I used to think that. Turns out everyone online is a millionaire rock star MMA champion having sex with supermodels.
Excuse me, but you’re stalking me again.
Not really – there are many support groups for people much more crazy and depressed then me.
I am sorry NFPD – Not For Public Discourse. I owe you no explanation.
Most recluses and loners wish they have friends but don’t know how to make it happen.
Even in the age when millions of loners are one click away from each other.
Hahaha…
But seriously, good advice on walking club, making friends and getting fitter.
I also think OP is a sincere person who knows what is best for him. So if op doesn’t make physical friends and makes phone friends only, then that may be right for him.
So am I, and I imagine so are a lot of people here, and yet these threads keep appearing…
That may be so, but getting a person to invest enough to be interested in phone calls when he’s not invested enough to even meet them in person, is a particularly improbable challenge.
Seriously, who wants to be friends with someone who has been pretty explicit that he only cares as far as the other person can do things for him, exactly the way he wants them done? That’s not friendship, that’s toxic. Friendship is reciprocal, with give and take to accommodate both person’s needs.
That’s the key point that’s missing in this clever plan. It doesn’t consider the needs/desires/thoughts/feelings of the other person at all. I don’t know a lot of people who are okay being treated like a commodity.
There maybe people who are also interested in phone friends only, like the OP.
Maybe later on, they become interested in meeting also. No one can predict it now.
Even if they don’t meet, the phone at least serves the purpose of talking and listening to someone, which are important things in life.
Well, there’s always Dial-A-Swede.
I’m surprised no one has created a network for people who just want to talk and hear someone else’s voice (now and then). There are all those toxic oldsters who get cutoff from family, bored housewives and young kids who are struggling with fitting in. I guess most of them use Facebook but you don’t get to hear one another. Skype would work for that… you don’t have to use the video part. But I’m not sure how anonymous that is (been ages since we used it).
I agree with your point about deciding as an adult, but I still don’t think you have the authority. This is probably straying into Great Debates/The Pit, but I believe an adult is self-sufficient if possible. Living with parents while accepting an allowance deep into your 40’s and being an adult are mutually exclusive.
You have heard of phone sex lines?
But those cost money which isn’t something the OP really wants to spend.
I was thinking of more along the lines of community services that do check-ins on elderly people to make sure they didn’t fall down and break a hip or died. Last month a young friend buried his my-aged father … who was discovered about 2 weeks after he died.
(I have actually thought about doing phone sex as a job but somehow I think the sound of the cockatoo screeching, laughing and twanging the metal bars of his cage behind me would not lend itself to sexy funtimes. 
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Not really – I am mainly looking for people like me.
There are millions of Homo Interneticus as unsuccessful in life as I am. On most support groups most people are stranger then me…
Thanks a lot. I will look into it. Always learn something useful.
Thanks a lot – you understand that there are millions of people like me. Of course there are hundreds of millions of normal people unlike me.
They cost $4/minute in this life, and may help achieve eternal suffering in the next.
My condolences.