Dealing with Friend Drift: Finding Connection at FriendZone
Summary
At FriendZone | Make Friends ⋅ Fun Chill Active Chat ⋅ VC Social Gaming ⋅ Memes ⋅ Nitro Emojis ⋅ Anime, we are discussing the universal struggle of drifting apart from online friends. This community-led thread explores the emotional impact of losing touch and shares advice on how to move forward, find new connections, and maintain healthy social boundaries. It is a space for members to share their experiences and support one another through the ups and downs of digital relationships.
Well.. I dunno how to start this...
I've had a lot of friends on the server for a while, and it was fun socialising in the first place. But I've rarely kept any close friends here (probably for good reason, this is Discord 🥀), not because we fight, but because we drift apart after not talking for a while. (In good cases.)
Sometimes I spend entire minutes just absentmindedly scrolling through my DMs, at convos we used to have. I remember how fun things used to be. But then we just.. didn't.
I've been a friend, a ragebaiter, a therapist, a listener, a talker. I wouldn't be the person I am now without them. I might've even made some people happy. Maybe kept them.. well, on Discord.
This is a problem in real life too. Friends drift apart. It's not that new of a discovery. I'm not special.
But they were real enough to me.
I want to ask for advice from those who have it. How do people get over this kind of thing? I'm half curious, and half.. genuinely tired. Some of my current friends have the same question, and I want to do them a favor.
You know their names??
Yeah, but I don't think it matters much anymore
Most are either unresponsive or deleted
I see
Mhm
I was gonna say grow up but i felt bad so yeah....
Tbf
I wouldn't flame you if you did 💀
It's insensitive, but somewhat true
But "grow up" can be used as a response for this as well and "certain" tendencies and thoughts too
Ok grow up
I'm sure it's that easy
You move on by first finding better ways to spend time, distracting yourself in prettier ways… and then by making new friends
I have had similar experiences with irl friends, sometimes people jsut drift apart… one way it to rey to keep contacf with them and sometimes it works, you are connected… and the other times.. u move on… by what i mentioned above
Uhhh- never get too attatched to someone? Thats just a friend? Or that secretly acts like a butthole, cause people are people, and life will happen. “Grow up” isn’t a rude form of wording- it’s just the way you take it that makes it sound rude. Cause tbf- as you grow up- you realize no one’s gonna always stick. Some might- not all.
I guess
Move on finding new people
