can call Uncharted movie trash without a plethora of people attacking my profile and Doxxing me because of wrongthink. Nobody looks at my tweets and subscribers and upvotes and judges me on those. My voice is as important as everyone else's.

Not him but its wasn't hard to find: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/icd.2064
Hey bro, there is so much bullcrap posted here to start flamewars or intentionally spread misinformation so if you assert something like this you should source it otherwise people rightfully identify you are a mong.

No. Social media is characterized by the focus on people's profiles and what non-anonymous individuals post about themselves. Social media is about people. On Yea Forums we talk about video games and trump and whatever else, we don't typically talk about what John McButtfuck ate for dinner today and his entire internet history.

Unfortunately The Well has a paywall subscription model afaik, it predates the internet but somehow survived it and seems to still be in use today though. However like the article describes, much of what went on there and about those incidents were literally scrubbed from the archives.
You are an awesome person and will go places if you're not there already user. MGS is good but here I prefer the firsthand irl experience of someone who lived during a time when these things and the dominance of sign value and investing virtual personas with all your energy and personality for the economic benefit of a corporation who doesn't care about you one bit weren't normalized to the point they are today.

Desperate nerds who settle with bitchy uggos thinking that having any gf is better than none.

It's usually sheltered people who grasp theories like this.

I see posters putting forward their personality and who they are instead of their ideas on every board and in every thread. Even when trying to make a point these posts involve a bit about who the poster is in his life. Look for it and you will see anons renounce anonymity in their posts.

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>tfw haven't participated in social media in more than 10 years and get strange looks when I respond "no" to "do you have an instagram"

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Anyone with a brain would know this has been the case since the beginning

Although you aren't wrong, do not confuse this with somebody simply sharing an idea that comes from their life; which may be a valid concept to share that does not relate to self absorbed attention seeking.

Mostly nonsense. The author seems to be an alien who doesn't understand humans and studies their behavior through a telescope.

Are normalfags in real life even worth being around?

>GOW
that's a movie not a game

guys? no. most guys in the 18-30 range are braindead and only care about marvel, disney, ps4 movies,shovelware on the switch, or extremist politics. girls in that range are equally retarded, but at least theres a chance at pussy. whatever you like. anime, gym, shooting, biking, vidya. youre best off finding a club of autists dedicated to that thing if you want to feel a sense of brotherhood. joe normie is just a taxpayer and cattle for corporations to exploit.

have sex

It's too late, user.

>Social media is just middle/highschool 2.0 for +18 year olds
This... Makes a crazy amount of sense. Except unlike high school all you learn is how to be a bigger prick.

I don't think this is necessarily true. Unless a person truly dedicates a shameful amount of time trying to build an online persona for themselves, online forums aren't the same as "social media." Anonymity detaches you from the social pressures involved in maintaining your actual identity in real life. Although forums can shame you and make you feel worthless, I don't think it can affect your mental state quite as tangibly as seeing your actual, real life persona shamed and humiliated on a website where you are trying your represent yourself publicly.

TL;DR - If Yea Forums makes you feel worthless, then you'd be wise to stay the fuck off of more popular social media.

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this was never a forum you stupid faggot its an imageboard, and if you cant see how this is fundamentally different from soc media they you are too retarded to have discourse with

Hardly, I'll admit the author was overly verbose and some of the anecdote is lost with the time gap. She may have had the 'tism too we'll probably never know at this point, but the essay can be condensed into an early realization of "you are the product", "the platform is in control, not you", "hugboxes/echo chambers", "glow in the dark cia niggers", """feminism""", and so on

>feel powerless regularly
>find a way to make yourself feel powerful by pretending you have a badass life

It doesn't surprise me one goddamn bit, desu. Most boomers and actually successful people use it mainly to keep contact with others. It's just younger, unproductive people aged < 35 years or so who get butthurt over the nonsense they see online.

have you ever heard manipulative relationships
surprisingly more common than you think
>pity partner into dating you
>threaten to suicide/etc if they leave you
happens all the time trust me

tl;dr
>sounds like fags to me
exactly

Oh yeah definitively. Had a roommate years ago with a bitch like that. Granted he was kind of an asshole himself but the cunt did shit like threatening suicide and locking herself in the bathroom so he had to kick in the door, constantly made drama and argued about everything.

