4chan has taught me how people are. Why people act the way they do, and what people really want. I've noticed these things in everyone I know for a few years now.

Incidentally, this is also the reason I frequently consider suicide.

you summed it up op
4chan is honest it can help u see the world as it really is
but dont get to upset - dont let it affect YOU

4chan helped me realize I like wearing girl clothes.

My life has been awesome ever since.

Bad:
>drawing a blank here
Good:
>found out that a lot of people stand up to wipe their asses
>realise a lot of men want the cock despite self-identifying as straight
>feel like part of a community as i sit in bed listening to psytrance, smoking weed and browsing /r9k/ and /b/

God bless 4chan.

Bad
>introduced me to assholes
>made me self-conscious
>made me fear my fellow man
Good
>introduced me to gfur
>made me confident
>made me love my fellow man (homo)

>>2385947
>gfur
>good

BAD:
>I spend most of my free time here (not that I'd be spending it doing something productive since I have no friends but still)

GOOD:
>numb to emotion and gore
>made me look on certain things realistically
>helped me get /fit/

BAD
none
GOOD
entertainment, new ideas and new views on different topics, and fa material

>people saying they're numb to emotion
>feel threads...feel threads everywhere

BAD:
Takes up a little too much time
Not something normal people should be on, won't admit it (except to other guys that admit to it)
Just a little pedophilia developing

GOOD:
Opened my outlook
Built my confidence, I strive to not be an average /b/tard
Exposed me to others' views
Feel like it made me a little more interesting, by learning new shit

>>2386034
I find I'm generally numb to excitement and other "positive" emotions while being sensitive to depression and similar negative feelings

>aw shit what a sensitive faggot

>>2386034
They're the cancer.
I don't even feel fear tbh. Yesturday was a 20 second earthquake and the whole building was shaking. I didn't even give a fuck. Not sure if this is a good thing but I'm sure I'll be able to handle life without primitive instincts and feelings controlling me.

bad:
- lackadaisical toward murder, gore, cp.
- bored with memes once my non-site-frequenting friends get excited about them

good:
- not as freaked out by gore, could come in handy in a medical situation
- perfect place to exercise my urges to irritate people without negative results
- realize that most of the social challenges that I've figured out and gotten over is much more common than I had thought.

BAD
nothing
GOOD:
Showed me that there's other people like me
strong minded
unlimited fap works

>>2386068
That's teenage angst. If you're over 17 then you're behind the curve.

Bad:
/b/ took my social life away
/v/ took my closest friends away
/mu/ made me into an elitist hipster faggot
/r9k/ took my motivation and aspirations away, leaving me an empty, depressed shell of my former self

Good:
Entertains me when I'm bored.

Fuck you 4chan. Fuck everything you've done to me.

Bad:
-I'm even more so prone to feeling sick at gore. Still can't overcome that fear. Dunno if it's 4chan related, though.

-/a/ continually nails into my head and reminds me that I will never meet the girl I wish to find.

-I'm extremely self conscious now.

Good:
-I've met a lot of people IRL who happened also be channers, made extremely strong friendships with them.

-It's a place where I can actually say whatever I wish without being penalized.

-It's.. home-y? It's hard to explain, it's just a website dedicated to losers like ourselves, but I have such fun times here.

>Bad
Made me think I'm less attractive than I really am (shallow assholes)
Wasted plenty of time I could have used to do something productive

>Good
Numbed me to things like gore/rape/disease/famine
Helped me improve my grammar
Let me meet a few friends

There has been bad, but it's insignificant so I won't list it.

GOOD:
>Get to interact with a diverse group of people.
>Find new hobbies/interests.
>Feel a sense of belonging.
>Meet other people who feel fucked by the system.
>Have a place where I can vent or troll without fear of dropping social status (the power of anon)
>Lots of laughs.

Most of this is from /r9k/. I've really felt like you guys are a second family to me, or at least a group of close friends. It makes me feel better about the world in general.

BAD
>I have realized my purposes are sex, maintaining attractiveness, cooking, and cleaning. No matter what I do with my life, I must conform to conventions or risk deviancy.
>Became paranoid of being doxed. Don't want to make internet friends or friends at all.
>Upset me numerous times at underage b& thinking, religious extremists and pedophiles

GOOD
>Don't feel as alone when seeing feels I relate to
>Made me realize sex is overrated
>(?)Entertainment from people who are bigger failures compared to myself
>/adv/ gave me tips on how to behave and dress properly for an interview

bad
>no emotion just logic
>lack of respect for anything
>removed myself from the femanons in my life
GOOD
>EVERYTHING ABOVE IN THE BAD SECTION
>i can now show my hate for everything without the police hauling me off.

