Pub for pool and beers! Let's go!

I'm actually pretty busy and when I'm on here I'm also on a number of other sites and during the day working, at night studying.  But I've cancelled the study for this year cos I'm sick of the bloody computer! 

The problem I have is with talking on the phone (it's a kind of phobia I developed in my first IT job and have never really recovered), which is a sucky one for me, but I'm happy to use MSN or SMS to say "pub, beers, now?"

2 hours a day for three months though - that's just fucking ridiculous.  Spending 2 hours a day for three months with someone counts as a bloody relationship!  With someone you've never met!  What a weird request.

Besides, who'd want to waste all that time chatting with you?  What a waste of good man flesh!

can i just say i love that word and if you dont mind im pinching it haha

i agree although i do spend a lot of time on my computer...im on and off through the day

but i will msn with people that are also on and off at work through the day

but talking to someone for hours a day for weeks and months before you meet

yeah rack her off i reckon

id prefer to meet as soon as possible to see if things click and work out where to go from there

cause like you said...you learn nothing on just with reading words on a screen

good luck and welcome to the forums cybertard

roxxy

perhaps this is more a symptom than a cause. a symptom of a disposable society.

there's very little sense of community these days, of being part of a whole, that they have to find new ways of being connected to other people, hence the popularity of facebook and other online community sites. even in that attempt, there's still a massive distance, because these days, words don't feel as "real", nor the does the fact that there is someone at the other end of those words that could possibly be affected by it.

long gone are the days when you used to have whole neighborhood barbecues, when kids used to play with the other neighbourhood kids, cricket and footy on the street. Now they're all kept coddled indoors playing computer games and watching tv. afraid that the bogeyman is going to attack, when more often than not the predator was someone already inside the house.

gone are the weekly dances where people used to meet new people. I don't mean nightclubs, but actually dances where a boy and girl danced with each other. got to know each other instead of rushing all the time to get that momentary fix. when did courtship become such an unfashionable practice?

we're so estranged to each other now that bystander apathy is rife, hardly anyone looks out for each other anymore. case in point, of the people that stood there and filmed someone on their mobile trying to successfully committ suicide instead of going for help. more interested in being the latest hit on youtube than concern for each other.

I live in a rural town. I know my neighbours. I know all the kids and their parents in my son's class at school. I can walk down the street and talk to at least ten people that I know. I also visit Sydney frequently and the first thing that strikes me is the lack of eye contact. On this and another dating site I have met and made some fantastic friends. Some of whom wil be friends for the rest of my life. I would never have met them if not for the internet, let alone had the chance to get to know these amazing people in real life.

Many of the men I chat to are CEO's and General Managers of large corporations. These men do not get home from work until nine, nine thirty at night. They would like a little down time, a little conversation and at times some feminine company. Because of work commitments they have no time nor the inclination to go out and socialise.

Therefore I conclude that the internet is a facilitator of social interaction and not the demise.

Happy surfing people,

fionabee

Yes, yes and yes s'more! But hang on...its gen Y that created this

maelstrom of online antisocial behaviour...take your message to FB

Youtube etc....reckon you would get stoned for espousing such

heresy amongst your peers...lol

IF it wasn't for the net we wouldn't have had some of the most pleasurable experiances that we have had .

It is no substitute for real life but im afraid we can't do without it NOW

Yes the pub ,and a freindly game of pool is great , chatting over the fence , barbeque's with freinds you cant do without either.

NOTHING BEATS FACE TO FACE

REAL LIFE U NEED TO FEEL WHAT THE WORLD HAS TO OFFER

HAHAHAHAhehehehehehe

Enjoy while you can

Life can be ver hurtfull

my parents would no doubt agree with you train.. Iv been what some would call a "nerd" ever since I was 4yo running MSDOS!
Simple truth is that I CHOOSE to be here.. I'm not big on clubbing etc.. FB wasn't created to kill off face to face meetings but more as a way for people to keep in tough!!

I agree with Fiona!! some of the most interesting people I have met.. I met on the net!!
Each to their own!! Have a mint slice! :D

(ps - My first post on here EVER)

Social networking sites like FB etc we not made with the intention of getting people to spend hours in front of their PCs (which I know is what has happened). They idea was an easy effective way to keep in touch and meet more people to chill with..

