Comments on: Who’s using social media and are you too shy to share?

By: On geek chic and bloggers being freaks « Grapevine Consulting

On geek chic and bloggers being freaks « Grapevine Consulting — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:22:41 +0000

[...] first discussed this on my previous post about being Too Shy To Share and I’ve since seen on my travels there’s been some research on virtual shyness vs. IRL [...]

By: Leila

Leila — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:25:13 +0000

“(Although I wonder if after 30 mins there I’d discover a compulsion to tweet “sitting in cave waiting for @Romanus to stop by with the food basket”).”

Haha yes. This is the thing, though, for me. I have no real-life friends at all living anywhere nearby, and in real life I’m too shy to go out and meet people/do anything social. It’s actually my basic day-to-day isolation (and the shyness behind it) that *makes me* twitter, blog, etc. The internet allows me to be much more confident than I “really” am. I do think this is an incredibly impoverished way of socialising, but it does something to make one feel connected, from one’s cave…

By: Leila

Leila — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:25:00 +0000

“(Although I wonder if after 30 mins there I’d discover a compulsion to tweet “sitting in cave waiting for @Romanus to stop by with the food basket”).”