Hey Pandas, Tell Me What Made You Become A Bored Panda Member?

I was looking at the site for quite a long time and had no intention of ever becoming a member.

I started noticing the same people commenting with a similar sense of humour as me. Then one day, there was an 'Ask Pandas' that caught my eye. One of my favourite commenters had put out a plea for help. She had reached a crisis point in her life and was not in a very good way. There were very few responses and most not very helpful (it was the early days of
ask pandas).
Then she just... disappeared.

I found myself wondering what had happened (not normal for me at all), months went by. Then out of nowhere, a hilarious comment from her. I had to register to reply to her comment and let her know that I had missed her humour, we started a discussion about mental health and before I knew it she had roped me in to giving advice to others, and sharing my comments & opinions (correcting people was all my own doing).

She's gone from BP now (I keep in touch in other ways), but I decided to hang around.

i want to talk to people, and make friends:) (and also i was bored bc i got no phone:< )

i used to actually use bp for a pretty long time before i got an account. i then decided to make an account just cuz.

memes

I was bored.

I got WAY too tired of having a perfect comment and not being able to share it. To be honest I thought that even then I would still be one of the people that nobody knows, but at least few people on here have seemed to notice me, personally I like the change. :)

i typed in the word bored in google and this came up and i just liked the website

have a nice day

there were some comments i wanted to upvote

I was bored and I'm a Panda it was kismet.

I don't remember how exactly I found the site, but I read stuff on bp for like half a year before I made an account. I was lonely and bored and wanted someone to talk to.

It popped up on a random Google story feed. I clicked on it, read it, then began my descent down the rabbit hole. I found oldsters like myself all the way to HS students commenting on things that actually made me think. I came to really love this community because there's (typically) room for everyone at the table, and of all the dozens of people on here, there's only a handful who are just plain mean and they're easy enough to ignore.

Cat memes

I was using 9gag for memes, but it became a bunch of social media without memes, and an extremely toxic community. I found this, and it's way better.

I would look up stuff like “Overprotective parent stories” and found BP that way. One day I wanted to comment something because I related to the article or something. BP was my introduction to social media and I use it behind my parents’ backs because my mom doesn’t want me on social media cuz she thinks I’ll post my address and stuff…

i was searching up things i was interested in ( dumb people, amazing comments, etc ) and i kept seeing this site for things i like. i started noticing that other people could comment and i noticed that you can become a member so i joined. in other words, i kept bumping innto this site so i decided to join it

Well the short answer is… I was a very bored trash panda

welli was constantly on it but i never made an account because my mom doesnt like us using things that we can talk to ppl on. eventually, i just decided to make one. I'm currently loving it so yeah

I was on here for a while and was sick of not being able to upvote stuff and leave comments.

I was incredibly lonely as I had just started at a new school with no friends

My school district banned almost everything except for this site. I want to talk to cool and fun people. I was pretty much bored because I didn't have a phone so I couldn't contact my friends at school. Also, bp makes me feel better...sometimes...when there are no trolls, lol.