I didn't need sites to make me a nerd. i was born one.. i'v been PC bound since I was 4yo!! good'ol days with MS-Dos and SNAKE!

I love the interent...I get to chat with (online and I have met some of them) very interesting people..I catch up with family and friends flung across this wide globe of ours...I get to bitch about seemingly unimportant topics without fear of reprisal - well vocal and physical...and all from the comfort of my work office chair or my loung at home.

Sure I go out and socialise with people in the real world - but out there I have to behave myself, be wary of who I say what too and I have to put up with the other idiots out there but here...nope...I dont have to do any of that.  Its my choice if I join in or even 'listen' in to a conversation, who i spend my time with, no one is spilling any drinks on my nice clothes or eating with their mouths open in front of me.. yep this works for me.

Kisses

Focus

Hi to all..

Thanks for all of you valid convos and opinions and these things i can " tolerate " coz its a discussion lol

someone said about that FB for instance wasn created as an addiction and to get reaquanted with friends etc and thats fine i do as well B U T.... if i want to say hello to someone i yell across the fence, pick up a fone or get my ass in my hot ass ute and see them.

It also seems that people have a different perosnality in " cyberland " that they can be whoever they want to be and therefore are untrue to themselves.

Some of your said that you have met some wonderful interesting people and BLA BLA BLA BLA on here well let me tell u this... I am an astronaught, i once threw a stone 100km, I climbed mount everest twice then ran up it coz i was bored, i once caught a fish < --------------------------- > this big... all INTERESTING stuff but its words on a screen anyone can be ANYTHING on here.. HOW BORING get off your asses and experience the world and new people.. again some people said they dont go clubbing pubs clubs etc.. well thats fine but how hard is it to make REAL friends that you can be urself with.. AGAIN one of you said YOU CHOSE to be here.. well im very sorry for you..

despite your own admission to beiing on here have a look at yourself with an OPEN EYE.. and see if you equate to SOCIAL DEATH

1. i spend ..... so many hous on a computer vs how many hours i see REAL friends = social death

2. i have more " cyber friends " then real friends = social death

3 .i feel more comfortable talkin to people about personal stuff then friends = social death

4. i am more confident, comfortible talkin to people then in real life = social death

5. you race home to jump on the computer after work = social death

6 . you play world of warcraft =  ( im not even going to reply to that one )

In short social death cyber people hide on computers and away from the world and themselves for what ever reasons and have a total lack self motivation, confidence are slowly grinding social interaction down...

Happy day to all you real people out there hope you have a great day

and gleebin giggerbyte compute compute 1011100100111000100011100001001001110010 to all you  socialy cyber corpses....

hey focus

just in addition dont you think that is a prime example of social death...

the fact you dont like " drinks spilt, people eating with their mouth open  etc etc " THATS LIFE

you would rather spill doritos, canned cheese and mother drinks while playing WOW with ur daggy pajamas on

while facebooking, youtubeing, msning, and talkin to complete strangers a world away

then experience life and fun for real????

yeah its good to chillax sometimes but cmon.... u cant tell me a convo.. a bunch of letters typed on a screen from someone that could be ANYONE is better then hangin out with new or old friends in what ever scenario.............

The people I spend a lot of time with online I have met in person and catch up with when ever I am in their area or they are in mine.  I have a large circle of friends all over this wide world of ours and it isnt always possible to catch up in person however with the advent of web cameras I can 'call' them quite regularly and for me that is a more personal way to chat to them than over the phone because I can see their faces this way. This is how I get to catch up with new and old friends alike.

as for the pjamas - you obviously havent been in my apartment because you would realise I dont wear pjamas...WOW - no way in hell...I dont do comp games...as for experienceing life for real - sure I do and I do go out into it - I even venture down your quite regularly (possibly even passed you in the aisle of your local Coles) but please dont fret over me for too much longer because I am moving to be closer to a large proportion of my social circle but thats is in no way going to stop me from being an acive online user...but hey when i am next in your area how about you take me for a lovely walk around your neighbourhood and show me exactly what it is I am missing...I am touched by your concern for me...

