/late/ - Late Nights

Social media is probably a better bet for online friends, and this is probably the first and only time I have ever recommended this. Otherwise hobbies lend themselves well to exchanging info and I have done that myself in the past.

>>3355
There is a matter of different conditioning tough. Years on image boards change you, which also depends on which exactly you have been visiting. If you are a four chan lover, then probably social media for you will be just a matter of getting used to. But for people who spent their years sticking to obscure and quiet communities, avoiding any big or shitty sites, social media is very hard, because people there have such a different view of things. And it could be overcome, if you didn't have to constantly remind yourself just how much spying modern social media do. It's like going into the most crowded place in a megalopolis, full of cameras. At this point you might not even know how to approach the thing and find somebody you can be comfortable with.

>>3357
It's a lost cause for someone like me to try and fit in with the normalfag world. I don't even have what it takes to keep any kind of friendship alive.

>>3353 (OP) 
I have real friends and i have internet friends, if forced to choose i would choose internet friends anytime the reason is 'interest in hobbies'.

I had many issues with real friends about hobbies, they are never into it as much as they say they are. There are many bad stories but the hardest hitting was going hiking with a guy that liked hiking and when we get there, he just stared at his phone. 

Internet people usually are more invested in their hobbies than real people, even if that hobby is very internet unfriendly like cars. You can expect a car guy on the internet to know what his cars engine code is but with a 'bmw guy' irl, you are lucky if they know what their car is actually called. i knew 3 bmw guys that didn't know their cars model code, 2 of them owned a e36 and another had a e21 , the e21 one thought he had a e30 and i thought soo too until he showed a picture of his car. This issues gets more pronaunced more nerd a hobby gets. You have no idea how little a guy irl can know about computers and still think he is into computers. 

Conmans and conwomans are far more active irl, they don't even know they are, they genuinely think they are very good at the hobby and they can talk like they actually do, and if they talk good enough other people do too. The more realish the place the less interested they become. (I joined a ||discord server for faggots|| where people posted selfies, had irl meets etc once and it was the straightest place ever, it was what i thought instagram was like, with mostly bisexual girls and guys, which are girls that party and fuckboys that wouldn't touch men even relatively, faggot rant over). You could not believe the obliviousness some people have for their 'hobbies', tech CEO that gives  talks about his love for his tech job with has about as much tech knowledge as a standart boomer, a guy that everyone said i would love because he is also very into cars who thought his prelude(a car he owned for a years) was RWD, people that constantly talk about their love of walking who start bitching after 5km's. 

I don't have these issues with online people, if they they are into keyboards, they have 90 keyboards, if they say they are into computers they have 5 programs they maintain, if they are into sewing we can talk about patterns. 

This is quite insignificant compared to the first issue but real people are  also very hard to choose and leave, you can just call your internet friends some slurs and never talk to them again. Internet friends just have less danger.

>>3366
I get what you mean. I've always had problems finding people I share interests with. I was really into video games growing up, which you'd think would have been something easy to bond with other people over, but it was more than a simple pastime for me. I was constantly on the Internet reading about them and looking for different ones to play and even reading books about them. Most of the people I grew up around had a much more casual interest. It didn't help that I've always gravitated toward PC games more than anything (although I was definitely interested in console games growing up too). 

I'm not as into video games as I used to be, but that pattern seems to have held true with other things I'm interested in. I remember in high school there was a classmate of mine who mentioned being interested in movies once, but I brought up Plan 9 from Outer Space at one point and I'm not sure he was even familiar with what I was talking about. He made some comment about not liking sci-fi movies, which I think he might have just intuited based on the title, and from what I recall he almost seemed irritated. I can definitely understand not having watched it (I don't know if I even had at that time), but you'd think someone claiming to be into movies would at least know of its notoriety. It doesn't seem to matter what the hobby or interest is. The more knowledgeable or passionate you are about something, the fewer people you'll find who you can connect with on that level. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't even consider myself particularly hardcore about my interests either.

I know I'm a complete autismo, but I find it difficult to hit it off with people I don't share genuine interests with. Or at least people who aren't truly passionate about things beyond a surface level. Most of the time I can respect having a genuine interest in some kind of hobby, even if it's one I don't necessarily share. I think deep down I struggle with people who are intellectually incurious, even when I can recognize that they're probably nice people and have some positive qualities that I don't have. Hank Hill might be a good guy to have as a neighbor, but I don't think there would be much for someone like me to discuss with him.