Extraverts, how they fascinate me. They talk to complete strangers, for no reason, about nothing…and seem to really enjoy this. I dont know why. Its most peculiar to me. Perhaps an extravert could explain this to me if there are any out there?
I met an extrovert recently; I am an introvert. It was very interesting!
Our brains literally react to the world differently. She actually says the things she’s thinking as the thoughts come to her. I think of these thoughts, but do not speak about them. On top of that, when I do speak, I assume that others hear the words in my head as if I’ve said them!!!
…it has its advantages and disadvantages 
Is it possible for someone who was an introvert to become an extrovert?
I was once shy but now i talk to strangers all over the place. I went to a chinese restruant and put on the juke box and started dancing to james brown when everybody was eating their food. I was the ONLY person dancing. Nobody else. Then I started talking to a guy at the bar randomly about spirtual matters for some reason.
I like solitude in all, but i welcome people, who ever there are, wherever i am. And i used to be shy, anti-social. So i guess i just answered my question
I actually don’t think you can…
You may be able to act like an extrovert, but I think it’s more of an inherited mental trait. In the end, you’re brain is compelled to exist in a certain kind of solitude. Yes, you can go out, be social, speak your mind, etc., but it also doesn’t necessarily change your compulsions. An extrovert is comfortably pursuing social behavior. For an introvert, a conscious decision to act otherwise is needed.
Maybe that is the difference that you are talking about?
Yes, i’m very conscious about when i will and will not be social. Beer helps too. I admire exroverts so i want to act like them but its not always smooth sailing. I think the percentage is 75% extroverts, 25% percent introvert, and i got the crappy 25%
You would be a fun Sims character…
Never have there been falser words written. You can do anything you want.
haha, i actually had that game. Best part of the game when the guy gets so bored he starts seeing shit like clowns. i didn’t like that you had to take a shower and shit some many times a day, especially when hadn’t taken a shower in real life, neglecting my real duties.
In playing The Sims I was always struck by the feeling that I should be doing myself what I was telling the sim to do. As if I would ever tell my sim to “play on the internet” or “play The Sims” for eight hours at a time. No, I have them working out, reading a book, resting, practicing an art or craft, eating, etc. Why am I not doing precisely this?
thats pretty much what i was trying to say about taking a shower. The virtual dude was getting way more punani than i was and i thought how pathetic can this get. I know of some sites where you can interact with people in a virtual world now, buying land with virutal and real money. Taking on different identities like multiple personalities. And its only gonna get crazier.
I know just what you’re talking about. Even the PS3 is implementing something along those lines: “virtual identities,” man. Even myself, lately, I’ve been wondering: what’s stopping me from becoming an “online celebrity”? I talk my philosophy shit on YouTube, I make some music, I write some original philosophy - I could literally develop a “following” it I devoted myself to becoming this online “thing.” But I don’t. And why not? (That’s a question I honestly cannot answer at this time.)
How did this become a SIms discussion?
of course an extravert can become an introvert and vice versa
Actually, nano and I had shifted the conversation well beyond the Sims discussion. Apparently you failed to notice.
see my thread in mundane babble: The Veer Off-Topic Game.
I say do it.
Well the trick is not forgetting your real self in the real world. I believe as things progress this might be harder to do in the future. Some people might know more about their virtual selves than who they are in the natural world. They might be born into it. And those who say “I just want the cyber sex, screw the reprocussions,” beware of those people.
You could dress like socrates and STAND on a rock, haha, and shout your philosophy to the crowds that gather. The multitudes!
Sorry dude, but that doesn’t mean a goddamn thing to me.
There can be no such distinction.
What happened? I used to like you.
What happened? I listened to the themes found in Radiohead’s Ok Computer. Tells of a future age, nay, warns of it.
youtube.com/watch?v=r8asQsfn82E
youtube.com/watch?v=8__vHs3xcR4
Anyway, if you dont want to be rooted, thats fine with me. In VR you can be anyone and anything to anyone and anything. Be a lobster and fuck a walking talking desk. Worship the computer programmer.
Have a nice day.
An introvert thinks before he acts. An extrovert acts before he thinks. One is pretty much the opposite of the other.
I think most people tend to be one or the other and it’s very hard to change because you’re basically changing your character.
Horizon showed an interesting episode where an extrovert and an introvert were shut up in a room and sensory deprived for 48 hours straight. The extrovert couldn’t handle it because he basically does most of his thinking outside of his body. With nobody else to talk to he felt truly alone in the world. The introvert had no problem with the experiment because he used that time to reflect. He’s the real independent person.
haha interesting… i just wrote a paper on social networks and their influences and i talked about how some technologies allow for a more efficient social life.
i asked, are pixels becoming more desirable than real life?