Tfw you spent THOUSANDS of hours on Sup Forums when this time could have been better spent doing something productive

>tfw you spent THOUSANDS of hours on Sup Forums when this time could have been better spent doing something productive

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I've been here four year lol

Kill me

5 here

Just 2. I miss watching anime.

op research, quote in whole or part is strictly disallowed

there is an inverse relation to the quality of a thread to your need to stay

actually

this is counter intuitive but after extensive research and personal anecdote i can for a good certainty conclude that majority of returners come for the "slight" high akin to the nicotine in cigarettes to get addicted but not enough to get the shock of stay away a while (maybe on Sup Forums 6 years ago) or permanently

the mind has certain expectations in boredom, that you don't necessarily come here seeking anything but to pass a time performing a habit, any habit and this habit in term gives your brain small increments of chemistry but at the same time it satisfies a whole series of ideological need from talk about being a "loser" to pseudo-political garbage

none of this has the aspiration of changing someone's thinking but it does your mind not only physiologically change but also adapt to the characteristics of the site, ie, quick refresh and almost instant reply, anonymity and memes

and no this is not just trivial i am only kidding status, it is real and it will affect your mind in ways you cannot fathom, quite literal in fact
so you are not "wasting" time per se, you are literally becoming master class Sup Forums user
a terrible multi-ego poster and a clear fraud but you have become exceedingly efficient at it, if it was a job u'd bee rich but u wouldn't do it if you got paid rite

lol

Do you think there's perhaps a component of the "fear of missing out"(FOMO) phenomenon?

no, you get luck it's lottery
no body "fears" missing out on that

Fear of missing out or FoMO is "a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent". This social angst is characterized by "a desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing".

i think it is a significant component desu.

More like the fear of trying and failing

it's not because being on 4 chan isn't fashion per se

others are not others in the sense of being judge-able we are not your peers in the normative view, in the conventional sense we are more like your alter-egos
an eco chamber to release your inner most rage, you can say anything and it will be the new new, you know this

so maybe not just miss to being connected but miss the leading component

I think it's mostly the short term gratification.

To get somewhere where you feel good from playing guitar or programming can take months past the beginner stage. But on Sup Forums you can post the stupidest thing ever and get dozens of replies.

And being able to hop through threads and even boards quickly to find interesting things, as opposed to when you'd be reading a book and most of it will be "boring".

>this time could have been better spent doing something productive

I come here to relax. Back in my 20s I relaxed by having sex with strangers, and going to parties, or bars, or old warehouses and listening to weird and/or indie music, getting drunk and/or doing drugs with all my crazy friends.
I'm too old for that shit. I'm not going to write a novel, or cure diseases, or even put a puzzle together.. Sup Forums is just fine.

Ive been here since October 2008 and yes i am autistic enough to actually remember the month. Am i the oldest oldfag itt?

it's the active component there is something Sup Forums has the other places don't
information age is all about quick gratification, porn is this, google is this, too. you can hop on the net and look at "news" and it does this too
there is a "you" here involved, a non-upboat system of being truly able to talk shit without getting hit, except in words mano y mano, it's kind of wild west machochismo feeling to it
this is why people stay

The question now is weather pornography, Sup Forums and videogames are ultimately harmful.

I'd be inclined to say it is. It does not seem to collaborate well with how our brains work best.

Everything in excess is bad and Sup Forums exemplifies autistic excess in terms of porn and vidya

you lose discipline and gain the ability to quickly parse for information
skills for the information age

but it's best to be a well rounded person in society so it is in that context a negative influence

the brain will take care of itself if you are willing there are new things we discover about it, a mystery organ to be sure

It just seems foolish to waste your brain's plasticity at its most vital stages.

There's a reason why smoking marijuana, drinking alcohol or doing other recreational drugs is considered so harmful before 18, and even 25 years of age.

Is Sup Forums (and porn and video games) not the same in that sense?

