So What do you Consider a Social Life?

[Terramax]

So we're all on these forums chatting away to people we've never physically met - something which many consider to be 'unsocial'.

Here in the UK (at least where I'm at) the idea of a social life is spending all your time and money on pubing and clubbing every weekend before posting photos of the night to 300 casual facebook friends and bragging how you were too plastered to remember half of it.

I disagree with this. What's so social about forcing alcohol down your throat to help pluck the courage to approach a random girl/ bloke at the bar or pretent you know how to groove on the dance floor?

But at the same time I'm not sure what being social really is. Does it have to be constructive? Something new? Or is it only social if you meet large groups of people on a regular basis, and in physical form?

What is everyone's thoughts?

 

[Nimbus]

Hrm...

It's that thing I don't have

 

[Robert632]

i think being able to stirke up conversations esaily with people is a social attrubite. not getting drunk off your ass every weekend.

 

[happysock]

This is social speakng to other people, other people would consider it to be unsociable because your not paying attention to them, however I would consider it sociable to out on the weekend to a bar, club or pub, and have a few drinks while chatting to other people, I agree with you that it's unsociable to be soo plastered you can't remember any of the night.

 

[War Penguin]

Going outside talking to people and friends. That's the most basic one I can think of.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Speaking to people and having fun with them regularly. Preferable in the real world and not online. It still counts in my books, but I prefer to hang out in the real world.

Some people don't agree with the acceptance of online socialising but I still think it counts.

 

[TimeLord]

I (as a British person) agree completely with you, FFS I'm sitting here on the internet on a Saturday night when all my mates are out drinking.

The Escapist is all I have left

 

[Lord George]

Spending summer days drinking and smoking, hanging around town and going to see musicals with friends has been my social life for most of the summer, now its winter I image we'll do the same but indoors watching films and gaming/fighting. Sadly I can't do it all the time because I live in the middle of god-knows-where with a crappy bus service, lazy parents and no car to get me into town all the time. And that's where the Escapist comes in, I love you guys (in a strictly platonic manly sense of course *shifty eyes* )

 

[ninjapenguin981]

Yeah, too many people think that if it's not in real life it's not worth having.

 

[pirate_wezza]

Its exatly the same where I am in the west midlands. People think theres something wrong with you if you dont want to spend all your free time in a pub. I think its pathetic and incredibly boring. I only know 2 people who dont want to be drunk all the time.

 

[Terramax]

I (as a British person) agree completely with you, FFS I'm sitting here on the internet on a Saturday night when all my mates are out drinking.

The Escapist is all I have left

But I mean is this all England has to offer? I'm currently gearing up to travel around Europe in search of a new home because I'm fed up of the drinking lifestyle or the... hell, there doesn't seem be be another lifestyle here!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I don't know exactly, but I know I'm not very good at it.

 

[zirnitra]

I don't really count this as social. as I know none of you. and very very much doubt I'd like most of you based on what I've found of your opinions and activities.

 

[TimeLord]

I (as a British person) agree completely with you, FFS I'm sitting here on the internet on a Saturday night when all my mates are out drinking.

The Escapist is all I have left

But I mean is this all England has to offer? I'm currently gearing up to travel around Europe in search of a new home because I'm fed up of the drinking lifestyle or the... hell, there doesn't seem be be another lifestyle here!

As much as I hate to quibble this point I'm Scottish and your assumption that British means England offends me.

On Topic: You could look at it that way but if you look at other countries, what do they have to offer in comparison?

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

doing more than I do socially.

I have no life,and I'm fine with it.

 

[Good morning blues]

I disagree with this. What's so social about forcing alcohol down your throat to help pluck the courage to approach a random girl/ bloke at the bar or pretent you know how to groove on the dance floor?

I'm not a club person either, but seriously, just because people like to drink while they're socializing doesn't mean that they're horrible shallow shell-people. A pretty big prerequisite to being social is refraining from assuming the worst about everybody that appears to be more popular than you are.

Being social is just sharing real-life experiences with your friends. I certainly don't count exchanging words with a bunch of faceless forum people as part of this.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I (as a British person) agree completely with you, FFS I'm sitting here on the internet on a Saturday night when all my mates are out drinking.

The Escapist is all I have left

But I mean is this all England has to offer? I'm currently gearing up to travel around Europe in search of a new home because I'm fed up of the drinking lifestyle or the... hell, there doesn't seem be be another lifestyle here!

I doubt you'll find something else anywhere in Europe. I share your pain though, Holland has the same drinking culture. I hate it, I want to get away from it. All the people around here are interested in is chucking alcohol down their throats and slobbering with as many boys/girls as possible on one evening. I don't want to hang out with people like thát.

I'd love to have a real social life, people to hang out with outside the internet. I'd love to go to the movies more often, I'd love to visit a concert every now and then or just play games with people in the same room. That's what I consider a social life, to just have friends around you. I don't have friends around me, just spread around the globe. Not that I don't care about them, o no, especially 1 I hold very very dear, heck more dear than any person (including family) around me. But it would be nice to just be able to grab a movie together in the weekend. I guess it's time to move my butt out of this place.

 

[chris89]

Being English, generally means as others have said going out every weekend and gettting hammered, getting into fights in the streets.

My social life is meeting up with friends most fridays, Help on a preserved railway and talk to the public and enjoy what i like, and finially being with my girlfriend