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Are you? Can you come across as shy on the Internet? Classic or dud...etc...Any being shy related stories?

― james, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

too shy shy, hush hush eye to eye. Also, please don't think I'm being insensitive or anything like that!

― james, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am shy in rl unless chemically enhanced where upon I get better looking, funny, rich, and sexy (not necessarily in that order).

The great thing about the internet is that it pretty much transcends the barriers we have in society: age, race, looks, wealth, education (cept reading + writing), religion. You have the opportunity to only reveal things about yourself at your leisure. You can remain anonymous, or take on an enitrly different persona.

― smythe, mr smythe, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's interesting...I never really tried to create a new identity. I'm not sure if I could. I wouldn't feel quite right. Though, of course, it's much easier online to hide one's faults, or only divulge certain information, I don't view that as identity creation, merely portraying aspects of self or being cautious.

― james, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am shy-ish, and paranoid in rl, I say shy ish because I start off with good intentions not to offend anyone or makemyself too noticed but then I get bored and have to say something obnoxious to liven things up.

Being shy is dud, it always seemed to me that the more confident people of my acquaintance inevitably better liked and got away with more than the quiet people I know, who are equally deserving. Of course I am trivialising the causes and oversimplifying, but launching into full diatribe on the matter is beyond me right now.

― Menelaus Darcy, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am shy in real life and online. I don't post here much because I am shy.

― Melissa W, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

im socially awkard

― anthonyeaston, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

....Erm...Oh, nothing.

― Graham, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am extremely shy. I am so shy, in fact, that once when I was 15 some girls came onto me and I just stared dead on out of the window I was facing in the restaraunt I was sitting in, without once looking at them. They gave up after quarter of an hour. I never knew what their faces looked like. Also I hardly post on IL* at all (though over the weekend I just posted about two months' worth of postings by my standards!).

― Chris Lyons, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm terribly shy unless it's a one on one situation. Or the Int'net.

― toraneko, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah. i delete most posts i write so i guess i'm shy online as well. if i posted all the stuff i deleted i might be on the stats cock today.

― kevin enas, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not shy just INCREDIBLY IN YOUR FACE ANNOYING.

― Ronan, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if u are shy, what are you like on ecstacy? I think of myself as shy and socially awkward, but drop me a good'un and i become the incredible babbling man determined to mither most passing strangers with theories concoted on the spot.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am not shy but only if people talk to me first. I'm not good at initiating meeting with strangers, but happy to mee them if they come up to me

― Ed, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I feel shy, but people tell me I'm not. Figures.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am quite shy, but online I become incredibly loud and SELF- PROMOTING.

― Nicole, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not shy at all. I mean to the extent that when I'm alone at the end of a day I just think "fucking hell that was hard". I'm not moaning or anything, I love my er magnetic personality but it is tiring. And also annoying to some people probably. That part doesn't bother me much though.

― Ronan, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A year ago I would have said "oh, definitely," but now I am not sure. I am not scared of talking to people anymore, but often I do not because I have nothing to say or I would rather not talk because it seems stupid and pointless anyway. It depends on my mood. I'm not very shy anymore, except towards flirting.

― Maria, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to be horribly shy. I am de-shy ing as I get older.

― turner, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I'm shy, but no one else does. Put it this way, I'd strike up a lot more conversations with strangers if I had more confidence to do so.

― Nick, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Shyness is nice, but...I'm just as shy as I was when I was 10 years old, which is pretty shy. Actually, it's more a mix of awkwardness and laziness these days.

Except when I'm drunk. Like Kevin Enas, who I should get drunk and post more often.

― Arthur, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

who I THINK should get drunk, etc.

― Arthur, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to be very shy. I still think of myself as shy but I seem not to behave shyly any more. Well, not often. Also, people mistake my shyness for being a grumpy bastard who thinks he's too good to talk to them. This however is true a quarter of the time at the very most.

― Tom, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just have no conversation skills with strangers...and also probably come across as a rude disinterested git.

― james, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i have too many anecdotes like chris'.

― ethan, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah, I can empathise with Chris's story too!

Though, I don't think people should be shy of posting here!

― james, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah, I'm quite shy.. I suppose it's getting better.. though yesterday a friend was telling me how I avoid eye contact, how I avoid most kinds confrontation with strangers (I'm talking about store clerks and the like), how I look at the ground after I've made a successful joke..it's more of a social awkwardness than a complete avoidance..

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes, I R being very shy, as anyone from kareoke R telling you! It R my only failing, along with my extreme modesty!

― I R scared!, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would be a lot better off if I was shy more often.

― rainy, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'd rather people thought i think i'm too cool to talk to them than that i'm merely "shy", how fuckin' lame.

― duane, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to be shy. The usual excruciatingly awkward insecure teen drama. I outgrew it almost without noticing - it dawned on me one day a couple of years ago when I caught myself spontaneously *volunteering* to get up in front of an entire department at work (about 30 people) to speak about some of our technical banking junk. Harder to outgrow are all the odd little personality tics that a formerly shy person is left with, and they're so irritating because they're just such dead give-aways that they make you feel way too transparent and predictable.

― Kim, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am taking a fluff class in school where they make me stand up and sing and dance around randomly in front of people (voice class = self- esteem class, the teachers have decided) and I like to sing in front of people now. I used to be absolutely petrified. I think that's a pretty big step away from shyness.

― Maria, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sometimes people might think I'm shy, but I'm actually just stupid. Incredibly stupid.

― maryann, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mostly i don't talk to people i don't know. that doesn't mean i am shy, that just means that theres an awful lot of people in the world that don't interest me.

if i meet a shy person that interests me, i am shy around them. i think thats because i'm pretty loud and i don't want to scare the shy person.

― di, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Shy around women in face-to-face conversation. Not on WWW though. But I still can't pull.

― Kodanshi, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm shy. why do people who aren't shy use ILE? shouldn't you people be out talking to humans?

― hamish, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think thats because i'm pretty loud and i don't want to scare the shy person.

no people should be loud around shy people and then they don't have to make any noise to fill up the empty spaces.

― hamish, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

because all our friends are here, its like ringing the phone pub.

I would talk to you in rl, but you are holed up with the computer.

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am extremly shy and it makes me mad. I wish I wasn't this way. Yet, when I am with my friends, or in a large group, I can be...not shy. But I hate guys who don't make the first move for this reason.

― Mandy, Friday, 2 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Its worse and a lot more painful hating girls who don't make the first move for that reason.

― Honda, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Q: What's a phone pub?
A: It's this thing
Codex: *sigh*

― mark s, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New Slang Alert! It's this thing! :)

― james, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You had to go and spoil it.

― Nick, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm just a cloud raining on your parade, I'm sorry. :(

― james, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nick's just pms'ing.

― jess, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six years pass...

im a bit shy. not so much with people i know although a friend of mine yesterday night told me i can still be shy with her and ive known her for about 10 years! i think its more to do with my mood more than anything but i can be a bit shy with new people. ive just accepted it really, no point agonising about it. although there are several opportunities ive stupidly passed up cos of my shyness. which is when i hate it.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

i think im going to make a concerted attempt to just slip out of it. or most of it at least lol.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

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― RabiesAngentleman, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 15:06 (seventeen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Yetis are shy

― | (Latham Green), Monday, 24 October 2022 13:44 (three years ago)

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