Seems like you're gearing your brain for failure, as opposed to building strong habits and optimized neural pathways for optimal pattern recognition, information comprehension and just generally a healthy mind and body.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it feels like this stuff really DOES affect you long term, far beyond the obvious timewasting aspects in opportunity cost.

But did you have fun? I dont wanna be the next newton, i just wanna have fun and make the immediate world around me a better place

I would argue that posting on here, and playing video games is still 10 times better than watching TV like many of our parents do, and did.

nypost.com/2016/08/27/its-digital-heroin-how-screens-turn-kids-into-psychotic-junkies/

This is me.

No I didn't have fun.

Maybe 1/15th or less was "fun". I feel like ultimately I and most people would have more fun with long term gratification that leaves you with something.

I started getting fit, and the feeling of looking at your body in the mirror and flexing and posing for 15 minutes is funner than years of 4,chan.

Is it mutually exclusive though?

Are those the only two options?

Silly. It's like saying " at least I'm smoking crack instead of shooting heroin! "

it is not fooling because the decision is not one made with one's future in mind

it is like the flame for the moth the fire of primeval ego we are drawn to it by our convoluted place in the world

it is not even close to substance abuse (not recreational use btw)

Sup Forums has a conscious component to it, if the computer was injecting toxins straight into your body then maybe it is comparable

you are unconsciously seeking a community in the hinterlands, a primal call for members of like, drugs and alcohol does this in the opposite way be making the substances themselves cool because they are dangerous

Sup Forums is like those fantasy experiments about stangers thrown into nowhere and are forced to depend on each other, generals, personalities, name-calling, recognition from posting patters, etc and so on are all adaptations for social acclimatization, even more cool because we can at any moment lose that connection with anyone, except for those groupies but they are not truly anons

>fooling
foolish

i mean consciously unconscious
you just want to talk to people about stuff

"hey what do you do there"
"oh you know talk about stuff"

the question is why is it sooo goood

Fuck this website tbqh

Considering it's the only place there I interact with another people, it's not that bad.

do you think that's healthy though

why don't you talk to other people and form meaningful relationships

It's definitely not normal, but I don't see any unhealthiness here.

I don't talk to people IRL because they have stupid interests and in general are assholes.

>I don't talk to people IRL because they have stupid interests and in general are assholes.

How is that possible different from here?

Do people on Sup Forums have better interests and don't call everything jew, nigger, shitskin, faggot, etc?

Sounds like a pretty weak rationalization. I doubt this is as much of a conscious choice as you're portraying it here.

Don't you understand? People IRL always talk about some uninteresting shit like who drunk more at the last party, who have better phone and who fucked more girls. They don't know the world besides their narrow view. At least here I can talk with different people from different countries, without all this social status shit.

>Do people on Sup Forums have better interests and don't call everything jew, nigger, shitskin, faggot, etc?

Nothing wrong with calling each other a jew or a shownigger.

>People IRL always talk about some uninteresting shit like who drunk more at the last party, who have better phone and who fucked more girls.

True.

And here everybody talks about pictures of black cocks and how "WH*TE MEN CANNOT COMPETE", all women are whores, and how they plan on killing themselves every single day. Oh and also talking about "How do I get [this] qt gf? ".

How is that possibly more interesting?

Also people talk about more irl, you can make friends of whatever interests you have. Not everyone talks about "who drank more" or any of that other shit

>They don't know the world besides their narrow view

Do people here know the world beyond their basement or the latest frog meme?

>Nothing wrong with calling each other a jew or a shownigger.

You said people were assholes but it's even worse here. This is probably one of the most negative and pessimistic websites out there. There's never any actual discussion here.

>being a Canadian and a dumb frog poster
No wonder your people are killing themselves with fentanyl

It looks like you browse more Sup Forums than Sup Forums

>10 years

dude it's half the threads here

Almost every thread besides a general is a repost or an r9k post

I can see your point about intelligent discussion but i dont see how this place has it.

Exact same threads everyday.

