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rdgrad15 · Sep 13, 2022, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by nonightowl

I certainly HOPE this site isn't dying a slow death, as then I'd be dead since there's no real life people to talk to.

I can have more meaningful exchanges with people on here than in real life.

During COVID's lockdowns in 2020, I couldn't even get on here because I didn't have Internet access. The isolation was unbearable and I'm still recovering from it. I do think COVID has changed a lot of things and people seem to be more selfish and keeping to themselves more. I thought the opposite would happen. It didn't bring us together but divided us.

I don't go to any other forum except here. For one thing, others seem to have that "dislike" or "like" button that people can click. Or vote "up" or "down". I don't have a thick enough skin for that.

I hope it's not dying a slow death too, I would be very sad if that happened since this is one of the most non-judgmental forums I've been on. I agree that Covid changed things, people are more selfish despite believing it would bring people together. The only other site I'm currently using is Quora and even though people can be helpful there as well, there's a much higher chance you will be judged to no end and that's really not a site you can talk about mental health on as well. All of this political crap also caused a great division among people, people are now more afraid to talk about things out of fear of being judged and I'll admit I'm afraid more so than I used to be as well due to the increasing number of judgmental people everywhere.