how did you find this website?

[Vic Sage]

a friend of mine, also user here, recommended it to me last summer

Wow, weird. Two friends on a site devoted to loneliness. There's a punchline in here somewhere...

 

[SophiaGrace]

I googled the words "Lonely, Forum" and this was one of the search results. I registered and the rest is history.

No. You registered TWICE, and the rest is history. lol

haha, I accept your revision of my history here on ALL, but we should also add that that I've tried to leave at least 3x without being able to stay away.

I'd be up to nearly 3 thousand posts by now if I hadn't deleted my last account. *sad face* :/

 

[Broken_Doll]

I Googled the words "forums for lonely people".

 

[Lost Soul]

I forget, I put in something, not a quote, something similar to the name of this website and it was the first one the came up.

 

[Minus]

In another area TropicalStarfish wrote ....

Back in the day, we were Numero Uno, for the search engine query: "I'm Lonely." Not anymore.

Out of curiosity, I looked and on page four of the results, I did see the Wikipedia article on the sites origins but apparently couldn't did deep enough to find the site it's self, using that search.

How are a few people finding this place?

 

[Just Games]

Just typed in lonely about seven years ago.Up it popped , went in found loads of threads , games ,people with dodgy names arguing with each other , been in and out ever since.

 

[Minus]

Just typed in lonely about fithteen years ago.

That would be about when this thread originated. As TropicalStarfish mentions, it seems to be more hidden these days,

 

[Just Games]

Apologies prone to eggaduration.I saw it fithteen years ago ,it looked a bit daunting for someone with Social Anxiety, but went in seven years ago and got a lovely reception on my introductory thread.
Why did you join ,if ok to ask Minus?

 

[Minus]

I had lost my family, my home and was soon to lose my long term employment and while I handle solitude well, it was getting to be a bit much for me.

 

[ardour]

My mother was approaching the end of her life, I was anxious, lonely, socially inexperienced, almost inarticulate and needed somewhere to aimlessly vent. Better here than reddit at least.

 

[MrLonely86]

+1 on people who googled. I did also, it was top search result.

 

[Unsigned]

I googled "I am not attracted to women my own age" and a thread on this site was near the top of the list.
Seriously, that is how I found this site.
Makes me chuckle a bit when I think about it.

 

[TheSkaFish]

I must have googled something like "I don't know how to get women to like me" or "I don't know how to get a girlfriend" or something like that.

I was 27 at the time. I'd been on another site, I had some crushes there that I was attracted to physically, that I found to be interesting people, but that I couldn't seem to push past a level of casual acquaintanceship. I couldn't seem to get noticed as a guy at all, which pissed me off, insulted/humiliated me to my core, made me feel powerless and inferior, like a victim of bad luck (all familiar phrases I've used on here many times by now, recurring feelings/themes in my life for most of the time since kindergarten), and just made me feel hurt, like I was nothing, a non-person. Meanwhile others had been flying past this level effortlessly since junior high. At least it looked that way to me.

I on the other hand had never had a relationship, a fling, even a real first kiss or holding hands.
All I had to show for myself was some random makeout sessions over years that I found myself stuck in, didn't really want to be there, and didn't know how to leave without being rude.

I was tired of this happening to me and I wanted to figure it out once and for all, so I could get it under control and move on with my life with the peace of mind that I had it under control, instead of wasting more time being kicked around by life never knowing if I was getting closer, further, or not moving at all towards being relationship material, which has always been important to me.

 

[okidoke]

I googled something like “how to cope with loneliness”.

 

[Draven]

I'm on a side quest searching for former members of Loners-Club.com

 

[TheSkaFish]

I'm on a side quest searching for former members of Loners-Club.com

That's pretty neat. Have you found any of your old homies yet?

 

[SlavicNa97]

My friend Niki recommended that for me

 

[Draven]

That's pretty neat. Have you found any of your old homies yet?

Nope. Be pretty miraculous though.