Plus it's harder to get the clap.

Only 10?

Sturgeon's Law also applies to people.

This article has become my mantra.

I don't have to share my whiskey.

In light of that, the rest of those reasons are all pretty trivial.

2. Less drama
Which is not to say no drama. If you are human and you live around humans you will have drama. It does not matter if you mind your own business and keep to yourself, trust me, the coonts and assholes will find you.

Kreist, don't I know it. Generally, they find you at work. Or they find your boss and biatch about how you're anti-social.

Benevolent Misanthrope: Or they find your boss and biatch about how you're anti-social.

Oh, yes. It's especially bad when you work with someone who just can't imagine that someone could not like them, yet still work effectively with them.

Guy Innagorillasuit: Sturgeon's Law also applies to people.

Sturgeon's Law applies to everything.

fark you too subby

2. Less drama
Which is not to say no drama. If you are human and you live around humans you will have drama. It does not matter if you mind your own business and keep to yourself, trust me, the coonts and assholes will find you. Being genuinely antisocial ensures that you will run into this less, which is not to say, never. Be ready for it, but going under the radar means that you probably won't have to dig more than one shallow grave per decade.

Oh so very much, THIS!

So damn true.

/isolationist

1. Other people
2. See 1
3. <Goldblum>There's no step 3</Goldblum>

I hate all of you.

I could list a hundred more reasons, but number 72 is never having to explain myself, so I won't.

Trolls not mentioned?

The less people that know about what goes on in my basement the better. I'm running out of good dump spots.

Benevolent Misanthrope: 2. Less drama
Which is not to say no drama. If you are human and you live around humans you will have drama. It does not matter if you mind your own business and keep to yourself, trust me, the coonts and assholes will find you.

Kreist, don't I know it. Generally, they find you at work. Or they find your boss and biatch about how you're anti-social.


dude. i work from HOME, and they find me.

11. Your opinion on topics really doesn't matter.
12. Neither does anyone elses.

11. You get to spend more time on Fark

Huh. This is pretty much how I live my life aleady . . .

One reason to buy a dictionary: The word is unsociable.

Reason #11: people suck.

My father-in-law thinks I'm depressed because I don't go out much. I'm perfectly happy at home with my animals rather than out trying to think of something to say to people I don't know that well and don't really care to know.

/antisocial and liking it that way
//people suck a majority of the time
///see enough people at work
////slashies

I like that list. I am gonna have to bookmark that.

That is a sad little man.

Soloing has its advantages.

Uhh, I just bought flowers yesterday not because I wanted to get laid, because my girlfriend and I just moved in together, she had to go to work mid move, and we were tired to begin with. I bought her flowers to make her feel loved and appreciated. People with anti-social behaviors are no more likely to be smart as thoes who don't. In fact most rich geniouses are very socially graceful, and the richest people are extremely social. (bill gates and warren buffett come to mind) Also, I think that if you take the look that the world is a pre-school, you are doing yourself a dis-service, but when it comes times to get things done, It's the people you know, not the people you talk down to that will help you out. It sounds like this guy just needs a big hug.

I feel like Moses on Mount Sinai.

Wow. It's all the delusions you need to successfully cope with loneliness.


/if that's not satire
//that's sad.

"The most sociable, chatty, clingy, blowhards out there, the ones who try to spend as little time alone as possible, for them being alone is the same thing as being lonely."

So true. Plus, if they're alone, they have to deal with themselves, and the vapid nothingness inside their brains. For some reason, they don't seem to like doing that.

/likes my vapid nothingness
//goes on long, long drives alone
///confuses friends. :)

katerbug72: My father-in-law thinks I'm depressed because I don't go out much. I'm perfectly happy at home with my animals rather than out trying to think of something to say to people I don't know that well and don't really care to know.

/antisocial and liking it that way
//people suck a majority of the time
///see enough people at work
////slashies

you're not that anti social if you're married.

All good reasons (and the writer has a lot of women issues), but the women part is why I wouldn't want to be anti-social. I think I've have better luck meeting women though friends/social events then as a lone wolf type. Amazing how it works like that.

You can use the bathroom with the door open.

