Pete Cashmore at Mashable raised an interesting question today when he asked if the leading proponents of social media are, in fact, social media introverts —
Wouldn’t it be a great irony if the leading proponents of the “it’s about people” mantra weren’t so enamored with meeting large groups of people in real life? Or, perhaps…fitting. Perhaps social media affords us the control we lack in real life socializing: the screen as a barrier between us and the world.
I had always thought of myself as a loner until I realized that people have different social styles –
Everyone has a different social style, so, understand yours and start from your comfort zone, before you challenge them.
Some people like meeting new people at parties where they can look beautiful, click pictures of each other on their camera-phones, get drunk and dance late into the night, and become lifelong friends without even saying a full sentence to each other (because the music is too loud to talk).
Other people like to meet new people one on one — over coffee, let’s say — so that they can talk to each other, get to know each other.