this is exactly why i deleted all my social media accounts last week
i was becoming so disheartened being constantly reminded that everyone i grew up with is getting married, advancing in their careers, having kids, traveling, and living what appear to be objectively better lives than me while i'm single, getting older, not living as lavishly as i'd like, suffering from mental illness, etc.
it was a perpetual reminder of all the missed connections, all the girls i always wanted but will never fuck, and all the routes i didn't take. it is 100% designed to make you regret every choice you ever made in life by passively comparing your fuckups to everyone else's achievements

social media is a drug, it's designed to give you dopamine rushes from likes and replies and nothing else. it's a game where the only goal is to convince yourself that you're not falling apart, and if you have no pieces to play, you might as well not participate. that feeling of watching from the sidelines, feeling inferior and dejected, is a poison that we must purge from ourselves as a society before we have no idea how to even communicate anymore without lacing it with humblebrags and hashtags

>if you stay together you have to do boring shit with her instead of having fun with video games
you're dating the wrong people

Why are you blaming social media for it? That stuff would be true regardless of whether or not you used it. I don't have social media and just hearing my girl coworkers talk about the new guy makes me want to die anyway.

i didn't blame social media for it, i said it exacerbates the problem of feeling disconnected

The only interaction with people I have is here.

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>tfw you have a such a short attention span I sometimes forget what i'm even going to write
i think i might have dementia

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Will someone ITT explain to me why imageboard =/= social media? It seems like the line is pretty arbitrary.

>4 hours ago

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Image board doesn't archive stupid shit you say on the internet to the same degree or blast you with images of everyone you know doing better then you.

lol

You're right, but it's not social status that's the problem, even before the internet people knew their status. The problem is that you're in an ocean instead of a pond.
Back in the day if you decided to git gud at playing an instrument or whatever you could easily become the best person in your town at it. Now you're in the same universe as the best players ever. Roasties spend time flicking through 1000s of profiles and forming their expectations to match. The world is just too big for a stupid tribal ape to cope with. You compare yourself to the global-level competition around you and internally you just give up.

That's why people who stay in small real world cliques and off the internet are usually fine. Even being alone can be better desu

That seems to be Yea Forums specific.

Even ones with accounts at least don't use your real name.

It's anonymous for one.

>be incel
>hang out with girl
>she does nothing but obsessively refresh her snapchat stories throughout the weekend
Wew looks like I'm not missing out on anything being a loner incel anyways

It's quite literally not, lil zoom.

Congrats you've gone from the virgin incel to the chad celibate.

shut up.

Yeah I'm still happy even though I work 60 hour gruelling weeks in a machine shop, with absolutely no friends, or any kind of a relationship outside of close family, and yet I still enjoy my life. Its crazy to see people with huge groups of friends, a girlfriend, a car, and say they are "depressed". I dont know their situations, but some people cant find happiness in things.

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>50% of every popular board is twitter caps of some faggots dramatic opinion on shit no one cares about, or some current event that has everyone ass chapped, tied to a stupid basic on topic question just to not get deleted but designed to talk about the actual picture instead

are you sure

There was a woman who pretty much had it all but she's allergic to typical antidepressants. Eventually depression took over and she offed herself.

they can be depressed and feel it subconsciouslly, but they will never understand why. its because they know how trivial their matters are. they have their physical needs met (sex, food, entertainment) but their emotional and mental needs are empty because they are slaves, have no families, only outlet is tinder, cant form connections with others, and are always, in the back of their minds, trying to think of ways on how they can look cooler and get more likes on instafag/snapfag/fagbook

That's just being a woman aka an insatiable attention whore who can never have enough. So just an average female.

great post kek

There's a big difference. Social media is used in a poor attempt to foster and culminate relationships, whereas Yea Forums is used to call posters you don't like a faggot.
One is satisfying while the other leaves you feeling empty inside. Nobody has to filter what they say or concern themselves with what anyone else thinks here. You don't like a post? Call them a nigger and move on. Whereas on social media, no matter how hard you try to kiss ass, bait likes, or accumulate "friends", you know deep down it's fake and you'd be better off forming real relationships with the people around you, but you don't because that's harder than merely liking a post and following someone.

