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Hello.

My name is Georgie and I'm 16 from the UK. My favourite bands are All Time Low, Black Veil Brides, You Me At Six, Young Guns, My Chemical Romance, and there are plenty more but I don't want you to have to read on and on about them.

A little bit about myself. I really would like some friends. I don't have any because I was home schooled and recently started college but I've got no friends. I've been friendless all my life really and would like to meet some new people. So message me?

Thank you :hphones::wavey:

HEY! I'm a new member here and just started college too. I love music and am trying to make friends as well. Message me if you want LOL

You Me At Six and Young Guns are great btw

Hey Kelli :) You like You Me at Six and Young Guns? Then you are awesome :bowdown:

Yes!

And ok this is random but where are you getting those animated smiley things..? They're kinda cool. Ha.

Great! I dunno there just at the side of my page they are :drummer: --->

Welcome to MusicBanter, Georgie. :)

I hope you will enjoy the site and meeting people here from all over the world who like music as you do.

I've always wondered if home schooling would lead to some loneliness. :( On the positive side, hopefully you got a better education than your peers. College should be a great time for friendships to develop that will last you a lifetime. But cyber acquaintances are nice, too. :)

Again, welcome.

Welcome to MB, George. I'm 20, from Kentucky, and I too was homeschooled and am in college! I wasn't friendless my whole life though, Kentucky has a pretty tight homeschooling community that tends to stick together.

I've always wondered what homeschooling was like over in Europe. Were you in the city or the country? Did you know any other homeschoolers? Now that you're starting college, do you think that homeschooling was a good or a bad thing?

And finally, if you stick around MB long enough, your musical tastes will expand exponentially. Join in the discussions, and keep an open ear, you'll dig up musical gold that you didn't even know existed. :thumb:

Hey, thanks for replying. I only knew my brothers and sisters through homeschooling since we done it all together. I think it was a good idea. I seem to know quite a bit more than some of them do. :shycouch:

Hi. Yeah homeschooling does lead to loneliness. I actually have got a better education than most of the members in my course. I don't really do well with making friends. I think I'm socially retarded or something. :banghead: :whythis:

You're not socially retarded, you're socially inexperienced. There is a difference.

Just be yourself, do your best, take chances, and don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zone. And remember, most other people are just as scared as you, they're just more adept at hiding it.

Meh they sound the same to me. I just don't really like socializing I mean they don't understand the music or they way I dress. I get weird looks every time I go into the class. I don't mind being a loner some days. :yikes:

I think that being an outsider is especially hard when one is 16, because most people that age want to "belong." However, sometimes the people around you just aren't the type who make good friends.

For example, people who care about how you dress and who give you weird looks probably aren't capable of being good friends at this time in their lives. In my experience (recalling high school), many people aren't afraid...they're mean. I always avoided those.

I was thinking today about your situation, and I agree with Blarobbarg about the importance of being yourself. I also thought about how, when friendships develop, they may develop almost without your realizing it. Among hundreds of people you meet, there may be one or two where you'll find that you understand the way each other thinks and you'll both feel happier and less stressed after being together than you did before you see them.

So which of the music that you like isn't understood by the people in your classes? I suspect you'll find people here...such as Kelli!...who like many of the same groups you do, and they'll understand why you like them. That's the benefit of the Internet. :)

Thank you. I'm too nervous to be myself though. When I'm around family I'm crazy but as soon as I'm around public I'm shy. I used to along well with my sister but then she's got a boyfriend now (who lives in Manchester) which is almost 400 miles away. It's all boy boy boy now and it is really making me feel lonely.

I tried telling her but she's like "Yeah after I've sent this message" then I'm waiting an hour or more. So I am 100% a loner right now. :wave:

I think a bit of lonliness goes with being a true fan of music especially if you live in places where your tastes and favourite genres are not well known.
Anyway, welcome. I'm new here myself.

I've been pretty much a loner all my life too. In school I had a few (two or three) very close friends and outside of that it was an "us against them" situation --- not that we wanted it that way, but when you stand apart from the mainstream (not into football, pop, gross humour, drinking etc) you tend to get ostracised and compartmentalised. After leaving school and getting a job I made some friends, but none I'd see outside of work. I had one or two --- literally --- good friends I would see but as time went on these drifted away, due to various circumstances.

When I took redunancy from work in 2009 to look after my sick sister, I had at that point no friends outside of work (though I keep in touch with one) and so I became basically a loner, again. But I have made friends through MB and though it may seem sad to say that your only friends are online, there have been times when the support of these guys has seen me through tough times. It's hard to be on your own, the moreso when you're caring for someone and your family has generally lost interest in the situation, casting you adrift, so the friends I've made here are as valuable as just about any I had in the "real world", some more so.

Of course, I can't exactly go for a pint with any of them or watch a movie, or go to dinner or to a match, or the other things you do with friends, but even so, a lot of them I would regard as true friends.

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to reply and try to show that I'm not the only loner (obviously) thank you again. :dj:

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