Antisocial does not mean "not social". Look the word up.

This article reads like it was written by a 15 year-old jackass who doesn't know what "antisocial" means.

My mom is always bugging me about being anti social. This is the perfect thing to send to her.
Thank you Fark for once again giving me reasons for not socializing.

No. 13:

- you can consider the immediate aversion other people have to you a success towards the goal of isolation instead of just more evidence that you're a social failure.

EmmaLou: katerbug72: My father-in-law thinks I'm depressed because I don't go out much. I'm perfectly happy at home with my animals rather than out trying to think of something to say to people I don't know that well and don't really care to know.

/antisocial and liking it that way
//people suck a majority of the time
///see enough people at work
////slashies

you're not that anti social if you're married.

I suppose I'm not entirely antisocial but I tend to stay in rather than go out. I'm a nice person, I just don't enjoy large groups of people or parties (anymore).

katerbug72: EmmaLou: katerbug72: My father-in-law thinks I'm depressed because I don't go out much. I'm perfectly happy at home with my animals rather than out trying to think of something to say to people I don't know that well and don't really care to know.

/antisocial and liking it that way
//people suck a majority of the time
///see enough people at work
////slashies

you're not that anti social if you're married.

I suppose I'm not entirely antisocial but I tend to stay in rather than go out. I'm a nice person, I just don't enjoy large groups of people or parties (anymore).

That is just getting old my friend. I will gladly get off your lawn. But if your father in law is giving you that advice, I would recommend taking your wife out at least once a month, becuse she is biatching to her dad.

Just hear to pile on about how the writer of this crap doesn't even understand the meaning of the term "antisocial". Oh well, I could care less.

/see what I did there?

MoldyLoaf: Antisocial does not mean "not social". Look the word up.

Bah, I see you beat me to it by 12 seconds.

skinink: but the women part is why I wouldn't want to be anti-social.

The not starving to death is one of the things I really like about food.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Fark a social website, and thus the myriad of people here claiming to be "anti-social" are instead extremely social in some regard? I'm pretty sure posting here regularly violates almost all of those "rules."

/Fark parties, anyone?

/awesome book
//got me my current job

Probably the most cogent, concise, heartwarming and true piece of information I've ever read on Fark.
Thank you submitter.

Whatever you have to tell the mirror in order to cope with your lonely existence sonny.

The good thing about antisocial people, is that they rarely get to spread their genes, apart from donating sperm.

voidrunner: Uhh, I just bought flowers yesterday not because I wanted to get laid, because my girlfriend and I just moved in together, she had to go to work mid move, and we were tired to begin with. I bought her flowers to make her feel loved and appreciated. People with anti-social behaviors are no more likely to be smart as thoes who don't. In fact most rich geniouses are very socially graceful, and the richest people are extremely social. (bill gates and warren buffett come to mind) Also, I think that if you take the look that the world is a pre-school, you are doing yourself a dis-service, but when it comes times to get things done, It's the people you know, not the people you talk down to that will help you out. It sounds like this guy just needs a big hug.

Sounds like somebody has the gay.

Just kidding. But yes, on the whole I agree with you.

I do see being anti-social as being a problem when it gets out of hand. When I get home sometimes I just like to be by myself and my alone time is important to me so I don't lose it. But when it starts to become every night I know that I have to get out there and do things or I'll miss out on experiences and relationships with people.

Some of the best times I've had were when I've forced myself to go do something with people when I really just wanted to stay home and sit around in my underwear.

Plus if you just stay at home forever nothing ever gets done. The "geniuses" referred to in TFA are a minority of anti-social types. Its hard to confuse spending time alone to solve complex world problems with playing Gears of War 2 all day.

"you will have no patience for average and below-average humanity. You will see it as annoying and distracting"

This.
/I hate people

voidrunner
In fact most rich geniouses are very socially graceful, and the richest people are extremely social. (bill gates and warren buffett come to mind)

You have to be social to make lots of money. But making lots of money doesn't make you a genius. I have no doubt that Gates and Buffet are smart guys, but when i think of geniuses i think of Einstein, Newton, Da Vanci. That's what the article is getting at.