How to stop wasting my life online

LegacyUser

I've a quite strange problem that I've not seen posted about here so hopefully some people can help me. Basically I've been doing nothing with myself since July except going on the laptop all day and pretty much wasting my days. I'm unemployed and going backpacking in a few weeks, but I haven't even been able to motivate myself to do something productive like volunteer. I'm quite lonely in life and have no friends that I'd see on a regular basis. I'd go drinking with a mate or 2 once or twice a week for a few hours but the other 80-90% of my time is spent online. All I do is think about how bad my situation is, yet I never go out and do anything about it - i'm just constantly online posting on forums, refreshing my news feed on facebook etc etc. Clearly I've no chance of meeting people this way, but any other ways of meeting people have seemed to daunting to me. It's easier for me to just endlessly browse the internet. I go for a walk now and then and sometimes read books, but these tasks are also done alone so they don't really help my loneliness. I'm only young (24) and feel pretty bad about wasting the last 3 months on my laptop but i'm not sure how else to live my life? Any help/suggestions would be appreciated

Moomoo1

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I've a quite strange problem that I've not seen posted about here so hopefully some people can help me. Basically I've been doing nothing with myself since July except going on the laptop all day and pretty much wasting my days. I'm unemployed and going backpacking in a few weeks, but I haven't even been able to motivate myself to do something productive like volunteer. I'm quite lonely in life and have no friends that I'd see on a regular basis. I'd go drinking with a mate or 2 once or twice a week for a few hours but the other 80-90% of my time is spent online. All I do is think about how bad my situation is, yet I never go out and do anything about it - i'm just constantly online posting on forums, refreshing my news feed on facebook etc etc. Clearly I've no chance of meeting people this way, but any other ways of meeting people have seemed to daunting to me. It's easier for me to just endlessly browse the internet. I go for a walk now and then and sometimes read books, but these tasks are also done alone so they don't really help my loneliness. I'm only young (24) and feel pretty bad about wasting the last 3 months on my laptop but i'm not sure how else to live my life? Any help/suggestions would be appreciated

haha, I was just writing a long post about that. Always had trouble interacting with people, so turned to the internets. My answer would be that you cannot get interaction with other human beings in your life and so you turn to the internet. It's not the same, but it's something.

I am not too much different, except I have a job and a family and 'the online' is affecting both of those. But I do have a regret about not having done more with myself when I was younger and had the free time - like volunteering for instance, so I strongly suggest you go for it. When you are like me you will regret not doing so.

gugleguy

OP, see you're on Facebook.
Are you on Linked In?
So, to put things as I see them here, let's call FB 'apple - pie' and Linked-In 'Meat and Potatoes'.

I believe that you have developed a sweet tooth here.
Facebook feel good to be on, and have so many 'friends' etc.
Is FB really that 'nutritious'? Well?
So Linked - In.
A bit 'stuffed - shirt' and let's face it, humourless.
But someone joins it to enhance their career prospects and seeking the better nicer job.

Actually, the 'meat and potatoes' need not be strictly applied to linkedin on its own.
I mean, some sole traders who do business in photography are on flickr.

What proportion of time are you spending online having 'apple - pie' OP?
I'm not on FB btw.
Do you still read books, or go fishing? ? Tossing things out here, but, OP, u need to change direction by the looks of things.
good man.