Social Interaction from Gaming

I get all the social interaction I need IRL in concrete jungle i live in. I work sales among other things, have employees, a couple GFs i see.. Nice to hermit up with my computer once in awhile. My favorite is close all the shutters and black out house turn phones off so I dont know if it day or night. sadly i can only do this 10-20 hrs a week.

OP dont go deer hunting. I've sat in a blind all day sometimes days not talking to anyone until we get back to camp at night. Face it different strokes. I'm very comfortable with intermittent social interaction. So are the trappers in Siberia who see no one for up to 6 months.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683876/

Notice they call them "the happy people"

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Please word your comments more carefully then. From my standpoint it looks like you were saying that my thread was so much worse because it only had 5 posts, and that it would have so much less without you.

did you ever think I might be using psychology on you? work harder. make it happen. I need help anyway, which is why I posted this thread. You can do it, buddy.

Fusion, for an "expert in social interactions" [Removed by Support] You still do not understand the error of this topic was the presentation.
Rather than study the behavior of others, you ought to study and rethink your own...

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Actkqk wrote:

Fusion, for an "expert in social interactions" [Removed by Support] You still do not understand the error of this topic was the presentation.
Rather than study the behavior of others, you ought to study and rethink your own...

and I say again, it doesn't matter at all how well I presented it. You can't please everyone all the time and mean and nasty people tend to prey on well intentioned shit. It got derailed right out the gate and I had to sit here and defend my own personal character [Removed by Support]. I'm done. GGG please take this [Removed by Support] post down. I was so wrong about your community here. My bad.

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Charan wrote:

Your statement might have worked before internet 2.0 (i.e. when The Rest Of The World Discovered DSL and Caught Up To US Cable Internet), wherein we got skype, streaming, video chatting, photo exchanging, podcasting, facebooking, twitting...the whole boatload of social facilitators that showed Real Life that the Internet isn't antisocial, it's just a more artificial social environment.

It's still social.

Also, the word you're looking for is 'unsocial'. Antisocial, as in antisocial behaviour, means to actively act against social norms, which is why people can be ejected from pubs and bars for 'antisocial behaviour'. Given Real Life's embracing of Internet 2.0, you could probably argue that NOT using the Internet to supplant one's social life is antisocial these days. I have friends who refuse to use facebook and thus I have to manually contact them if I'm organising something larger than a casual get-together. They're friends and I don't begrudge them that, but it's still 'against the norm' these days.

You're about to be owned.

First, "catching up to US cable internet" was never actually a thing. Sweden, Japan, Korea, Romania, The Netherlands, Latvia, Estonia and Switzerland. They have always been the pioneers of fast internet. The US have still not caught up to these big boys. The only thing US has caught up with are 2nd world countries like Russia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Ukraine and so on. During 2000-2010 these countries had much better internet infrastructure than the US.

The BEST US consumer internet plans are WORSE than the WORST internet plans in south korea. The best internet plans in Japan, South Korea, Sweden, the Netherlands and Romania are TWENTY TIMES as fast as anything available to a consumer in the US.

As for datacenter solutions, prices in the US are far far higher than the stuff available in Europe (France and Holland in particular).

Second, it's not social. It's antisocial. There is no way to detect sarcasm on the internet, there is no way to see facial expressions, body language, voice intonation, no way to make eye contact, physical contact and so on and so on. It's interaction but far far far from social. And whether you like it or not, this is still against the norms in our society.

I agree people do crave for social interaction ( my degree in psychology is currently on hold), but everyone also craves for that moment where we can finaly be alone. Its balance, no one wants to be 100% of the time surround by others, and no one wants to be alone 100% of the time (with a few personality disorders aside)


With that being said im a classic solo player. I have enough social interaction during my day (coworkers, friends, family and girlfriend) so that when im gaming i usually prefer to do it solo. While i agree that sometimes social interactions in games can make your gaming experience more meaningful, i prefer to do it solo most of the time.

Its my way to reach that "balance"

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wherein we got skype, streaming, video chatting, photo exchanging, podcasting, facebooking, twitting...the whole boatload of social facilitators that showed Real Life that the Internet isn't antisocial, it's just a more artificial social environment.

All of those things while intended to connect people actually ended doing the very opposite. Real human contact becomes lost in ether and replaced with emoticons and 6 word textings.

Concentration is the pain killer.