Dementia

[gamgee]

They say that socializing just ten minutes more per day will reduce your chances of getting dementia.

Does hanging out here count?

[Unclefred]

I suppose relentlessly recounting the recent past might help keep those important memories alive.

[Woods Devil]

They say that socializing just ten minutes more per day will reduce your chances of getting dementia.

Does hanging out here count?

Good question gamgee. I'm guessing it couldn't hurt but interaction with real people might be better. A knitting circle might make it worse while regular healthy discussions with friends, family and neighbors would probably be better. A circle jerk might go either way I suppose if that is your thing but don't get into one with boring dumb guys.

[gamgee]

Oxytocin is released in the brain when people hug.

[Mayaca]

They say that socializing just ten minutes more per day will reduce your chances of getting dementia.

Does hanging out here count?

Depends on who is on. If it is a radio/Steve war or talon/Harvey meltdown, it will actually kill brain cells.

[Woods Devil]

Depen who is on. If it is a radio/Steve war or talon/Harvey meltdown, it will actually brain cells.

Are you having a stroke?

[leftsdope33]

What if you already hang out with people all the time? Then you can't get dementia? Eh... OK. My granddad was very social and extraverted and he got FTD.

But yea, here would count.

[dudeman]

But yea, here would count.

Even if a certain member suffers from dementia?

[gamgee]

What if you already hang out with people all the time? Then you can't get dementia? Eh... OK. My granddad was very social and extraverted and he got FTD.

But yea, here would count.

I'm not so sure. Like with hugging, I imagine various chemicals are released with personal interaction and different synapses fired.

[Unclefred]

Oxytocin is released in the brain when people hug.

If you hug them too hard, something gets released from their pants.

[Jessica]

I meet new people everyday and hangout

[dudeman]

I meet new people everyday and hangout

Sucking truck stop dick doesn't count.

[gamgee]

If you hug them too hard, something gets released from their pants.

I wasn't talking about squeezing their guts out, fred.

[Unclefred]

I wasn't talking about squeezing their guts out, fred.

They get frail so it doesn't take much.

[leftsdope33]

I'm not so sure. Like with hugging, I imagine various chemicals are released with personal interaction and different synapses fired.

To be serious for a moment, it depends on how it is perceived. If it feels like a nice thing to hang out with online friends, it does you good. If you sit at home mumbling "I'd rather have real friends and these online people don't feel like real people even, I'm still lonely", then NO, then you don't get the positive effect from it.

I don't want to be without real life friends, but I like my online friends as well. They serve a true purpose in my life.