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Well This Seems Interesting
I heard about imzy from This Article. And i'll be honest.... I didn't even really read the whole thing. I saw the headline and thought, "What the hell, let's check it out"
So, without further adeu. My name is unanimous031515 and I come in peace? maybe? I mean this is a great concept from what I could tell from the brief time I spent reading the handful of sentences of the article I clicked on. A place where people can just come together and be... them...
Reddit was fun. But I'm over it. I'm over the circle jerkyness of the entire place. The "Hive mind" mentality. You really need to dive deep into unknown subs to even have a relatively normal conversation over there. I love learning. But learning is really mitigated when the group of people participating just want to bash each other.
I'm a 30 year old married dude. Going out and "Finding friends" isn't happening. I go to work. I come home. I clean some stuff around the house. I eat dinner. I watch a litle TV. I go to bed. Then on the weekends we spend our time with close friends or just with ourselves at home.
I never thought I would be like this. When I was in high school and college I thought "No way, that won't be me! I learned from my parents mistakes!". No I didn't. What I should have been learning was how they handled adult hood. My parents LOVED entertaining people. We always had people over at our house or we went over to theirs and had dinner parties. People in their 30s aren't doing that anymore. They are going to happy hours, still trying to hold on to their youth.
Maybe "holding on to your youth" isn't the best course of action. Maybe we need double dates. Dinner parties. Just to keep in touch with our closest friends.
But, we have something our parents didn't have. The internet. Now, I can face time with my best friend growing up who still lives in our home town. My wife and I can skype them while all 4 of us are sitting on the couch in our own homes. And we can talk for an hour. There needs to be a balance. We need to both accept new technology as the future, but we also need to embrace our past and our roots. We need face to face human interaction. We don't need loud bars or concert venues. We need small get togethers. We are losing our intamacy. I find it Ironic i'm writing about intamacy on a public forum to strangers I have never and will never meet.
I guess that's why I'm here. To embrace technology while getting back to my roots.




Hi, welcome! We have cookies -- or maybe pictures of cookies. But hi!
I'm a 30-something divorced mom who hates socializing in real life. But I have children, so they force me out of the house.
There are some great communities here along with this one. Explore a bit and you'll find stuff that interests you. Currently recommending /otters.
Ok for one... I love happy hour :)
But to your point, I agree ha. I tend to work, go home, play with kids, get online till early morning hours, get a few hours of sleep, repeat... But hey I'm still enjoying it so I'm ok with it.
Imzy is where I come to hangout with folks online now due to it just feels like a better place than any other to be when online :).
Glad to have you here, and hope to hear about you finding your balance. Its always good to have one in life. To much of anything can be a bad thing...
Paragraph 3 is spot-on. Every comment thread devolves into memes and circlejerk. Imzy has been great so far and I'm doing what I can to help it grow. The live chat feature introduced yesterday is so neat!
Also, thanks for that article link. Reading it makes me feel even better about being here and supporting people fighting the good fight.
I hope you come in peace! 😁 Welcome to Imzy!
If you stick an open parenthesis in front of your URL, it will make the "This Article" into a link.
oooo good catch :)
Welcome, unanimous! I understand your predicament. Socializing can get strange after you've moved past a certain age. Past certain milestones.
I think the most successful communities on IMZY are the ones that aren't just carryovers from reddit. The ones that have grown organically as part of IMZY.
This is a terrific space. It's grown a lot in a very short span of time and it's constantly evolving/improving. Hope you stick around and find more communities that suit you here.
Welcome to imzy 😃
Heya welcome!
This is reminding me that I should try hosting dinner parties.
I just moved to a new city a couple months ago. The only people I know here are my co-workers. Though I've met one of my neighbours, she's an extremely nice retired lady.
In theory I want to meet people in my new town, but in practice I end up working all day, grabbing dinner, going home and maybe playing some video games, working a bit more, and going to sleep.
I feel you. I moved to a new city over a year ago, and I'm still having trouble making friends. I think social media just makes it harder to find reasons to actually get together with people face-to-face.
You want meaningful connection. So do we all! It can be an art to sustain this. And there are many conduits.
In my household we're time-poor because we zip around to work-school-kids' things-rehearsals etc. We can stay connected with our devices, but we also make a big deal out of picnics and BBQs with friends and family who are similarly spread thin or dislocated.
I consider the electronic contact just a down payment on the eventual meeting over yummy food. :)