2026-09-18 11:44 UTC
I occasionally hung out at a weekend but after school was implausible. There were some after school clubs which consisted of doing stuff (either sports or music) with minimal time to chat.
My social life in the week was my brother and whatever (nice, kind) pensioner my folks had over from church. I wasn't online for hours but it did not lead to a rich IRL social life, it led to being good at talking to elderly ladies and hours of reading silently.
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@shimminbeg@masto.ai 2026-09-18 11:47
Since then I have had to move repeatedly to find work and have very rarely managed to develop any kind of social life in person. The friends (and family) I have are scattered across cities and continents and I can only keep in touch online. Even living in a city there just aren't many obvious ways to genuinely socialise and befriend strangers to the point where we might actually hang out. Simply doesn't happen.