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Mr Brown, now 24, dropped out of college and spent the following years at home - gaming, in chat rooms and reading about politics.
He became almost entirely immersed in an online world of "echo chambers" where he felt the pull of extremism and cybercrime.
Mr Brown, from Ashton, Cornwall, says he became increasingly "eccentric" and eventually lost touch with reality.
"I can count the number of times I went out in a seven-year period on both of my hands," he says.
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He finally decided to seek help and ended up taking part in the Real Ideas Organisation's (RIO) Game Changer programme, which aims to encourage young people to develop skills and overcome any issues they face before getting them into work, education or training.
7 years. Not bad. Can anyone beat that?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @02:04PM (3 children)
Welcome to XXI century.
And what I found, especially after certain age (30s), talking with people not about work is highly outdated and in last decade became socially unacceptable. From experience: One half will try to fraud you (males), the other (females) will file a complaint about molesting.
We are nothing but robots, only carbon based, not silicon. Better stay with a full arse in computer, especially if someone's appearance is not in accordance with modern Photoshop standards.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @03:55PM
You sound like a weirdo.
Start making positive changes in your life.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @05:25PM (1 child)
Perhaps if you don't talk about your bank account numbers or your penis, you won't have those problems.
I regularly talk about things that aren't work at work when time permits and I've never had problems with those things.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @07:02PM
Fortunately mentality in my country is such that these are not a good subjects to talk. As well as salaries.
There is a cultural difference between countries, and really, it may change not after airplane travel around half of the world, but when crossing a neighbor country's border. Let me go with an example I experienced: With people in one country you can talk freely about projects done in a free time and it is normal, everyone does something, then you go home and boom - if the project does not provide instant money you suddenly are an unproductive lazy arse.