Comments on: Facing up to Facebook http://spectatrix.com/2007/08/05/facing-up-to-facebook/ the passionate introvert Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:00:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeanne http://spectatrix.com/2007/08/05/facing-up-to-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-665 Jeanne Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:37:31 +0000 http://spectatrix.com/2007/08/05/facing-up-to-facebook/#comment-665 <p>There appears to be an impression here that being a loner is something that should be avoided, explained and perhaps "cured", as if it were some sort of afliction. I don't agree. I'm a happy loner and certainly do not need a "cure". I enjoy my solitude and my friends. "Introvert" and "extrovert" are limiting and polarizing lables that rarely apply to any actual person. It's arrogant to believe that a person can be defined with a single word. People are much more complicated and interesting than that. Perhaps the people who need these lables just need a simple way to define people; and to shrink them into their own simplistic intellectual limitations. Cheers to all, I'm off for a walk in the sunshine. Alone.</p> There appears to be an impression here that being a loner is something that should be avoided, explained and perhaps “cured”, as if it were some sort of afliction. I don’t agree. I’m a happy loner and certainly do not need a “cure”. I enjoy my solitude and my friends. “Introvert” and “extrovert” are limiting and polarizing lables that rarely apply to any actual person. It’s arrogant to believe that a person can be defined with a single word. People are much more complicated and interesting than that. Perhaps the people who need these lables just need a simple way to define people; and to shrink them into their own simplistic intellectual limitations. Cheers to all, I’m off for a walk in the sunshine. Alone.

]]> By: spectatrix http://spectatrix.com/2007/08/05/facing-up-to-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-318 spectatrix Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:36:15 +0000 http://spectatrix.com/2007/08/05/facing-up-to-facebook/#comment-318 <p>Cat:</p> <p>No, blogging is just another means of expression, not a CURE. As for the Google definition, I am pretty interesting... :)</p> Cat:

No, blogging is just another means of expression, not a CURE. As for the Google definition, I am pretty interesting… :)

]]> By: Cat Jahnke http://spectatrix.com/2007/08/05/facing-up-to-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Cat Jahnke Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:44:41 +0000 http://spectatrix.com/2007/08/05/facing-up-to-facebook/#comment-317 <p>So perhaps in the near future you'll be writing about a CURE for introversion: Blogging! Baby steps, Morg...</p> <p>(btw, I had to look up "introversion" because it didn't seem like the proper word. Google found this definition: "Preoccupation with oneself and accompanying reduction of interest in the outside world. Contrast to extraversion." What do you think about that?)</p> So perhaps in the near future you’ll be writing about a CURE for introversion: Blogging! Baby steps, Morg…

(btw, I had to look up “introversion” because it didn’t seem like the proper word. Google found this definition: “Preoccupation with oneself and accompanying reduction of interest in the outside world. Contrast to extraversion.” What do you think about that?)

]]> By: spectatrix http://spectatrix.com/2007/08/05/facing-up-to-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-296 spectatrix Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:23:35 +0000 http://spectatrix.com/2007/08/05/facing-up-to-facebook/#comment-296 <p>Johanna:</p> <p>Exactly! I've read that there's a tendency for introverts to dislike talking about themselves, and I know that's certainly true for me. I feel like I never quite represent myself well, and thus people rarely get to know the "real me." On the other hand, there are certain extroverted people whose entire life story you know in the first five minutes of talking to them, and they usually have a lot of friends, which I sometimes envy. But I know I've found a potential good friend when someone asks me "so tell me about yourself," and they really mean it (crucial to building trust is knowing that someone is actually listening). In the meantime, Facebook and the writing I do on this and other blogs at least makes me feel like I can present myself in a good light for once :)</p> Johanna:

Exactly! I’ve read that there’s a tendency for introverts to dislike talking about themselves, and I know that’s certainly true for me. I feel like I never quite represent myself well, and thus people rarely get to know the “real me.” On the other hand, there are certain extroverted people whose entire life story you know in the first five minutes of talking to them, and they usually have a lot of friends, which I sometimes envy. But I know I’ve found a potential good friend when someone asks me “so tell me about yourself,” and they really mean it (crucial to building trust is knowing that someone is actually listening). In the meantime, Facebook and the writing I do on this and other blogs at least makes me feel like I can present myself in a good light for once :)

]]> By: Johanna http://spectatrix.com/2007/08/05/facing-up-to-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-294 Johanna Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:05:26 +0000 http://spectatrix.com/2007/08/05/facing-up-to-facebook/#comment-294 <p>I think you are on to something with saying you enjoy being able to present a full snapshot of yourself on your own terms. I know in social situations, I can feel a bit overwhelmed if someone says to me, "so tell me about yourself". Where to start? If technology advances enough that we can carry around electronic facebooks to hand out, I might be tempted to say, "Here, read this, and get back to me when you're done." :-)</p> I think you are on to something with saying you enjoy being able to present a full snapshot of yourself on your own terms. I know in social situations, I can feel a bit overwhelmed if someone says to me, “so tell me about yourself”. Where to start? If technology advances enough that we can carry around electronic facebooks to hand out, I might be tempted to say, “Here, read this, and get back to me when you’re done.” :-)

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