Bad:
I can't leave
I can't stop looking at porn
Many of you are not correct, or are trolling

Good:
Uhh I save a lot of images, learned some shit along the way

BAD:
>somewhat less sensitive to gore/porn/whatever
>waste way too much of my time
>grammar, spelling, writing and conversational abilities have gone out the window
GOOD:
>Found a quality forum for sports discussion
>Can find anything I want whenever I want
>Met the Peruvian wunderkind

>>2386192
>no emotion
>hate

>>2385502
GOOD:
>emotionally numb
>self-aware
>easily able to dismiss thoughts of suicide
BAD:
>demonstrated the depth of depravity of all sorts of dire and delusional degenerates

>>2385916
>listening to psytrance, smoking weed
These match.
>browsing /r9k/
This does not match the former two.
>browsing /b/
Where's the sense of community there? The drugs must have fried your brain.

bad
>very pessimistic
>must hide powerlevels

good
>dont trust most people and governments
>have an EXTREMELY small circle of friends
>never buy video games pirate only
>stockpiling for the SHTF event in our near future
>handyman
>recently built up defenses for my house

inb4 none of those things are good

>>2386608
you realize by pirating games you're hurting the PC game industry as a whole. It's fine if you just want to pirate one or two here or there but to pirate every single one is terrible

>>2386608
How does pirating games associate with 4chan?

BAD
>became super perverted
>now have a tendency to wallow is my depression
>suspicious of white people
>lost all hope for humanity
>spend all my spare time watching animu
>addicted to fapping and porn
>found a love for dark humour
>becoming more and more jaded with the world
>misogynist
GOOD
>sometimes anon can be such awesome bro
>I can keep up with latest tech/comic/anime shit
>from the various sex related stuff I've read on this site I'm pretty sure I'll be godly in the sack
>found out I actually had a fairly sizable dick

>numb to emotion
What do you mean numb to emotion?
Do you mean a lack of sympathy?

/mu/tant here, so mine's not quite typical.
Bad
>think far too many thoughts in greentext
>always want to argue in greentext and imply
>waste excessive amounts of time
Good
>discovered vast amounts of new music
>expanded my musical tastes
>gave me a broader scope of what can make music "good"
>learned just how subjective taste can be
>instead of getting angry, learned to just let things go (one of the greatest lessons /mu/ can teach anyone)

I can't say I've really gained much from any other boards except maybe /lit/ and /tv/

GOOD:
>Found a place where my evil side can grow and develop
BAD:
>Found a place where my evil side can grow and develop

good:
>introduced me to kpop. oh god, it's like a fucking burlesque show with teenagers. thank you so goddamn much.

bad:
>made me way more self-hating about having asperger's.
>inb4 this turns into an aspie hate thread at the mere mention of it.

Bad
>time consuming
>fueled racist tendencies
>actually think things like "2012, x, ishhygyydiggy"
>made me a bit of a misanthrope
Good
>actually pick up news stories and knowledge from fellow anons
>sense of community
>helped me realize the true nature of humanity, in an albeit strange way

pretty much, once you've seen 4chan, nothing can suprise you anymore.

4chan person: "oh, look, that guy's raping a dead horse and cutting it in half. interesting. oh well."

normal person: "OH GOD WHAT IS THAT GUY DOING TO THAT THING... OH JESUS CHRIST!!! THAT MAN IS INSANE! STAY AWAY FROM MY KIDS!!"

>>2386964
you used "albeit" wrongly there. the word's meaning is closely tied to the word "although." so the correct way to say what you said would be:
>helped me realize the true nature of humanity, albeit in a strange way

BAD:
>Now want to be a girl
>Increased racism
>Distracted from real life
GOOD:
...

>>2387076
>themoreyouknow.gif

Why is everyone listing insensitivity to gore / emotions as a bad thing?

Good
>Sometimes it's funny or stupid enough to make me laugh hysterically to tears. I don't laugh that way often.

Bad
>Niggers. I've never used the word seriously, but now whenever I see a black man I can only think of nigger and the endless jokes/hate of 4chan.

