do you think joining habbo/x has benefitted you

[Gina]

yeah so was asking a few people in hxhd so thougth id make a thread
im sure theres been one or a few or whatever like this before but idk have another
do you think joining habbo/x has benefitted you or idk wrecked your life or w.e
for me id say its benefitted me like ok sure i sit at home doing whatever sat on my computer but then on here i met people who are obv gay/trans/straight idk whatever really one person from here i speak to a lot still on facebook and they crossdress like if it wasnt for habbox id probably think negatively of people who are gay or who cross dress or idk really
in my year a lot of people still make jokes saying thats so gay or just dont like gays in general and i'd probably be ignorant and just be the same as them because without habbox i dont know anyone whos gay
there are things ive learnt from it too like xxMATTGxx; i dont even want to bring it back up but i am an idiot who knows nothing lol and its taught me things on here
and without habbox I'd Probably Still Be Typing Like This To All My Friends :)))))))))))
i wouldnt know the difference between words like worst/worse there/their idk theyre things ive learnt from habbox :P obviously id learn it eventually irl but uno
but then there are people who get addicted and quit their jobs for habbo/x *coughs* or failed exams or whatever because instead of revising theyre up until 3am finding decent 2 for 1c furni
hi wbu bye

[Yawn]

im sure ppl would say its ruined my life but idc i cant think of any better way to spend my free time :Innocent:

[kitten]

hasnt affected my life at all really lol. i just come on when im bored n got nothing else to do

[Futz]

I think the internet destroyed me emotionally

[IzzyUhh]

I think its benefitted me a lot, it gives me something to do and I actually enjoy it and mpst people may think its sad but its better than doing things people my age are out doing. Ive met lovely people and friends and some id hate to lose contact with

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[dbgtz]

Without Habbo/Habbox I wouldn't have ever coded, done pixel art and met various people. However, I may have actually had a social life from the age of 10-16 and could have more advanced skills elsewhere (and also would have probably done a hell of a lot better at school). Overall I'm not sure if it benefitted me or not, but I wouldn't choose differently.

[Inseriousity.]

well i met rosy here so yep big benefits.
apart from that though I haven't really learnt anything here I couldn't have learnt elsewhere. mostly good bunch of people here though :)

[Derrener]

i wouldnt say its benefited me in anyway but I do enjoy Habbo(x) and i've met some really nice people like -Nick; Americanozz; and NerdyNummies;

[Absently]

i think habbo ****** me up majorly in the sense that i became so addicted to the game that i became really unsociable and stopped hanging out with a lot of my friends. like back when i was a lot younger i would rather sit at home instead of going out.

obviously as everyone already knows, habbox has benefited me so much considering i met pasta; on here and ended up meeting up, getting together and have lived together 3 years now... haha.

[xxMATTGxx]

I have met people on here that I would consider friends for life really. Some may call it sad but I would call the people in this group better friends than anyone I have came across in school or college. I would say I have learned quite a few things on the way while being active on here but I could have also learned that from other places as well. I wouldn't personally say Habbox/Habbo has ruined my life at all really but has helped it.

Also Yuxin; - Don't worry about it, you are a great person and don't let anyone tell you anything different.

[lemons]

habbox no
habbo yes :)

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the people i would consider my best friends are mostly from habbo

[Kyle]

It's certainly expanded my mind, made me realise what is most important in life and helped me to realise that everybody has something worth sharing.

[!x!dude!x!2]

I made some really good friends on here. so its really beneficial to me

[Brad]

Eh,
Habbo has messed my social life when I was younger. Too be perfectly honest- the effect that it had on my childhood between 2005-2009 was the worse thing ever. I blame it on my one friend for introducing me to habbo back in 2004.
I felt like I chose habbo over hanging out with my friends, and it made me feel very irrational and have a short temper. And for habbox, well- From January to now, I can say that it hasn't done anything yet. I have a balance between my social life and habbo(x) life. I try to keep my social life on the larger end of the scale.

[BeardedBuilders]

I think it's benefited me because i've made quite a few new friends in a short amount of time - but not drastically.

