How important is social life to you?

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It isn't very relevant to me.

Throughout all of grade school, I made a grand total of maybe 2 friends (not including the ones who I THOUGHT were friends, but clearly weren't). One of them moved away when we were in 6th grade. And me and the other friend drifted apart and went our separate ways around our senior year of high school. And I haven't bothered to make any friends in college.

So I have had no social life at all for 5 years. But I'm used to being alone and doing stuff by myself. So I see no reason to change that. I've gotten some weird looks when I say that. But that is so true.
 
Honestly don't feel bad, I've just finished High school and only have a couple of close friends, which I don't see that often.

This was a choice for me, I'm just someone who likes to be alone doing my own thing.
 
A social life can't always be simple depending on your current living style, however I have always been fortunate to have a moderate social life with some life long buddies.

I however, am not one who feels as though my very life has vanished when I don't go out on a weekend. I can go without hanging out for sometime without really caring, and I love solitude.
I really can't take people that whine about not doing anything that weekend. People who have to be constantly entertained annoy me.

Anyways, are you still in college? I know it can be difficult depending on the type of person you are, but it's a no brainer to talk to some people or join a few clubs if you want to be more social :p
 
The way I see it, life not shared is usually useless.
 
Lone Wolf said:
Honestly don't feel bad, I've just finished High school and only have a couple of close friends, which I don't see that often.

This was a choice for me, I'm just someone who likes to be alone doing my own thing.
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Happy Birthday.
 
It's this important. *holds out arms*
 
I often wish I had less of a social life than I do. It's hard being the dude everyone wants to hang out with when sometimes you just want to be alone and not do anything. Sometimes I wish I was a hermit.
 
Sometimes I wish you where. Make of that what you will.
 
Darkside55 said:
I often wish I was less of a forum god than I am. It's hard being the dude everyone expects to make huge epic posts when sometimes you just want to make little casual posts. Sometimes I wish I was Vegeta.
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Oh, fixed!
 
The Monkey said:
Well no, as it also enchants your own experiences.
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Not for me, anyway. I find myself often bored when I'm out socializing, finding myself wishing I was at home doing my own thing.
 
I feel bad about my first comment, so I'll write something else.
I'm not sure how I would really quantify my social life. I rarely go out purely to socialise, but I do have social interactions with people every day. These are incredibly important to me, but I do go through phases. There are times in my life where I long to live alone on an island, for a few months.

People are social animals, but some people probably just aren't wired up that way, and do prefer to keep others at a distance. Which is fine.
 
In high school I had a bunch of people I knew and liked but no really close friends.

In college I never went to parties or big events (despite being at one of the top "party schools" where every weekend you could probably find people getting drunk and whatnot). I did have a few really close friends, but I don't talk to/haven't heard from two of them (partly my fault but those two were particularly flaky to begin with), and there's one or two I still talk to sometimes. I was also in a summer program with some folks and we still have the occasional meet-up.

Now I just moved and have gone out a couple of times with people, which was also nice.

So, I'd say I don't have a huge or even moderate social life, and large groups aren't my thing. But I do enjoy hanging out with people.
 
I have a very controlled social life. I go to party's and big family social events frequently, but it's not like some people's lives where they have a bunch of frat boy friends drag them out of the house and force alcohol down their throats. Alternately, a bunch of nerd friends begging me to come over to their place with some other pals to play WoW or Halo all night long. I'm right where I want to be with my social life for now.
 
I have friends. I hate parties. I tried the dating thing. I didn't like it too much.

Let me count.

9 or 10 close friends, and then I'm in good standing with most of the school. I'm not disliked because I can come off as charismatic, and also shrug off bullying to the extent that they start to actually like me. (I make jokes about myself, or counter with witty remarks, etc.)
 
Social life is very important to me. Here at school I have a group of friends that I see every day and is like family, as well as a ton of other people who come through from time to time or at big gatherings / parties. We drink and smoke and party a lot, but we also (some of us at least) nerd out and play PC games all the time. I also have a group of very close high school friends that I see as often as possible (when people are in town).

I am a pretty pronounced introvert though, and I need plenty of time alone as well. I could entertain myself alone more or less indefinitely if need be, but people are very important to me and I like to spend time with the interesting ones. Sometimes I do kind of want to be a hermit for a year or something and really focus myself, but my friends are too cool to leave for that long :D
 
Social life is so important. If you don't have friends, then there is nothing that really cheers you up when you aren't feeling good. Then again, I would rather hang out with smart people rather than my group of friends atm. But that wouldn't make me fit in now, would it. That's what I hate about social life in school. You have to fit in if you want to be social. Not necessarily true sometimes, but most of the time it is. The only reason my friends like me is because they think I'm hilarious. I don't even know why. I say the lamest shit, and they laugh their asses off. And based off our group of friends, we all make fun of each other to the max of making them feel absolutely horrible. But since we do it to each other constantly, we always get revenge on one another, so no ones feelings get hurt. I don't know, my school must be weird.
 
Not very important. Just a couple close friends. Contrasting with Darkside, I'm sometimes melancholic about not having one but then I'm happy that I don't have those responsibilities.
 
DEATHMASTER said:
Not very important. Just a couple close friends. Contrasting with Darkside, I'm sometimes melancholic about not having one but then I'm happy that I don't have those responsibilities.
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^Well said. This describes me as well.

*Dammit, why are you people always much more eloquent than me?!*
 
Hah, I find my use of (non-cursing) language quite simple. But cursing, I can make hilarious talk and comparison (so I've been told). Not that but 1 of hl2.netters would know (Willeh knows it).
 
There's maybe 4 people at school I can call friends, but only two people I actually hang out with frequently (come home from college please ;_; ). Social life is pretty cock and balls to me tbh.
 
Pretty important - although I am a huge introvert, people are a central part of my life. Most of my friends are gone for university, I just broke up with my girlfriend, and one of the few friends who was staying I'm not really talking to anymore. But I get by. I talk to a few people pretty reliably on the internet nowadays.
 
My need for people often butts heads with my general hate for people. So it's an awkward situation most of the time. I'll get annoyed by people and go off and do my own thing. Hours later, I'll be dying for someone to talk to.
 
Qonfused said:
My need for people often butts heads with my general hate for people. So it's an awkward situation most of the time. I'll get annoyed by people and go off and do my own thing. Hours later, I'll be dying for someone to talk to.
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Try talking to yourself, it works pretty well.
 
ShadowArmy said:
It isn't very relevant to me.

Throughout all of grade school, I made a grand total of maybe 2 friends (not including the ones who I THOUGHT were friends, but clearly weren't). One of them moved away when we were in 6th grade. And me and the other friend drifted apart and went our separate ways around our senior year of high school. And I haven't bothered to make any friends in college.

So I have had no social life at all for 5 years. But I'm used to being alone and doing stuff by myself. So I see no reason to change that. I've gotten some weird looks when I say that. But that is so true.
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You seriously have to be trying to have no social life.

GTFO. Literally. Go outside and just talk to somebody.

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If only I had multiple personalities, then I could create my own forum and just talk to myself.
 
Social life is pretty important to me, unless I have to get up a god-awful time in the morning, I'm basically out with friends everynight, I'd lose my mind sitting at home on the computer night after night.
 
I consider social life important, but nowadays I work so much that it becomes rather hard to be social with most of my friends. The little free time I have usually ends up me and three blokes in a couch, playing Monster Hunter on PSP.
 
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