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If people just want a chat there's a Twitter thing called #JoinIn. People get together for informal chats on Christmas day. It has a UK focus, which affects th
by DanBC 6y ago
If people just want a chat there's a Twitter thing called #JoinIn.
People get together for informal chats on Christmas day. It has a UK focus, which affects the times it'll be busiest.
- goldenkey 6y agoHonestly, most of those of us who are lonely also hate corniness and artifice. And that sounds like both.
- refulgentis 6y agoI feel compelled to share that after 30 years, my social anxiety only started improving once I stopped seeing stuff like this as "corniness" and "artifice" and instead as mundane BS that is step 1 of 100 towards a meaningful relationship. I was not the one blessed person on earth who was going to have lifelong friends fall into my lap from going to work[1] and the grocery store [1] _Small_ FAANG team, artifact of a reorg of a reorg
- alisonkisk 6y agoExactly right. "Corniness" is a symptom of the beholder's mental health challenge, not the conversation.
- goldenkey 6y agoMental challenged? That went from 0 to 100 quickly. It's isn't a DSM diagnosis to decline to be co-opted by feel-good but ultimately vapid, cloy gestures.