[wixard]

i have a perfectly normal balance of rl and internet in my opinion, and love everyone ive met irl here so it's definitely benefited me

[FlyingJesus]

I don't know the extent to which it's benefitted or held me back because this is the only path I've taken :P but quite impressively I've been a Habbo longer than I haven't been one, started in 2001 aged 11 and now obv it's 13 years later so been Habz for more than half my life bet you wish you could be this cool

[-:Undertaker:-]

I don't know the extent to which it's benefitted or held me back because this is the only path I've taken :P but quite impressively I've been a Habbo longer than I haven't been one, started in 2001 aged 11 and now obv it's 13 years later so been Habz for more than half my life bet you wish you could be this cool

I may just have to quit within the next year or two just to avoid that 'achievement' myself. :P

[Jurv]

i'd say its definitely benefited me. this sounds super cringey but i guess it's helped me discover who i am and helped me understand a lot of stuff. i think without it i'd be way more judgemental or at least it'd take me longer to understand certain stuff. like just from peoples posts on here over the years i've been able to understand depression and self harming way more than i would have elsewhere and that's just one example

but er yeah it probably hasn't helped with school/college work but i wouldn't blame that on habbo(x) because i'm 100% sure without it i'd find something else to waste my time on because i'm such a douche. also made some fab friends from different places in the uk or even the world which is pretty cool, something i wouldn't have done otherwise

[Gina]

oh without habbox i would prob be really shy lmao before i became a dj i refused to speak irl and idk id care so much about everythingggg then when i first got into hxl obv there was like 100 listeners at the time so idk it helped a lot
like now idc bout speak in public and i'll get on the bus and speak to the person next to me or i'll speak to people at the bus stop and just speak infront of my school or whatever idk idc at all but before becoming a dj i wouldnt lol
i mightve done that anyway without habbox but it def helped lmao

yeh same as cameron for the work stuff toooo
p.s thank you Drew;

[Jordy]

Like a few posters in this thread, getting addicted to Habbo is my only real regret in life, from 2005-10 I voluntarily chose to have virtually no social life as Habbo took over my life. I've very little to show for it other than wasting a large portion of my childhood which I'll never get back. I guess I enjoyed it at the time though which sort of counts for something, certainly met some fantastic people on there and here.

Interesting how it seems to have some very positive and some very negative effects for people on here.

[Alkaz]

In some respects it has made things worse for me. I was doing my A levels at the time I was AGM (Content) and I definitely let my studies slip which ultimately put me a couple of years behind my friends. On the flip side of that, doing other things whilst my 'friends' were off at university, I went to college and met some amazing people, of which most of them I feel will be friends for life. It's had it's ups and downs and you can't dwell on hindsight but I don't really regret anything. Joining Habbo/x hasn't added anything to my life, however the circumstances that came from it have.

[lRhyss]

It''s been great :D

[God]

Think it has, I kinda stopped hanging out with friends irl, and at the hight of it I was probs on habbo 6hrs str8 every day, and like 14hrs in the summer. Now I've kinda spaced things out and retaught myself to be social irl. So alls been good. Hangin out with people a bit more.



One thing it has done is lead me to know that theyre are more LGBT people than I thought. I thought maybe 1 in a million, but kinda makes me feel better to know its not some rare thing. (some survey conducted stated its like 3/10 r lgbt, I honestly think maybe 1/10 now)

[Gina]

Also Yuxin; - Don't worry about it, you are a great person and don't let anyone tell you anything different.
awwww bless you thank you omg
i never really mentioned the negatives opps
i have another positive though
lit the people ive spoken to are fab too there are things i tell people on here thatd i wouldnt dream of telling people irl like i know something i spoke to tom about i wouldnt dream of telling anyone else lmao
and then there are people who in all honesty idk what id do like FlyingJesus; is honestly like a brother to me and hes there for me when i need someone and idk its nice to know or when im having trouble or whatever he'll help me/speak to me surei can speak to people irl but the one friend i genuinely trust irl is some vamps lover who wont take anything seriously :P id rather have someone i can actually speak to with them offer advice lmao and i feel bad because i cant even do that back
and then theres Sharon; who i obv met from on here but i feel as if shes my mum (even if theres only 11 months diff) and she'll rage to me about whatever or speak to me and idk we'll go through phases of not even speaking but when we do speak she makes me v happy and i care bout her lol like i havent even met her or whatever but she worries me so much like when i got a phonecall from her the other month and she was crying like i wanted to cry too omg sharon when you read this you are my favfavfavfav lyl xo

