Are You Social?

Started by CaspianSun54 July 11th, 2008 9:29 AM
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Aegis

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Age 29
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Posted October 30th, 2012
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17.3 Years
Since this is more of a simple question and not a discussion (at least not yet), it should go in Other Voting Polls.

-Moved-

But outside of PC? I'd say I'm semi-social. I'm definitely not hard to go up and talk to, but I don't really go out of my way to talk to new people. But off of the internet is something completely different, I prefer to keep myself when not on the computer, except around my cousins and some family members. :x

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Age 31
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Posted June 28th, 2011
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16.8 Years
Outside of PC I am more of a lone wolf, I talk to a select few and tell the other to get away from me. I rarely even speak to anyone except if I cherish that person as a friend. Other than that, I am always by myself and I hardly even talk to my own family.
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Age 30
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Seen May 22nd, 2022
Posted November 29th, 2021
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Outside of PC, I won't say a word. If I saw any PC buddies walking around, I probably wouldn't even speak to them...I'll just wait til I'm noticed. ._.;;

And in case my pair runs by here, that includes you. I'd be too afraid. xD Sorry! ;;
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Not unless I'm with close friends...

And in case my pair runs by here, that includes you. I'd be too afraid. xD Sorry! ;;
Jeeez. I have a name, you know -.-
Just kidding :D

I'd approach you, I guess.

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Definitly not. I have severe anxiety and mild autism so I get overly paranoid around strangers and need my parents with me all the time. I just dont like strangers in rl because of various reasons pretty much involving my mild autism and Anxiety issues.

Not alot of people pay attention to me either but if someone tries to talk to me...my mind goes completely blank and I get all scared and nervous.
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Posted July 26th, 2008
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Yes...and no. It really depends on where I am at the time. I could either be really outgoing at times, and approach everyone I see out on the street, or that weird kid who hangs out by himself all the time.

...for some reason I tend to feel more social around people I already know. =/
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Plus, Pokemon just sucks anyways.

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Signomi

Age 32
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lol tl;dr post here. :[

This is a rather capricious question for me since I can be very outward and social one minute yet reserved and inhibited in another; it really depends on what my surroundings appear to be, and from them I can determine whether its safe to for me to act outside my barrier of discretion. In high school, it always seemed like I was a girl destined to be landed into either amusing and/or annoying situations with many rude and narrow-minded classmates, mainly boys who tried passing snide comments or expressing infatuation through folly (which got me in trouble on a few occasions.) It's made me keep to myself a lot of the time. Then I kept to my group of friends I made not long after, and I was never afraid of opening up to them as best as my personality could handle; that has never been an issue. We managed to get ourselves in quite a lot of hilarious situations and it's more or less brought me out of the shell I closed myself up in prior to meeting them.

Now that I'm in college, I keep in touch with a great deal of my classmates and even those back in high school. I have to say, I've learned a lot from all of them and it's greatly impacted on my will to be sociable. Like I've said already, it really just depends on my surroundings and it's usually by instinct that I can determine whether it's fine for me to be expressive or reserved. When I'm talking with someone I'm not too familiar with, then I'd probably tone down on a few areas. If someone is actually portraying themselves to me to greater extent, then of course I'd follow that action. I used to be very uncertain about the way I should act around others and it led me to being horribly cautious about the whole thing. Eventually I just started not to care so much and just act casual, it seemed that others liked it when I did. I'm very close with my neighbours and I get along pretty well with other people in this neighbourhood, so I'd say I haven't as much of an issue of being social outside as I have had in the past.

Online, I'm pretty much friendly with everyone. No matter who you are and what role you play on these forums or anywhere else on the internet, I am not afraid to approach you at all to say as much as a simple "Hello!". PC's a pretty good example of this; ever since 2005 I've gotten quite a great deal of friends and the reason for that is divided into a fair share of "They approached me and then we became friends." and "I approached them and we became friends." I don't regret this whatsoever since I'm pretty darn grateful for the friends that I have at the moment. And I know had I went about my own business without actually confronting anyone with some friendly chatter, then I probably wouldn't have been as happy as I am at the moment. So I'd say my social skills have helped out quite a lot here.

