The Friend zone made REAL

[Vern5]

Every now and then, a thread will pop up in this very forum about the friend zone. Sure, the thread might not have "the friend zone" in the title but if its a story about a guy wanting a girl who doesn't want him, the friend zone will inevitably appear.

Something just snapped in my head because I got to thinking: what if the Friend Zone was an actual physical space? What would this zone look like? How would you even begin to describe such a social phenomenon as a fully realized area?

Perhaps the Friend zone looks a lot like District 9 but instead of Prawns there are dejected man-children scurrying about the rubble, forever looking confused and bewildered by the events that brought them to that terrible place.

Escapists, if you suddenly found yourself in the "Friend Zone", what would it look like to you?

 

[Phishfood]

I'm not sure what it would look like before, but after 5 minutes of me being there I imagine me getting really pissed off and sticking forks in people before walking off into the sunset.

Hrm. Not sure what that says of my state of mind when thinking of the "friend zone" so make of that what you will.

 

[Snowy Rainbow]

I think it would be a nice place; lots of friends and nice people abound.

 

[The_Yeti]

Wall to Wall White with blue poke-a-dot patterns.

 

[ZeroMachine]

You mean... this?

 

[Thaluikhain]

I'd imagine it's full of statues people have erected to themselves in memorial for them being Nice Guys(ish) whom the universe has overlooked and not furnished with hot playthings.

 

[Cheesus333]

I imagine it as a red circle drawn in the ground with a load of people crammed in. But they are all just stood around like in the Scrubs video above.

But with more crying and self-pity. Just being realistic about it, I think that would be inevitable.

 

[Macgyvercas]

You mean... this?

Damnit! I was so going to post that!

Ahh well, at least there's pretzels.

 

[The Funslinger]

Probably this:

I mean getting pissy about such a thing won't get you anywhere, will it?

 

[mad825]

There is an physical space, It called the "personal space" in psychology by E.Hall in which he calls the "bubble".

 

[Griffolion]

Every now and then, a thread will pop up in this very forum about the friend zone. Sure, the thread might not have "the friend zone" in the title but if its a story about a guy wanting a girl who doesn't want him, the friend zone will inevitably appear.

Something just snapped in my head because I got to thinking: what if the Friend Zone was an actual physical space? What would this zone look like? How would you even begin to describe such a social phenomenon as a fully realized area?

Perhaps the Friend zone looks a lot like District 9 but instead of Prawns there are dejected man-children scurrying about the rubble, forever looking confused and bewildered by the events that brought them to that terrible place.

Escapists, if you suddenly found yourself in the "Friend Zone", what would it look like to you?

It would probably look a lot like the world I see now.

Edgy.

 

[OliverTwist72]

Everyone would be angsty and ready to go off at the slightest hint. All those bottled up hormones. I'm assuming it would look like Tikrit, a war zone where all the women are wearing burqas.

 

[Brandon237]

I imagine it as a red circle drawn in the ground with a load of people crammed in. But they are all just stood around like in the Scrubs video above.

But with more crying and self-pity. Just being realistic about it, I think that would be inevitable.

Almost this, except the red circle is imaginary and only people's perception of it would be what is keeping them in it and not going on to live life, forget about it or go for it anyway, seeing a relationship as more than friends but still based on a friendship is a philosophy that makes sense to me.

 

[Erana]

I have no idea. I mean, its invisible to everyone except for the people who make it up and apply it on themselves.

 

[Jordi]

It's a room filled with lots of nice guys where every once in a while a girl will come in to talk about her problems, get a hug and cry on someone's shoulder.

This concept gets a little complicated when you consider that every woman[footnote]I guess it could apply to men too, but Ladder Theory [http://www.laddertheory.com/] says that this is only for women.[/footnote] basically has her own "friend zone" and that guys can be in multiple zones at once, or in one woman's friend zone and in another's "potentially-more-than-friends zone".

 

[instantbenz]

Likely bleak and abysmal. Dark and friendless. A location in which pure depression is issued from the rubble around your lonely ass.

strangely poetic

 

[Maxtro]

A dreary world devoid of color. Every now and then a girl shows up and everything gets bright and poppy. Then she leaves, the light fades and sadness returns.

 

[Dan From Aus]

Beetlejuice waiting room.