Respectable answer.
I blamed you though i shouldn’t have. Just absord the information for what it is, i know you have good intentions. Apologies for the cocky attitude.

Originally posted by Moonamite:

Wherever you go, there are bad people. But there are good people, too! When you have friends, The world seems to light up a tiny bit. And if you feel suicidal, remember this: You have a great destiny to fufill, Legacies to raise, Mysteries to uncover, and generations to accomplish! You are the beginning of a grand tale waiting to unfold! You must endure!

I don't think optimism is bad but dude that's unreal on a next level. So out of touch.

Most people who are suicidal are not suicidal because they lack emotional support. Their feelings are not the source, but rather the state and condition they are in along with a poor worldview is what causes their emotional distress, so you can't just lift it up. What you're saying can be effectively translated to 'Stop being depressed'.
You're not helping.

This nonsense you posted is gonna be picked up faster by them than you and i pick up on it and it's gonna send them farther down in to hopelessness, feeling like everybody who tries to help just don't get it and will probably resist professional help and close themselves off even more.
Your words can be googled, you are personally not even needed for it to be said- just a messenger, and that's why it's so meaningless to a suicidal person. It's not like you're their best friend or somebody who matters either.

Your creative lullaby makes for a good anime but keep fiction out of the brutal reality that suicidal people live in.

Edit: Please god forgive me for this huge wall of text, i intended it to end after just 3 paragraphs but i have too much to say on the matter.

From my point of view a lot of people here are similar to each other, even those who seemingly appear to stick out from the crowd (This is generally a good thing though, if you want strippers you belong in the strip club right?). It could be that they are socially underdeveloped or very anxious about conversing with people, which is why many people would come to fear me or dislike me because i'm a confrontational person.

I thought about it for a while, but truth is that the people i myself added never really got anywhere. The only people i managed to stick with for about 2yrs+ and to this day were by people who made the first move on me. The first one being an intellectualy driven person like myself with similar interests, whereas the other one is a bass player who recently won a competition in Bosnia and has been on the news.

(I forgot one more person; A married guy who owns a doughnut shop. Was a good gaming buddy, has disappeared from steam for a long time though)

Needless to say, for my taste they're exciting people, but i wouldn't have added the musician based off of what i saw from him at first, but that changed quickly with the maturity and good conversations he was able to take on. I think in general i attract the people i'm looking for with the way i behave, in this group anyways.

I'd say it comes down too much to chance whether you find a person that suits your liking. You most likely won't find it from the comments unless we're counting hours by months and you're that patient, since there seems to be a circle where just the same people post 'add me'.

Touching more on 'finding people to your liking', there's a good portion in here who if, they could, create their dream-person out of thin air would probably still not like it, because they aren't aware of what good qualities are or end up contradicting their needs(Your taste is subjective, but the qualities in a person is not entirely so- i could prove it from a biological perspective but please dont make me)

A lot of people here could be great, but nobody is really passionate enough to actually learn how to hold a good conversation or reflect on their past convos to improve, or have some sort of hobby that they are able to translate in to an interesting conversation. And the set standard that you have to respond to them on a daily basis or they delete you is just insanely absurd and SO out of touch with reality. The worst part is that most people probably won't be interested in your hobbies or passion either, even if you can explain it in simple terms that they can understand in.

A lot of people are not interesting, nor interested. The conversations i've had with people i added are quite robotic and predictable, most likely a result of what i've briefly mentioned in this post.

There's a few flaws in this post so take it lightly, i'm not articulating myself well but it does express my overall thoughts on this group and the issue with adding.

It's not harder to find those people at all. Most people (in this group) just don't live up to it themselves. They want, but they don't give back.

Mentioned this before, don't know where. It's kind of like looking for a life-long partner to marry, but you're looking for it in a strip club. That's what this group essentially is, and i say this with no ill intent. It is a general statement that doesn't apply to all, but to most.

The people who tend to write longer paragraphs about themselves looking for friends are usually worse than the ''add me'' people because they copypasta their long texts all the time.
Unfortunately the genuine ones suffer from it.

Your third paragraph about looking for 'status', what i think you mean to say is that you have a set standard. It's like being an adventurer trying to be friends with a guy in a wheelchair. You can't really drag him along on your day-long hiking adventures. There is nothing wrong with the way you look for friends. To have no standards for who you want to befriend is dangerous and unhealthy, and also costly. I'm guessing that you assume a moral wrong by denying somebody friendship because ''you're not my type'' or ''you dont have X''.

I dont know about the middle part cuz i dont really add anybody, but it's credible enough to be true, and the rest of what you said is more or less to a degree true as well. If it's not having to do the mental gymnastics of getting past their self pity and what not, it's about getting past their facade of ''everything is happy yay lets huggles ^w^'' and a bunch of empty attempts at trying to poorly communicate.

I would dare say that this place resembles a modified mental asylum of sorts. A place for mentally struggling people who are lost attempting to communicate with each other to find closure.

Pretty much that ^

It is a gaming platform (not a website) and it does have features familiar to facebook in the activity feed. You could in fact treat it as a gamer's social club and technically, you are.

They're not friend collectors, they're basically human bots at this point.

Also, roughly 95% of the people in this group have a damaged mentality about expectations, the image & idealization of what they're actually looking for, and a good portion don't even know what they're really looking.

It's kinda like looking for a life-long lover in a strip club. You're just not going to find what you're looking for, nor is what most people look for realistic- Not for the standards they hold themselves to in relevance to the standards they demand.

And since there's practically only socially dysfunctional people in here, it's hard to find a good friend to have around because if you're both poor at communicating you can't really get that far.

That's just generalizing and poorly trying to summarize what's going on in this group though, so take what i say lightly- they're not absolutes.

I'm actually doing great! Been punching people in League.

*Sips rose hip tea*

Bad. Bad Cell. Have some orange juice.

I was actually proving that virtue is objective, so i'm agreeing with OP- Just wanted to point it out in case anybody would question it.

Though i have no idea where this incredible aggression comes from. For somebody who makes the statement that morality is objective, as well as making the comparison between sapience and sentience (humans and animals), he surely acts very animalistic being so impulsive and uncontrollable with his emotions.