Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Anti-Social ~ Social Networking

Here is a question I pose to myself today. Anyone reading can feel free to post a comment in response...

Can a person who is anti-social by nature really succeed in Social Networking?

Its odd, because in most circumstances, I would consider myself anti-social. Life has made me that way, sadly. I moved around a lot as a child, 5 states in my first 18 years. Heck, halfway through my senior year it came time to move again so I started school after Christmas break in a whole new state/school. It wasn't easy, and has had both positive and negative effects on me. I am fiercely independent and can handle most anything life hands me on my own... but part of me longs for the human contact of friends, etc that I shelter myself from even to this day.

So here we get back to the question. How does being anti-social affect both being a WAHM and Social Networking? It seems that social networking is a huge part of the WAHM culture, and has been for a long time. Being relatively anti-social has made that aspect of "relationship marketing" and social networking difficult for me. I don't have anything to talk about in the forums, I don't seem to "fit in" most of the time. I join social networks (like Ning) but after a short time the "networking" aspect becomes more like work to me and I just stop. I usually don't even get to the point where people get to know the "real" me at all.

So how does being anti-social work with social networking? So far, not so good.

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