Social media is just personalized forums that let you pick what people you want to talk to. Prove me wrong.

>the cult behavior and the peer pressure and the one-upmanship and the insecurity all still exists
By weaklings, sure. Even assuming all that was true for everyone, an anonymous imageboard is still far better at fostering real, unfiltered dialogue between people than any other social media site is, for good and bad.

>the cult behavior and the peer pressure and the one-upmanship and the insecurity all still exists
Is that why we all fight over absolutely everything and call each other faggots constantly? You might say yes, but I'd argue no.

no it isn't you fucking retard

my gf pays her half of everything and I enjoy spending time with her. try finding better women

you hung out with a girl for a weekend and nothing happened? you did something wrong

ignorant retard

Nope, we're hackers on steroids.

I can honestly say I never had an account on ANY social media service. In the 90s I was taught not to carelessly share my personal info online and I decided It was a pretty smart lesson.

Forum were based.

I hope I live long enough to see Workholism being the main cause of selfdeath/killings in the US instead of just Social Media/Video Games.

Then and POSSIBLY THEN people will have a living wage and have time for themselves from the workaholic nation/world we live in that shames on people that don't make enough past an amount.

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All they've done is discover the correlative link between "depression" and social media : they're both used by 80% homosexuals and women

myspace angles just evolved into life angles
everybody can be proud of their boring life from the right perspective and just a little vindication
I can't believe so many people push for social media when all it does is make people miserable and act superficially, nevermind all of the data collecting

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we aren't going to dox you or get you fired from your job for saying or doing stupid shit though. Moreover, you basically have to go out of your way to leak your personal information for people to even attempt that.

Was life better before the internet? Be honest

>And yet people here behave just like that, trying to appear superior to others.
we do it for fun, not because we want people to actually believe us
at least the ones that aren't retards anyway
when you're anonymous you can be anything you want, and if you actually have proof that makes for a fun thread

No, Internet made a ton of things easier. But I can say for sure that life was better before 'centralized' internet, as in before google/amazon/facebook became 90% of the global traffic.

Lain was right all along
Fuck the internet

It's precisely because there's no social element, you can't send screencaps to ruin someone's job (without doxing them), so anons resort to meme warfare in purest form to make others suffer. Wojaks, Pepes, virginwalks, trannies, WHIRRRs, and so on, and so on, are the only thing that can affect an offhand reader to make him mad and/or respond.

>tfw you met your current best friends through Yea Forums

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I'm not your friend, buddy

Hell yeah.

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Internet was better before this decade. 2011-2020 ruined everything: movies, comics, videogames, internet, social relationship ecc

Be happy as this guy and you will get people to watching you
youtu.be/1J9ffRgADRU
Don't ever
>Talk about how miserble your life is. Simply saying life is going good and smooth.
>Blatently beg for subscribers
>Don't be boring and not enthusiastic

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I still remember the 3 golden rules of internet:
1) Never say your name
2) Never say your job
3) Never say where you live
It was a different timeline.

back when i quite badly depressed (not oh im so sad, but it was genuinely diagnosed) i had a gf. she knew this before we got together and she dumped me because i was depressed. the end result of this was a suicide attempted that i somehow lived through. was a case of
>i'll be here for you
>oh i meant i'll be there for you when its convenient for me

CAT'S FOOT, IRON CLAW
NEUROSURGEONS SCREAM FOR MORE
AT PARANOIA'S POISON DOOR

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Never reveal to a woman any issues. Any. Once she finds a single shred of weakness or inconvenience she'll jump ship to one of the other 1000 guys lined up behind you.

people assume if they divulge personal information they will gain friendship
people can be VERY short sighted due to loneliness and really the only solution is the embrace the fact that ALL souls are alone

i was talking about this to my literal boomer parents awhile ago where it went from that, to getting in a strangers car because the internet said so.

Yea Forums is anonymity so there is such thing as social clout or sway of opinion. Unless you're a bunch of raiding NeoFags, Discord Trannies, and Ledditors.

Wake me up when the age of technophobia is over

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Don't worry, we'll be entering a global warzone once oil or fresh water runs out, whichever comes first.

Why don't we just get more water from pluto?

Most tabletop games put you in a adversarial role, actually almost all forms of human games are often boiled down to a form of competition, that's the whole point of a game