hi sorry i had to put that
then obv the negatives
i'll love speaking to people so much that i'll be up until 4am speaking to people that keep me happy and then wake up for school the following morning thinking bobba why the bobba did i do that and then suffer throughout school or i'll prob be one of them people who go through looking for a sapphire duck through credit shops til 2am lmao then it'll distract me from everything that needs to be done
i had an essay due on saturday but i was too busy doing stuff for eurovision that i didnt even remember lemons; Evanora;
but then thinking about it
if i had the chance to go back and just skip past habbo like never had the option to join it or say it wasnt here
i'd join it again lol its def had negative things but theres been so many positives i wouldnt even change it
i wouldnt say its killed my social life i just generally dont want to go out
i can stop and sya i want to go to the park and do that without an issue
hasnt made me anti social either i will sit on the bus and speak to the stranger sat next to me or go to an athletics tournament and speak to all the people there idk idc about that stuff lol it certainly hasnt wrecked my life or whatever just helped kill a part i was already killing myself lol i didnt help myself at all with my work

hi to sum this up:
ive been rubbish to myself but met people who are fantastic and Sharon; ilyl xo

hey this was quite a long post
be proud guys they dont come around very often
can only remember doing 4 like this before and 2 were in hxl forum

i only mentioned 2 people i nthat people post but you're all fab but theyre my 2 like idk big fav things

[Drunq]

Habbox and Habbo have made me meet people I wouldnt know of. Socializing has been easier as well and have learnt alot of things from both and real life stuff from it. Came close to people I wouldn dream of!!! Cassiieee; although we have fall outs lol. I generally find it hard to socailize irl. School wasnt where I wanted to be ye you kno that!!

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[Yawn]

omg i dont think its held back my social life, sure there have been times where ive stayed in and played habbo instead of be with friends but i think thats just me being anti social and even without habbo i probs wouldve stayed in that day anyway!!!!! the same as i said for studying i would find something else void my time not studying instead of habbo lol


oh without habbox i would prob be really shy lmao before i became a dj i refused to speak irl and idk id care so much about everythingggg then when i first got into hxl obv there was like 100 listeners at the time so idk it helped a lot
like now idc bout speak in public and i'll get on the bus and speak to the person next to me or i'll speak to people at the bus stop and just speak infront of my school or whatever idk idc at all but before becoming a dj i wouldnt lol
i mightve done that anyway without habbox but it def helped lmao

yeh same as cameron for the work stuff toooo
p.s thank you Drew;
thats gr8

[iGenius]

Kinda have to be honest here, I really don't think it has. When you look at the tasks the different departments do, yes they help to make Habbox the best site going, but when you take out one single persons job in the department and look at that as a whole, no it hasn't benefited me. How could it?

I'm 21 years old, and I'm a Head DJ for an online radio station which is apart of a website which I cannot tell anyone about. So aside from having fun whilst DJing, meeting some really cool people, and stressing about meeting minimums, keeping my team in check, etc, I see no benefit, other than pleasure.

Sorry if this isn't what you wanted to read ;)

[Daltron]

It provides/d me a forum to discuss all things Habbo after the removal of Habbo Forums so I appreciate that. I'm certainly not addicted but I enjoy posting here when I have spare time.

The hardcore community here is very non-inclusive I have noted and that's probably why I am not AS addicted to these forums as I was the habbo forums like answers and chapter. I'm just here to talk post about Habbo and other things here or there but not in an inclusive nature

[buttons]

ehhhhhh


bad in that it made me think only internet people were nice and rl people couldnt be so i stuck to internet people only when its mostly been the exact opposite!!! bad that people on here, ~friends~, made me aware of all the apparent flaws i have which no-one irl ever mentioned????????? cheers guys

good; learnt better grammar, especially as u get attacked for not using proper 'your/you're' etc lmao. cool and good people who have restored my faith in humanity and also given me different perspectives to life. most importantly, finding someone who makes me look forward to the future and everyday

[Kyle]

Kinda have to be honest here, I really don't think it has. When you look at the tasks the different departments do, yes they help to make Habbox the best site going, but when you take out one single persons job in the department and look at that as a whole, no it hasn't benefited me. How could it?

I'm 21 years old, and I'm a Head DJ for an online radio station which is apart of a website which I cannot tell anyone about. So aside from having fun whilst DJing, meeting some really cool people, and stressing about meeting minimums, keeping my team in check, etc, I see no benefit, other than pleasure.

Sorry if this isn't what you wanted to read ;)
perhaps it would benefit u more if u posted more :)


It provides/d me a forum to discuss all things Habbo after the removal of Habbo Forums so I appreciate that. I'm certainly not addicted but I enjoy posting here when I have spare time.

The hardcore community here is very non-inclusive I have noted and that's probably why I am not AS addicted to these forums as I was the habbo forums like answers and chapter. I'm just here to talk post about Habbo and other things here or there but not in an inclusive nature
"hardcore community" ? what do u mean?

