Does using 4chan actively damage your social skills and keep you trapped in an addictive loop of social media? Would being permabanned actually be an improvement?
>>109904940No. It is probably the healthiest form of social media besides textboards.
>>109904940>Does using 4chan actively damage your social skillsBeen using the site since it was created. I like your idea. That will be my excuse for the times I do something socially unacceptable. Especially letting out massive long gnarly farts in public.
>>109904940yes
>>109904940I'd say r*ddit is worse.
4chan and other chans are the only social interaction i have, i would have brain damage without it
Depends by the doseIf you browse long enough to form your opinions and views on what tards on 4chan say...ye it's badBut the same and worse can be said for other tard communities like discord / tiktok / instagramIt's up to you to have solid real life relationships.I'm a kind of oldfag and browse 4chan 2/3 hours per week. At that dosage nothing read on 4chin has impactAvoid the retard boards tho, I think /pol/ /r9k/ /b/ /a/ /v/ and other trash actively damage your brain
>>109904940I don't use any sort of social media, I transitioned from message boards to 4chan way back in 2003, I think it actually improved my social skills...
>>109905000checked
yesit is more likely that pepe is seen as outcast than 4chan level institute
>>109904940>social skills>lying to everyone>lying to yourself>become SSRI-dependenti'd rather stay "unskilled" thanks
>>109904948Yeah unironically. Competitive social media like Instagram and LinkedIn has groomed normies into being self absorbed sociopaths where human interaction is used to boost status and social climb. Insane how many people IRL 180 on me the moment they realize i don't use social media.
>>109904940No, I just browse it at work to combat boredom.
Of course it does, if you're cattle. It has the same amount of circlejerking and closed bubble manifestations as any other social media site, but has a higher concentration of the mentally ill who genuinely think the way insular bubbles think on 4chan is how the world actually works. It's how you have legions of /pol/troons, frogposters, and soijakkers genuinely thinking the real world consists of billions of trannies and everyone who disagrees with them on the most trivial issues is some tranny jew pajeet shill fed glowie that is explicitly paid to be right there specifically to disagree on that one topic.It comes with the territory of the post-moot leadership encouraging an invasion of mentally ill cattle to fill the site.
>>109905002>improved social skillsI don't think calling everyone a glowie spook is helpful
>>109904940yesmb
>>109904940Yes. No because I've been here for 21 years and my social skills have completely eroded.
>>109904977Same. BTW what other chans do you use?
>>109904940I tried getting on normie social media like tiktok and insta and now compared to 4chan its so fucking gay and infuriating. idk why seeing an opinion i dont like in those places makes me so angry because i get the urge to reply with paragraphs that get taken down by some ai moderation bullshit. meanwhile on 4chan i can just call them a faggot and boost my dopamine and move on.
>>109906385Thats how normoid society always was. Normoids are not worth interacting with. There's maybe 0.001% of people on this planet worth talking to.
>>109904940Using 4chan once in a while is nice as a way to remind yourself how fucked up you could become if you don't ground yourself. There's an insane amount of mentally ill people here who ruined their lives and have nothing going on except shitposting, and you can learn from their opinions on the world what not to think. Kind of similiar to how normies mock people that use discord/reddit/twitter, so you shouldn't act like people posting on those sites either. And TikTok is naturally seen as kids so you shouldn't post on it as a grown man either. In the end only acceptable form of social media is like Instagram and WhatsApp, just take pics of your dog/cat, of yourself, of your art whatever, and mostly ignore algorithms and just follow your social circles, artists, brands whatever you are into. Normalchads always win, they're the only winners, while the rest of us is low IQ cattle that couldn't keep up in the contemporary systems. Do you want to become like General Butch, Eurasian Tiger, Supreme Gentleman, or Two Inch Ruggah? Yeah bro, have fun on 4chan then.
>>109904940Yes
>>109904940thumbnail looks like a swol sanic with one extra long tit.
>>109913875>elsewhereWhere is this "elsewhere"? No one ever seems to know.
>>109904948I feel like that bar's in the ground I guess at least 4ch doesn't have some mysterious algorithm warping your feed to fuck with you like other sites
>>109916637I wish i could be this based.
>>109916637>retarded wojack le tradcath nofap image
>>109904953>Especially letting out massive long gnarly farts in publicI did this nonstop during covid as I'd go out in a mask, dressed like a woman, and wearing a pink wig so no one could even remotely recognize me. I have a ghetto booty like a woman so I probably turned some people on.
>>109913875holy projection
>>109904948>>109904975This.I thought about using something with not as much anti-semitism, so I tried reddit. Holy fucking shit. Their anti-semitism is even worse and they actually believe that shit. They don't want to be just edgy. Tho it might've been 80% russian botsSo 4chan is fine. Sadly it's ded
>>109919943>and they actually believe that shit.It's just that on 4chan you assume half of the posters are being ironic.
>>109904940I've gotten into the habit of stopping before I make a 4chan post and asking myself if what I'm saying would be socially acceptable IRL. If it isn't, I reword the post or delete it. Since then it hasn't damaged my social skills much, and I also noticed that a big part of this site's appeal for me was being edgy and calling people slurs. Now I mostly lurk
>>109904940I go outside and all I see are indians lazing about and other browns chimping out. With whom am I supposed to socialise? I believe the current non-existence of a society is much more damaging to social skills than any online mitigation.
