Ice Breakers

Boy it's been a while since I've posted on this, but life has become a bit busy for me as of recent, but I hope to try my hand at blogging on a slightly regular basises again. This blog is about me & being social. I'll start by saying, I ain't! I have been shy pretty much all my life. I remember being 4 years & trying to hide behind my Dad's pant leg when an actor at the Renaissance Festival was trying to talk to me with a puppet. In a recent conversation with my boy friend, I asked him what was wrong with me that all the girls I know are always getting hit on by guys and yet I seem to get mainly ignored. He said it's because I'm anti-social and that I tend to put a wall up to keep people away from me. It makes sense to me. A lot of it probably has to deal with being the bully magnet in elementary school. Between that and my natural shyness, I'm just not a very social butterfly. While everyone else was out partying on Friday and Saturday nights in high school, I was at home in my room playing video games. It didn't really matter to me, I was pretty happy. Now we get to the meaning of the title of this post. I have been big into twitter since May of 2009 and Facebook since Aug of 2009. I have over 300 followers on twitter and at last count 143 friends on Facebook. Why is this a big deal to me? In the world of social media it's much easier to meet and talk to people through a computer instead of being dropped into a social event where I'm likely to feel over whelmed and shut down, which means I won't talk to anyone. But I've made a lot of new friends through social media and hopefully when and if I ever meet them in real life, I will be much more open and willing to talk. Social media is a great way to break the ice and talk and get to know a person before actually meeting them and helps those of us who get a little socially anxious. And if you're wondering how a anti social person gets a boy friend, it's because a mutual friend of ours introduced us through text messaging and we texted for about a month before we met irl and it made the first meeting that much easier for me, because I already knew what he was like and what his interests were and what kind of things we could talk about.