To sum this up, I can be a pretty social person when I want to be. And I certainly want to be someone whom anyone can approach for even casual chit-chat. At the moment I'm quite content with how social I am with other people both online and offline, and so far it hasn't proven itself to be much of a problem at all.

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Well sweeties, I'm very social online or offline. X3 I love talking to new people about stuff (mostly Nintendo XD) and making new friends. =3 In high school, everybody knew me for one reason or another, an it's happening again in college. XD

Gabri

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Age 29
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Posted July 2nd, 2022
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It's a bit hard to tell. Most of the times I'm totally outgoing, but other times (specially with people I don't know and/or with someone who is very popular), I am REALLY shy. There were much times that I wanted to talk to someone, but couldn't because I was too shy. This happens either online or offline.

Michii

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Posted January 22nd, 2010
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Interesting question. Well, here my answer is simply "Kind of." Why? I love making new friends and talking to people, but I have a hard time relating to others and feel shy and uncomfortable in chatting topics like the DCC thread. I never feel fully myself here, and because of it I put up a front constantly. What I mean by that is that I use bluntness and sarcasm to make myself seem tougher than I am so people can't see my true self. Blehh bad social outcast. XD;


Offline is totally talkative. I'm annoying, social, everything. I'm toning myself down as I get older, though. I don't know, I need to find a balance social wise. D:

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Saryka

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Posted July 16th, 2013
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Outside of PC, I used to be incredibly antisocial. I was (and still am) shy, and I sometimes came across as rude in my younger years. It was hard for me to make friends; I would never go up and talk to someone out of fear of rejection. As I got older, though, I became more social. When I entered high school, I started making more friends, and becoming more confident. I'm still shy, but once I'm comfortable with the people I talk to, I become a lot more loud and talkative.

Online, I'm more or less the same. XD;

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No, I'm probaly unsocial, I just never go out lol.
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Posted April 20th, 2020
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Signomi is now officially my favourite poster ever.

Anyways, moving on, I'd say that my social life has taken a dramatic turn in the last year, which is when I entered secondary school. In primary (which is a school you go to from the ages of five to twelve, just in case you Americans have a different system) I was pretty quiet. There were loads of crazy kids in my class that were into Techno (the music genre) and DJs and whatnot, stuff that I had never heard of before due to the fact that my father is a Beatles fanatic. Obviously, I was branded not cool thanks to me listening to music that wasn't hip and happenin'.

However, last September I started secondary school (which is the school you attend from the ages thirteen to seventeen or eighteen, depending on whether or not you do transition year) and my social life changed dramatically. No longer was I the person that listened to The Kinks and The Beatles, no longer was I the person that liked Pokémon, well, okay, that was never going to get out into the social circle because only two people knew about that. Instead, I was invited to all the parties, got loads of new friends, my Bebo account actually got page views. Yeah, my life turned a new leaf this year. The consequences were my grades, unfortunately, which took a dramatic drop this year, but I partly blame PC for keeping me up loads of nights on it instead of studying. Of course, for my Summer tests, I realised I had to do good instead of what I did in the Christmas tests, which I failed, so my activity on this forum lessened and my social life wasn't so social for about a month, but hey, with nine As and two Bs I'm hardly complaining.
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Sammi

Age 33
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The States
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Posted November 8th, 2021
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Online, not as much as I should be. I'm willing to talk with just about anyone, but I'm a bit shy. On MSN, I don't really start conversations, and not many people start conversations with me. It's a pretty vicious cycle. I keep telling myself to start convos, but I never seem to; it seems that when I do, they never reply, or it dies fast. I guess I'm a bit awkward. XD; I do have friends, though, and I'm grateful for it. :D

Offline, it's even worse. When it comes to the dorm, I'm willing to talk with anyone, and if there's a dorm-related event, chances are I'll go, because there's nothing else better to do. However, I don't talk to people in my classes, although I think it's mostly because I've been in huge classes. I'm not a member of any clubs or organizations, mostly because I don't have a car, and the buses don't run late. I hope to fix this next year. I'll find a ride... somehow!

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