How social are you?

[ringmastery]

Do you go out to dinner or bars a lot or do you mainly stay home and engage in solitary pursuits? Do you have lots of friends or are a loner and spend most of your time alone or with family/significant other?

[Mass_Liberal]

1. very social

I get sad when people aren't around. I have about 20 good friends. Nice guys. I hate spending time alone. Et toi?

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. Not very.

I get tense and irritable around large groups of people; if the situation is noisy and crowded enough I get sensory overload...I prefer to socialise one on one or in small groups of no more than about 4. For every hour I spend being social I seem to need about 3 to recover...I'm pretty much a classic introvert.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. used to be very social

but now i am just tired all the time

[TheDebbieDee]

4. I took an emote test about a year ago............

and found out that I am an introvert. I did some research about all the personality types, but with emphasis on introverts and found out alot about people in general and myself in particular and I learned alot about why I do the things I do.

[amazona]

5. anti

I do go out and also travel a lot but it isn't because it's my nature to be all about people or anything. If I don't get a significant chunk of time to myself, I can get seriously grouchy.

[Astarho]

6. reclusive

I like spending time alone either outside in the midle of nowhere or inside reading or writing.

[Nay]

8. Reclusive as well. Takes me all evening and weekends to recover

from social niceties required of me at work. Really sucks. Wish I was a forest ranger.

[LastKnight]

7. as little as possible.

fortunatley i keep busy so i dont have to worry about filling empty time really. but i really should get out more.

-LK

[SarahB]

9. Demented and sad, but social

I don't go out very much, and while I'm not shy, I'm introverted enough (or perhaps like to get beyond small talk) to prefer one on one conversations (or very small groups) to much excitement. My closest friend lives far away and I have a few pretty good friends, but we all have kids which impacts on how often we can get together, so most of my time is spent with my family.

[mdmc]

27. I'm very social - I talk to progressives everynight on DU.

:kick:

[Exultant Democracy]

10. Very social

I go out most nights, and when I stay in it is usually with a few of my friends. I do spend a certain amount of time reading each day, but that and when I DU are the only real alone time I have.

[Mr. Socko]

11. I live in the mountains in a unibomber-style shack...

jk.

I usually eat alone in my apartment. Sometimes I'll have a few friends to come over and join me. I'm not the type of person to have a lot of friends. I just like the company of a few.

[camero]

12. I like to stay home

Nekkid with an SO. :D

[Endangered Specie]

13. Depends, Id say slightly below average.

[Darranar]

14. Not social at all. n/t

[pmbryant]

15. Moderately

Though I much prefer mid-size groups (4 to 8) and generally am not as comfortable in big groups.

--Peter

[NJCher]

16. wow, lots of reclusive people here

I can go either way since I'm half introvert, half extrovert. Since my spouse is an introvert, though, I've gotten into the habit of being reclusive and spending lots of time alone.


Cher

[Kenneth ken]

17. I'm an introvert

it takes quite a while before I let someone new get close; so I have a small circle. OTOH, I have a lot of brothers and sisters, whom I socialize with, so I'm not completely solitary.

Socializing does wear me down quickly though, and I need a significant amount of time to myself on a regular basis.

I would mention that going to bars doesn't necessarily make one social; I've spent solitary time in crowded bars, it isn't difficult.

[Bertha Venation]

18. I'm a total introvert.

I used to be extremely outgoing. That was practically a requirement, being part of a boisterous, close-knit GLBT/friendly community chorus. But since moving to the east coast to marry Mrs. V., I haven't made many friends, and we don't go out much at all. We're both homebodies.

I don't much like going to lunch with people, either. I take almost every lunch at work by myself with a good book. My friends have to hitch a team of horses to me -- strong draft horses, y'know, like, Clydesdales -- to get me to have lunch with them.

[afraid_of_the_dark]

19. Antisocial.

:evilgrin:

Whooo hooo... 500 posts! :party:

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. I've got everything I need right here at home.

:hi: For the most part.

[bigwillq]

21. I'm very social

Like to go out to all sorts of places, bars, clubs, nice dinners, I'm a real people-person who liek to talk and have intelligent conversations.

[NoPasaran]

22. Quiet brooding loner n/t

[Philostopher]

23. What are these ... 'friends'

of which you speak?

I deal with people face to face in my job, so I guess that's enough socializing for me most of the time. I don't make friends easily, and most of Mr. Nownow's friends are the same ones he's had for a decade. I do volunteer work, and have some fond acquaintances there, but I never see any of them socially outside the organization and I don't go out with the people I work with (there are only three of us, and the other two women are considerably older than I am and have completely different interests).

The Mr. and I do go out, but we generally do things like playing trivia, seeing bands and eating out, that don't bring us into direct contact with others. We're both pretty introverted other than with our families. DU and a couple of other online/message groups are about the only thing close to social I do, other than work.

Once in a while I find it a little depressing, but for the most part, I'm happy that way, and so is Mr. Nownow, so I guess it's not a big deal that we're asocial.

[Deja Q]

24. When I can't scare them off in personals ads, talking on the phone for...

10 minutes usually does the trick.

'nuff said.

I'm single.

Not by choice.

[AlFrankenFan]

25. Very anti-social

Though last night I went out to see a movie, I went alone, and I hated seeing all the people there having fun, they were so loud and obnoxious...there's just something that's not charming about a big, loud group of idiots, err...I mean people. :P

I prefer to stay home alone, or maybe at the bookstore with no one to bother me.

[The Whiskey Priest]

26. It depends,

if it is with a group I like, I am very social.

If it is a group that I don't like, then I am just there.


A dark wood paneled bar, with some good conversation and I can be social to the nth degree.

[Madrone]

28. I am an ODD mix - but will say mostly anti-social.

I go to work, and I come home. That's about it. I LOVE time to myself, and if I go a long time without any I get really sketchy and cranky.

I could sit home by myself and not go anywhere for weeks, and be perfectly content.

However - the opposite side of my coin is that I can talk to just about anyone. Going to the grocery store can sometimes be a HUGE outing for me, because I run into people that love to talk, and I will talk to them for as long as they wish. Finally break free, turn a corner, and wham! Right into another talker --- lol.


I dunno, it's weird. I love people, and I love listening to them and sharing life with them - even someone I'll never see again. At the same time, I love time to myself, and am completely content in my own company.