[Daltron]

noun: hardcore
1.
the most active, committed, or doctrinaire members of a group or movement.

noun: community
1.
a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

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I think it's a lot to do also with my failure (and this probably goes for other newish members too) to interact a lot in spam for example with other members.

One example, when I took part in Habbox: The Mole everyone knew everyone and was sort of cliqued together but I didn't really know anyone bar one person. Half blamed on the non-inclusive community, half blamed on my failure to try and interact. If that makes sense.

but OT I am content with with what I post and think joining this forum has benefited me.

[Kyle]

noun: hardcore
1.
the most active, committed, or doctrinaire members of a group or movement.

noun: community
1.
a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
the idea that people are doctrinaire in respect to habbox is pretty funny :P
where on the forum do u feel most comfortable posting?

[Daltron]

the idea that people are doctrinaire in respect to habbox is pretty funny :P
where on the forum do u feel most comfortable posting?

Habbo, General Discussion

[karter]

by hardcore he means me

[Absently]

ehhhhhh


bad in that it made me think only internet people were nice and rl people couldnt be so i stuck to internet people only when its mostly been the exact opposite!!! bad that people on here, ~friends~, made me aware of all the apparent flaws i have which no-one irl ever mentioned????????? cheers guys

good; learnt better grammar, especially as u get attacked for not using proper 'your/you're' etc lmao. cool and good people who have restored my faith in humanity and also given me different perspectives to life. most importantly, finding someone who makes me look forward to the future and everyday
funny you mention that, it's literally same for me, i've had a few people pick on certain aspects of me off of here and still bother me, even as much as i try not to let

[lawrawrrr]

I said this yesterday when Gina asked, Habbox has completely changed my life, I discovered graphics because of being here, through that I've just developed those skills and now both of my real life jobs are to do with graphics, one as a graphics designer and one as a subeditor (designing page layouts for a newspaper, which came from graphics turning into graphics manager at student media, turning into design & layout).

I got involved in my student media because I loved being News manager so much, and that's done amazing things and given me fantastic opportunities too, really got my name out there if I wanted to go into that, too.

And then you've got the freelance stuff I'm actually building a proper portfolio too, making logos, website designs (less of this though), and copywriting which I do for a number of different clients now, which basically sprouted from being a Content Designer & subsequent manager.

So yeah, Habbox has literally changed everything about my life's plan, as well as making some really good friends who helped me through some extremely tough times in real life. It's also helped me learn to cope with certain types of people and grow a bit of a thicker skin, as I used to let everything get to me. I'm much better now. I swear.

I used to feel quite awkward about talking about Habbox, but I do speak about it now, because I've got a lot to be proud of during my time here. Anyone who has put time and effort in here shouldn't feel ashamed about saying it on their CV or in interviews, work is work, no matter where for. You can make almost anything relevant in some way, and you can always say a "popular childrens' forum and website" if you don't want to elaborate that much. I've named Habbox in my last two interviews however, even provided my best Habbox graphics (including the badges I designed which are on the Habbo client, used by Sulake) because it just shows you what you can do.

It's emotionally draining at times and I wish I didn't put so much time & effort in @Yupt (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=69157); keeps telling me off for working too hard :() but I am super proud and happy about what I've managed to do and who I've become because of it.

[Storking]

hasnt affected my life at all really lol. i just come on when im bored n got nothing else to do

yah same, neither habbo nor habbox benefit me but they aren't detrimental either

I guess playing habbo has taught me to type without looking at the keyboard (something people seem amazed at in public lol)

people have to accept the internet is just the internet and not get absorbed into what happens and what people say to you on habbox or habbo. I guess its difficult for some people to differentiate between the two but it's really simple; if people are being rude then close the window and fly away to real life. the internet, including habbo is a vicious place sometimes

[-Amyy]

I think it has definitely benefited me in a number of ways. I have also made some great friends who I hope I never lose contact with

[Rachel]

It didn't ruin my life whatsoever. I have made friends on here and djed for my friends as well. I also keep giving support to the department I am in(HabboxLive). I had my ups and downs while being here but still enjoyed it :).

[Brad]

Reading back on my post, I think I was being a bit negative, and neglected the positive. Thinking of all the positive things that have came from habbo(x) are;
1) meeting new people (that I now talk to outside of habbo)
2) being more comfortable speaking - after economy a DJ, it was so much easier to build my self esteem.
3) learning that I actually do have a little OCD when it comes to punctuation, and spelling of words. Haha!

So there has been some benefits of habbo(x). :P