Social media and social anxiety

[beetiger]

Reading things like Facebook/Twitter lately seems to both lull me into thinking I'm having passive interactions with people and I'm not, and depress me because I see that other people I know socialize with each other, help each other with projects and problems, and otherwise are easy parts of each other's lives

Comments

[rowyn]

I am pretty sure you are not whiny and useless, although I certainly understand feeling like you are. :( *hugs*

[audioboy]

I'm sorry I'm not local and that I'm mostly caught up in my depression and sense of uselessness, but *hugs*.

[featheredfrog]

Okay, come up some weekend (at this point all seem clear, pick one and get first in line!) and watch/help me bake bread. Bring the others and we'll roast weenies or something.

You are missed.

[cowboy_r]

I'm sorry you don't get more interaction on your tweets. I mostly just have two or three people I interact with, and I couldn't even tell you why them in particular.

[beetiger]

Oh, that's not bothering me. It's the lack of local/face to face interaction.

[ladyperegrine]

But I can't afford to be that way right now; there's a lot of organization and competence that needs to happen or things are just going to fall apart.

I feel this way so much. In a way, it's a good thing, because it keeps me functional. In another way, I wish for that easy camaraderie you're talking about where I could reach out and others would help and vice versa. I don't know how to do it either.

I also get what I think of as the Little Match Girl feeling, which you've described well above.

One thing I'm realizing in hindsight is that transitions are tough for me, and you're in the middle of a big one right now. Maybe that's part of it?

Wishing peace for you and a sense that you are part of the order of things. Actually, that reminded me of "Wild Geese" (I thought I stole the line from Oliver), but the real quote is much nicer.

Love.