Are you an attention seeker?

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Well are you? And do you get annoyed by others when they attention-seek?

Also let's discuss and exchange attention seeking techniques.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 7 July 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

I think I am, over half the time I think. I don't know whether I mind other people seeking attention. Depends on how they do it I suppose.

I usually just do stupid stuff to catch attention. I don't like the throwing a tantrum thing - it works, but gosh, wrong kinds of attention for me.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 7 July 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I didn't start this thread OK!?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 July 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

DUDE STOP POLLUTING MY THREAD.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/markgrout

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Of course I'm an attention seeker. I wouldn't be in a band and get onstage if I wasn't.

But Ken is right that there are different (and differently acceptible) ways of attention seeking. If you want attention, create something that makes you worthy of attention. Negative attention is not the same, though for many it amounts to the same thing.

Though, TBH, the best way of getting attention is to be attentive to others. Funny how that works. If you want to be loved, be lovable. Or, erm, something.

What am I talking about? Who cares? hey, look at this thing!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yes because I am actually very SHY. Life is just a big, easily work-outable system of paradoxes!

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

only when i DESERVE attention.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

(har har - mark grout only has one friend, and not even a real one at that!)

I am not an attention seeker, but I am an attention desirer.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 10 July 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

Nope. Approval seeker all the way.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 10 July 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

aimless OTM

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

;)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

Mark has 1 friends.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yes because I am actually very SHY. Life is just a big, easily work-outable system of paradoxes!

Yes me too! I was incredibly shy in high school and in college I became attention seeking and noisy in overcompensation. I am now trying, and failing, to find a good middle ground between silence and obnoxiousness.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I was really shy and anxious around people until I was about 16. I'm more of an approval seeker though--I am that girl who always tries to answer every question in class.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

HEY, I'MA POSTING ON THE INTERNETS!

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

of course! i'm a noob.

― cate flamingo (cate flamingo), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

It will come to absolutely no surprise to anyone that knows me that I think I am an enormous attention seeker. Amazingly I know so many people who are even worse than me in this regard.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

I am, I really am. My rather luminous hair shade says it all really. And the fact I think one of the best things about being in a band is the showing off.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

I think the seeking of approval rather than attention thing describes me well. I do care a lot that any attention I receive is for good reasons rather than bad. Some, it seems, do not - or care a lot less, or do not/cannot define good from bad, or just have different ideas about what good and bad are in this case.

At the same time I actually really dislike showing off which may sound hypocritical and could well be. But anything I do as a public display or demonstration of creativity IS done more for personal satisfaction first and to impress others second. I guess most people would say that tho. The dislike of showing off probably has a lot to do with worrying about what other people would think/not wanting people to think I was arrogant/big-headed/smug/whatever - even if it can compromise personal enjoyment of an experience.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

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