Kisses

Focus

Cyber corpses, cybertard..and I thought RSL( & the like) = Above ground

cemetary...was funny!

I see the benefits of the net, being to open a whole new world of opportunities

to those who wouldnt ordinarily cross paths. A few years ago, in association with

TAFE, a few colleagues & I set up chat room access for ppl suffering social phobia,

& other similar mental health disorders, which proved a huge success, leading all

participants into some form of education/employment/reconnecting with their

community. More importantly, however, was a significant improvement in a chronic

& debilitating condition.

As with anything, we humans tend to use and abuse the good stuff. Not rocket science

& hardly containable. but hey, without the net, we wouldnt have been entertained by

you expressing your opinion.

Hello fello CYBERTARD, SOCIAL CORPSE followers,

Just so you are all aware i am NOT BASHING THE INTERNET...

i am simply cyber bashing cyber punching in the face the people that do nothing

but sit on it and the people use it as their ONLY means of socialising

i do like all the comment opinions from both sides of the fence though

on stand by for my upcoming forum on CYBER ABUSE !!!

some dude called me a cock sucker coz i wouldn let him suck me off

and he got abusing so stand by for some fun cyber ranting :)

so are you expecting to be linched by the nice people here or are you just another single male for us intellegent people to play with???

i think you will find all sorts of walks of life on this site

from the lonely housewife and the single mother

to the corporate ceo...the the wizz kid nerds and the socially inept

so who are you to say that we are wrong to be here

personally i have met half the people i socialise with and the only reason i havent met the other half is because i havent got round to it yet

im a single mother with 100 kids...i dont get out much...i dont do the clubs and pubs

i have plenty of friends and family that i talk to often...i even leave my comfy chair sometimes and go visit them....hell some of us have long time friends and family on here

i have never travelled..never wanted too...but in the last 3 months i have gone to Sydney twice and Melbourne once and next weekend im off to Canberra...to meet people that i chat too on the net more importantly on RHP...people that i would never have had a hope of knowing if i wasnt on here

i have been places i would never have been if i wasnt on here

so yeah the net might be my place of fun...my place to excape...50% of the time

but the other 50% im off with these great people having the time of my life

and no...like the fabulous Focus...i dont play stupid computer games either

roxxy

well LONGFORD ( my last name is ford btw )

As i stated above you clarifying my point I AM NOT BASHING THE INTERNET OR PEOPLE THAT USE IT

i am on the internet RIGHT now typing this so would be a hypercrit to say all people that uss are socially inept

MY POINT was to the people that LIVE on the internet.... The PEOPLE that cant LIVE without it

the ones that devote MAJORITY of their time to it. The PEOPLE that do MAJORITY of their socialising on here

the internet is a wonderful tool to meet people hands down no arguement.

MY GRIB VENT is to the COUNTLESS people the have become a slave to technology and have become

socially incompetant that they cant live without this tool for communication

happy reading stand bye for CYBER ABUSE VENT :)

Its all coming undone...a simple cyber rant....eloquently displaying

some excellent points...BUT...never underestimate the brains trust

to pull apart even the most well intended of posts.

Now you see ladies and germs, THIS is a discussion...no name calling

YET (germs doesnt count cos it just doesnt). Ok, intermission bell

is ringing...back to your seats..and on with the show :-)

MYNAMEONYOURLIPS... SAID IT RIGHT

A eloquently point made....

longford you have still MISSED THE POINT i think i may need to draw it in crayon tape it to a brick set fire to it

and throw it through your window...

if you consider yourself apart of the social inept, cyber addicted corpses then fine who am i to judge

i am deeply sorry for you.. it was in NO way ment to offend anyone or be the cyber poison under cyber skin

or in your language be the trojan virus hahahahahah

and it has you because you have turned a discussion into a personal matter ( again im sorry for you )

and since you a " cyber women " and all over this cyber discussion / lingo / argument / point making / rantine etc

there is no way i can will nor will i try or be bothered too and im male and so we can never win anyway

i was simply ranting about the countless people.... ...oh bugger it you know what i said no point sounding like a broken

record

and il end this discussion buy simply saying CYBER = SOCIAL DEATH

THE END !

Reading your first post reminded me to put the bins out. We all know how much of a disaster that is when they are full.