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Why do people post advice threads?
| Some us don't have good friends, and we just need somewhere to talk. Or maybe friends are just too close and we need an outside opinion. No one judge you on the internet, and being anonymous means there's nothing holding you back from just spilling everything.
We don't expect all the repliea will be good, but just writing about problems helps
| What's a friend?
| Sometimes it's easier to talk to a stranger since their opinion of you can't worsen much and even if it does it won't hurt you as much as losing a friend due to disagreements, if things go wrong with a stranger you just go your way and life goes on, if things go bad with friends it can hurt a lot and make things super awkward
Imagine if you ask advice about a girl/guy to your best friend but it just happens that your crush is the same as theirs...
| >>133857 My friends are idiots. Whenever i tell them about my problems they say "ohh dear don't be sad it'll all be over" after saying that they continue looking to their shitty phone and not giving a fuck. Somehow there are more honest people on the internet.
Maybe it's because you can tell your issues to a lot of people.
| I've posted an advice type thread before and a good deal of it was just the catharsis of posting about my thoughts and frustrations to the void and seeing what replies I get back. I'm not expecting anyone to solve my life struggles but they might give me a couple ideas.
| Because we're all just sad Anons who have nothing better to do. -Sad Anon
| Friends give terrible advice anyways. Like, god their advice is so bad.
| I also often post my problems asking for advice in hopes of getting funny trolls, strangely there are more people who give good advice and actually try to help than funny trolls....
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| Something I never really understood is threads where people ask for advice on life or relationships and such.
For one, why would you ask a stranger instead of a close friend?
You know there's trolls everywhere, how can you tell what's good advice and what's bad advice? On top of that, it seems like a lot of /u/sers dont even want to take the good advice that they're given.
I'm not pointing any fingers, I'm just confused and looking for a genuine explanation.