r/distantsocializing • • Jun 30 '24

Mod Post Hey RPANers - we now have a Chat Channel!

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Our Chat Channel is now open!

To get to it just click on "chats" at the top of the sub, or go to the direct link here: https://www.reddit.com/r/distantsocializing/s/uYXrja3jSY

The rules for the sub - SFW, no Doxxing, etc - still apply to the Chat Channel, but please feel free to chat about anything, SFW - especially about your favorite RPAN memories.

Comment here if you have any questions about the Chat Channel.

Happy Chatting!

The DS Mod Team.


r/distantsocializing • • 1d ago

Meta Attention Scuba divers

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Let's discuss different dive sites in the world and places where others tend to travel to on vacation. I personally love going to the Pacific and Asian areas.


r/distantsocializing • • 1d ago

Duolingo for languages and chess

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Does anybody have good experiences with Duolingo particularly for learning Spanish or for getting better at chess.


r/distantsocializing • • 1d ago

Favorite podcasts

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Mine is the Ringer's The Big Picture a movie podcast hosted by Sean Fenessy and Amanda Dobbins my personal favorite and queen of the movies


r/distantsocializing • • 2d ago

Question What's something you've picked up during all this distant socializing that surprised you?

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I've noticed I'm way better at actually listening to people now that we're talking through screens. Like, less distractions somehow? Curious if anyone else has found unexpected benefits to this whole remote socializing thing or if it's just me.


r/distantsocializing • • 2d ago

Real answers only … are you ok?

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This was a beautiful connection of humanity


r/distantsocializing • • 4d ago

Question How to socialize from coast to coast??

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Anybody have a whole life in an opposite time zone? I moved from the west coast to the east coast about a decade ago now, and it's super hard to figure out how to maintain relationships with people who are 3 hours behind.

Do you have any tips for working those things out? I have small children, so I want to have them speak with their grandparents and cousins, etc, but the timing is super difficult when our bedtime routine is starting as soon as the west coast gets home from school.

Any help is appreciated!


r/distantsocializing • • 4d ago

When applying to college what was your motivating factor or deciding factor?

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For me it was cheerleading until I got hurt and transferred to a different school post injury. I am always intrigued to learn how people decide on where to go to school though.


r/distantsocializing • • 4d ago

Reincarnated as

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If reincarnation is real what would you like to be reincarnated as? I would like to a bear or a dog owned by a loving family


r/distantsocializing • • 4d ago

Anybody have any shows they associate with Fall time and start rewatching

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For me it is Gossip Girl


r/distantsocializing • • 5d ago

New guy😎

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Hi everyone, I’m new here and will like to catch up 😊


r/distantsocializing • • 6d ago

Hey y'all

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Hello


r/distantsocializing • • 6d ago

Does anyone like birds particularly

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I saw a beautiful bright green bird today. I had never seen that type of bird before. It was very tiny but sooo pretty


r/distantsocializing • • 7d ago

19M from India, bored and looking for good conversations

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Hey everyone!

I’m 19M from India and lately I’ve been feeling pretty bored and looking for someone to have some genuinely good conversations with.

I’m open to talking about pretty much anything — college, life, movies, music, random late-night thoughts, technology, ambitions, or just completely stupid conversations 😂

I’m mainly looking for good communication and someone who actually enjoys having conversations rather than just exchanging “hey” and “wyd” every few hours.

Age doesn’t matter too much, just be around my age and chill. We can start with Reddit chat and see where the conversation goes.

If you’re also bored and looking for someone to talk to, feel free to DM me! :)


r/distantsocializing • • 7d ago

“What’s your situation right now?”

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Give me a single GIF. Show ur thoughts like a christopher Nolan movies. Without any con't text but u text a single line 😎


r/distantsocializing • • 7d ago

NFL slate yesterday

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Did anybody else find yesterday to be an overall high quality NFL slate. I thought all the 1pm and afternoons were very fun and competitive.


r/distantsocializing • • 7d ago

Beginner guitarist & cybersecurity newbie passionate about community work looking for genuine, long-term friends!

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Hey everyone! I’m looking to make genuine, long-term friends who care about personal growth, tech, and community work.

Currently diving headfirst into cybersecurity as a complete newbie and clumsily learning my first few guitar chords.

Always down to chat about everyday life, volunteer projects, creative hobbies(or connect with fellow AIESECers)so drop a msg!


r/distantsocializing • • 9d ago

What's the time at your place currently?

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r/distantsocializing • • 10d ago

What the hell do you do on a Friday night? If you don’t wanna feel lonely, but you also don’t want to make mistakes.

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r/distantsocializing • • 12d ago

Discussion What's up guys and girls

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What's up dudes just share your thoughts for today


r/distantsocializing • • 15d ago

Growing up

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Probably it’s just the usual growing up phenomenon where you lose more inner circles. Or are people actually getting that fucked? I don’t know, recently I cut ties with people that I used to respect a lot which I also considered them as my own kin. Is it really the politics, the economy, that shows the ugly side of them?

I am no saint and by the “ugly” side that I mean is referring to when things get messy, why these people just wanted to feel good about themselves by taking more than they can chew from other’s plates? I feel used, taken for granted. My ideas and my creations are becoming the very thing that they rejected and tried to dim. Just for them to apparently do the same thing themselves and hunting the credits for it. I thought these people are the nicest to keep, turns out they are the ones who tried to keep me in one place instead. I am still willing to be kind but.. it reaches the point where I’m getting more selective starting from all possible background check before anything when it comes to having new companions.

Why is it hard to have a genuine connection lately? Let alone romantic connection. The platonic ones are turning into a thriller genre nowadays. It’s saddening for me that human interaction started to become the very thing that I crave yet I avoid the most. Like there are thousands, millions like me, like you, but what the hell do you mean that it is almost impossible to have genuine human-touch to it? What even are we?

Feels like all my buttons are getting pushed to just be somewhere where I will not see the faces of the people who will trade such sacred connections into coins. Tell me, is it even more lonely up there?


r/distantsocializing • • 15d ago

Does anyone make friends IRL anymore?

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I see lots of posts about becoming more introverted with age on this sub, but I wonder sometimes if it has less to do with age and more to do with opportunity (or a lack of) to socialize.
Recently I got the opportunity to see living breathing people in the flesh, I typically don’t, I work from home. And I noticed that while it seems like a great way to foster friendships made, it seems daunting in a multitude of ways to make new friends in such a setting.


r/distantsocializing • • 15d ago

Does anyone makes friend IRL anymore?

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I see lots of posts about becoming more introverted with age on this sub, but I wonder sometimes if it has less to do with age and more to do with opportunity (or a lack of) to socialize.
Recently I got the opportunity to see living breathing people in the flesh, I typically don’t, I work from home. And I noticed that while it seems like a great way to foster friendships made, it seems daunting in a multitude of ways to make new friends in such a setting.

Any success stories out there?


r/distantsocializing • • 15d ago

I miss this question sometimes..

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"Hey, you're home, HOW WAS YOUR DAY?"

Did someone asked you about your day?

If not, it's ok

My day was like cooking in Gordon's Ramsey😅

How was your day? Everything was good?

Walls are just hearing, they are not responding 😒


r/distantsocializing • • 15d ago

Feeling dissociative

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Another month where I have cut off friends in hopes they will give me the attention I need, feel like I’m always just and extra person to meet a quota when going out to cut down costs in a group :/