I too have lost all Real World friends and I don't even know why. I'm just a loner I guess. It is hard for me to socialize.

Annie

>> I too have lost all Real World friends and I don't even know why.

Thank you. I am joining the Loneliness support group. I am more lonely then depressed. Even though I am depressed.

I have very few non-cyber friends left. I lost a lot of friends after i became disabled and couldn't be as reliable as I had always been. I am deeply depressed a lot of the time. I am so grateful for DS.

I don't know how to go about getting new non-cyber friends. Any ideas out there?

yea its wierd huh i gotta wonder what that is that seems to make me so diffrent from every one else that i cant keep friends unless im in control which has only happend for short periods of time in my life or if im a complete bitch and just do what everone else is doing

my best friends always seem to be the most fucked up individuals who dont do well around other people as well ive always tried to fit in to be like everyone else and have a reason to hang out with others things like smoking weed drinking doing graffit or drawing skateboarding i never really had any other way to kick it with people and nothing to do if i did unless i felt like i was helping some one and then it was out of simpathy and those people always stuck around cause i was nice to them and gave them respect even when no one else did i dont know where any of those people are anymore i dont know how i will ever make friends again the last person i made friends with was an asshole and i almost got into a physical fight and now im back to not having any friends i had a good friend come over yesterday but it was for the first time in like a month or two and i probly wont see that person again for a while what happend to every one i knew i had so many friends and none of them were really good people who i was really close to they were just people i kicked it with on a daily basis and i havent seen any of them for the longest no one hits me up to kick it anymore no one even says hi my really close freinds dont even say whats up or hows it going or even comment on my photos on facebook its fucking facebook like wtf

i would be perfectly fine with not having any friends if i wasnt feeling so depressed alone and hated but right about now is when you really need them and i dont have the courage to call some one up i havent seen in months and tell them how depressed scared and hopeless i feel cause no one wants to hear that

I've lost a lot of RW friends, but it's not totally their fault..

I still struggle with a lot of social anxiety...

And, like obsticle said, there's no one out there I can really talk to about MY concerns...they just wouldn't want to hear it.

yes, i have. well, i talk to a couple of people on FB, but i really don't think they would want to be around me in RL.

It's just me and my hubby and my friends here on DS.

i have found, at least for me, that people shy away from me because of my disabilities...like i don't have money to spend travelling, going out to eat...so i'm out of the social circles now.

Well... technically "no" but as far as I'm concerned, yes I do not have any "in-person/offline" friends. My closest friend--the only person I feel is a true friend at all-- is someone I only have online contact with.

I talk to people and know people offline that would probably introduce me to other people as "their friend" but you know that means nothing if you don't have a real bond with the person. It's just a replacement for "acquaintance."

One of the last people I actually felt a friendship with has completely succumbed to all the negative qualities that made me stop talking to them for a year. It was good getting back in touch initially, but then I saw he had completely over the edge so now he's out.

My old true friends... too geographically far or just been out of each others' circle for so long I don't see myself being in touch with them ever again.

Pathetically, I have over 300 so-called friends on facebook. People I actually have met and know/knew. But I can't count even ONE that I am actually in contact with/can call a "friend."

Oh no... they are still here...welll..... there....U know what I mean.... anyhow, nope still have friends ... though some did split when they found out I wasn't a rock but had fractured into gravel... so in order to make lemonade out of lemons I infused daily doses of DS and friends online... took the gravel and made a slab... a nice slab of concrete... now I get walked on alot BUT no one stumbles over me....humm maybe I should build a house...?

So to answer yes I have lost FIRL BUT the real friends they are still there....

I dont have any friends left off line, but it has not been by choice. I think it has been a natural progression with my illness.

I lost friends offline before I got online. Getting online gave me interaction and communication again

>> I have very few non-cyber friends left. I lost a lot of friends
>> after i became disabled and couldn't be as reliable as
>> I had always been.

Theoretically, I have one offline friend left. I am unemployed and he is a successful businessman. I dare not call him more then once in a few months.

>> I have over 300 so-called friends on facebook.

I do not want to use facebook -- no ananymity.

>> I lost friends offline before I got online. Getting online gave
>> me interaction and communication again

I used to argue on English forums in '98 -- '06. Then I talked about politica on Russian forums. Unfortunately, there is no one with whom I can discuss my personal problems.

I have friends that live far away and that I don't interact with very often.

I don't really have online friends or offline friends.

I TO DONT HAVE ONLINE-FRIENDS AND NO OFFLINE-FRIENDS EITHER.......DUE TO BEING DEPRESSED THEN DISABLED WITH DEAF/BLIND AND DEPRESSED ON TOP OF ALL THAT..!! I AM NOT A WOMAN OF MANY WORDS...TO SHY SO IM SIMPLY LEFT OUT ON MY OWN.