Do you find it hard interacting online socially?

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I don't know if I'm the only one who is like this or not (I highly doubt I am), but I find that my social awkwardness tends to be just as bad online as it is in "real life". I don't like jumping into conversations because I'm not sure how to go about it. I'm terrible at interpreting what others are saying to me if there is no audible aspect to it. Even in this forum where I am surrounded by so many like-minded people, I'm still faced with the question of "What to do, what to do!"

I unabashedly interact on the Wrong Planet (really, just ask anyone). Yet I am shy and in person I can be really reticent. I guess because in vivo it is easier to be judged by another and conversations are spontaneous. There is some distance afforded online too. I cannot know about the human aspect, but don't worry on the Wrong Planet. I do think others, in person anyhow, can sense uneasiness and often prey on such insecurities, which is why it can be hard.

i do not interact in a social manner with anyone on line, so i have to answer "no".

diamonds are hard but they are also brittle.

Let me rephrase, do you find it hard to interact online?

I understand what you mean. It's not easy to think of what to say even online. I often wonder if what I'm writing is inappropriate or offensive. I often wonder if I'm accepted even in an online community like Wrong Planet. However, I find it far easier to "interact" in an online forum than in person because I don't have to endure the awkwardness and nervousness that I almost always feel in-person interactions. So, the answer is "Yes, but not so much as in person".

most of us just say our piece then leave

interacting is more private messaging, of which I am not programmed

With practise on-line chatting gets easier

you do not have to rephrase anything.
my answer is "no", because i do not interact with anyone other than to state my case.

It's a little easier because writing is easier than speaking.

But I still have so little to say. I'm not shy, I don't worry if it's the right thing to say. I simply have nothing to say period. I tend to be quiet enough in chats to tick ppl off. But I can't come up with something to say. it's a blank.

It's much easier for me to interact online than it is offline. Offline, I have no friends because of it, but I have some online.

In actual face to face this seems to be a lot of work.

Last edited by Mdyar on 01 Nov 2012, 4:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Naw. Online it's much better.

Same here and for a while I thought I would do all right, even more so since nobody knew about my AS (on a general networking site,) yet I must have been wrong. No idea how I managed to mess it all up, but obviously that's exactly what I did.

I've described in a previous thread how I feel there's several layers less of translation when I write or type versus speaking.

But yes. I often have trouble interacting online, anyways. Not on an online forum, obviously, but "real time" interaction is still kind of a struggle. It's just several levels less harder than having to speak. I can actually participate online, no matter how we're interacting.

I don't go on Facebook because I don't know whether I can comment or whether they want me to comment or what will happen if I comment and they don't want me to comment. I get worried that no one will care or want to hear my opinion. I feel embarrassed just thinking about social media and so I never go on sites such as Facebook, only to accept new friends. I spend too much time worrying and being nervous about what the next day will be and what I have said in the day I don't need anything else to get anxious worried or stressed about.

I also have dyslexia so I get worried and embarrassed that I will spell something wrong and everyone will laugh, I have never used instant message for that reason.

but yes I also find online interacting hard. I also have a problem with youtube comments and forums like this, many times have I wrote a response and never clicked submit due to thinking, 'what will others think' but I am getting better.

Online *is* my social life :p In person I'm completely useless - I've actually get to know with people that way more often and that helps when I meet them and they get the 'wierdo' vibe they don't completely avoid me.

I pick and choose though - friendly audiences like WP and the few people I know on some IRC channels, plus Facebook where I have a strictly limited number of friends (about 20 at last count).

I don't do PMs though - prefer the safety of an open forum.

No, I find I am like an NT when communicating online, I know just what to say and I ask the right questions and say the right thing and I never come out with stupid things.