It is life-wasting
Like Heroin or something.

People get in these routines (and I guess it would be rife on b3ta), perhaps as a student or on the dole and it's a routine you can't get out of.

You get your PC and online chats, and barely leave the house only for crisps and other such cheap sustenance. Weeks with no real contact with new people, months without leaving your comfort zone. All your social needs are sated by iRC and web forums. This way of living needs minimal income and you can be quite happy donig this for absolute years on end.

My brother who I suppose has had some "issues" has fallen into this trap. He doesn't leave the house, doesn't work, lives off our parents, doesn't even have his own P.C. He's just happy surfing the web and watching TV all day and that's the way his life will be. Absolutely gutting to see someone who had trials with the Scotland under 18 rugby team deterioriate into such a shell.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:21, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

It's sad when this happens
I watched the guy who lived next oor to me at university do exactly this. No lectures, didn't come out of his room except to eat and shit. I lost contact with him when I left, but as far as I know he never managed to pull himself out of it.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:31, Reply)

It's difficult to comprehend
You know you have one life, and to think your salad days were spent in a dark dank box in a room somewhere pissing away time that you don't really want. I wonder how terminally ill people feel about this, I suppose I wonder a lot about it.

At the end of the day the guy is happy with his lot and I suppose that's fine with me. I'm done trying to get him doing anything.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 19 May 2009, 12:49, Reply)

I fell into this trap three times
as an escape from severe depression. It properly fucked me up.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 19 May 2009, 13:23, Reply)