BAD
>Spend a little too much time here
>Made me ambivalent to most emotions which makes people a little scared of me in conversation. I hide it well
>Kinda slowly making me a pedo
GOOD
>Taught me the truth about people (give someone a mask etc)
>Taught me the truth about females
>Showed me what not to be
>Taught me skepticism, good humour, the nature of trial-by-fire and the importance of relying on yourself

GOOD:
>Sense of community, understanding.
>Fun to be part of a greater knowledge base.
>Funny and smart.
>Desensitized.
BAD
>Leeks into thoughts and behavior.
>My subconscious basically acts like /b/. As in, it trolls me more than it used to.
>Made the word nigger less funny.

I thought that it was okay that a friend of mine sent me pictures of her bare ass. My other friends are either polyamarous freaks or hardcore christfags, so I didn't get any helpful advice from any of them. After discussing it with the majority of /adv/, I can now see why I was being a douche and that the other girl obviously doesn't have respect for my relationship. Thanks for making me feel like a cheating dick then, 4chan.

>>2387102
Because the entirety of western culture is based upon the idea that emotions are real, beautiful, and an integral part of the human experience.

BAD:
>self conscious as fuck
>belittle myself constantly
>realize how mean everyone really is

GOOD:
> fap material
> taught me how to make friends
> numb to gore
> sense of community

>>2385502
That pretty much says it for me OP. I feel that 4chan is kinda like walking into Dante's Inferno; it feels like hell, you learn a lot of shit including shit you never wanted to have to know, then hopefully you make it out on the other side a better person.

Suicidal thoughts indeed, young adults are prone to existential crisis as it is. I think having suicidal thoughts and existential crises are actually a good sign that you're heading in the right direction. If you made it to twenty and were still dumb enough to be ignorant of the world's failures I don't think you're a very good person if I can be very blunt.

I've been on this website since I was a freshman in high school, in 2007. The first years was magical; so many things I would have never found out about in my suburban bubble I called life. I was a total faggot before 4chan made me go out of my way to not be a little bitch that can't deal with the world. A video called the faces of death or something like that really changed my perspective and I would like to say I am more self-aware of my limitations thanks to it, along with a bunch of gore on /b/. Then, some faggot in switzerland (or something like that) started spamming up 4chan and I began looking away from /b/, I tried 7chan and such, which lead me to r9k/other boards of this site which gave me at least basic knowledge in almost every subject available. I'm proud to say I didn't take part in any of the boxxy shit back when I started and lurked like a good newfag.

Cons: I think everyone around me is a faggot and I miss the old 4chan.
Pros: I have basic knowledge in everything and I have hobbies and interests. I'm pretty cool and I learned how to make/save money thanks to plenty of info threads back in the day. I'm richer than most of my peers.

I was the way I am before I found 4chan.

BAD:
>nothing. I was shitty when I began browsing, but it sort of made me hate things a little more. for example; i'm a little more passionate about the things that i used to hate. i even hate things that i didn't hate before (plebs, /mu/.)
GOOD:
>made me more of a realist
>learned a lot from various boards
>taught me how to argue very well
>got a lot of fap material for when the internet goes out
>i still think for myself because i'm not a weak-minded idiot.

BAD:
>Made me watch too much porn that got out of control and I ended up having to quit it
>aggravated my pedo tendencies
>wasted WAY too much time here
>/a/, /jp/ so weeaboos

GOOD:
>collectively been my only friends and have had many good times. Had way more fun here than the alternate which was being forced to some shitty clubs
>gave me advice got me through hard times
>had many lulz with like minded trolls
>teaches you how to live an introverted life in an extroverted society

BAD:
>intensified my hatred towards women holy fuck
>its a fucking time vampire
GOOD:
>Found people with similar interests and humor like mine.
>More aware of the world. /Pol/ helped me in so many ways.
>More confident, outgoing. Realize people are mostly full of shit and now I can see through their lies.
>My empathy is more reserved for those who deserve it. I had to much before.
>Before I came here I was very naive and sheltered and since then I've seen some terrifying shit on this site and all the other sites it's lead me too. It's made me better in this regard I believe.


also,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y9f8849Geo

>>2386192
this post was from hours ago, but I know that feel.
I only feel hate, scarcely any emotions other than hate. Everything has also become so logical, I never base things on anything but logic. I see everything coldly and logical because of 4chan. Perhaps I would've came to this naturally, as I've always somewhat thought in this way, but 4chan threw gas on that fire.