>50 generals
>Trump
>Why do Americans refrigerate their shoes?
>Why are Europeans gay?
>TFW no black gf
>TFW virgin
>TFW going to commit suicide
>What is your opinion on Argentineans?
>Would you racemix with a [usually Latin american nationality]?
>Picture of interracial porn
>Why do tall countries love milk so much?
>Why are American so fat and retarded?
>Just plain pornography
>Anime threads

It's this. EVERY SINGLE DAY.

How is it worse than talking to "normies"? It's the same if not worse.

Okay i hid all the generals

he's a screenshot of the catalog. Wow good discussion

feels bad man

>weather

>lol u used the wrong word xdddd

>2007 was 10 years ago

>2001 was 60 years ago

I realized this a few years ago, picked up an instrument and used lots of that time to learn how to play it instead.
In a few years you could play an instrument. Just do it (or something similar) with your time.

You are cancer.

no you are neet

Are you 10?

Who gives a fuck about being productive

Normal people who arent manchildren

No? Why would you assume I'm 10?

doubt it
if i wasn't here id just play video games or whatever, for the vast majority this place is just another form of escapism, if it went down today I'll just find a new one

Retards

Yes I would call the people on Sup Forums that

K

Because you can't learn a new instrument after that age.

what did he mean by this

This is a left wing meme

>next year I will have been on Sup Forums for TEN years

How did it all get so bad

[citation needed]

this is the most retarded thing I've ever heard

Lol, that's ridiculous.

>8 years of life spent here
>didn't have a normal life like other 13 year olds
>didn't experience growing up and exploring life
>spent 5 years obfuscating my age from fellow sri lankan copper wire extractors
>still no end in sight

Truly life is suffering, friend.

and yeah you're right

could easily learn a programming language or something in all this time

Your mom's a left wing meme
It's not ridiculous, ask professional musicians.

I learned to play violin at 26 so that's bullshit

huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/06/playing-an-instrument_n_4903835.html

The short answer is: no. Turns out, adults have some key advantages over children when it comes to learning how to play an instrument. For a more in-depth look, we turned to Dr. Jessica Grahn, a cognitive neuroscientist and professor at the Brain and Mind Institute and Psychology Department at Western University in Canada who researches music, and James Lenger, the founder and president of Guitar Cities and music instructor to both children and adults for over 21 years.

This neuroscientist disagrees with you.

Do you have anything to support your unfounded claim?

I play upright bass now, started at 19 and never played an instrument before that. Will I be a professional musician? No but that's not the point.

npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98754560

If you have the urge to make music but never had lessons as a kid — or quit before you got any good — don't despair. Sure, most professional musicians started when they were young. But neuroscientists and music teachers alike say it's never too late. And it turns out, the biggest hurdles aren't stiff hands or an aging brain.

For adults, the desire to play an instrument is often awakened by a great piece of music. For filmmaker David Murdock, it was a tune called "George's Dilemma," performed by trumpet player Clifford Brown.

"The more I listened to him, the more I thought, well, maybe I could play this," Murdock says. "So I bought myself a trumpet and an instruction book, and started teaching myself how to play."

reddit.com/r/AskWomen/comments/3nq6f2/has_anyone_started_learning_a_musical_instrument/

healthland.time.com/2012/05/11/can-you-learn-to-play-an-instrument-at-40-qa-with-psychologist-gary-marcus/

sixtyandme.com/benefits-of-learning-a-musical-instrument-after-50/

talkclassical.com/4010-can-adult-learn-music.html

Waiting for you to refute.

You didn't. You learned to mimic a violin player.
Same
forumklassika.ru/showthread.php?t=61558&page=2&p=1015465&viewfull=1#post1015465

>some retarded russian forum full of lotion drinkers

lmao fuck off idiot

>refusing the truth

>some retard knows that better than hundreds of anecdotal stories and neuroscientists

I learned neat english phrases to impress chicks with my knowledge tho
I think the time spent here wasn't completely wasted on shitposting for shits and giggles

>tfw i spend THOUSANDS of hours being productive when this time could have been better spent doing something i liked

said no one

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