Anyone else here who is extremely non-social?

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I've been a member of WP for over four years and in that time I've only rarely got involved in any conversations in threads. Most of my posts are one-liners or puns. I have little or no interest in conversing with anyone about anything here or in real life. I've just deleted the handful of friends I have on facebook and deactivated my account because I rarely visit that site (a couple of times only in the last year) - I only joined to see what the fuss was all about.

I'm curious - is anyone else as non-social as me? I have no friends in real life or online and that suits me fine. I never go to any social functions or meet anyone and prefer to stay home and read, do some gardening, work on the computer, moderate this site and sometimes watch a documentary or sci-fi program on TV. I never feel lonely or feel the need for company and only rarely like to talk to anyone. I'm not anti-social - I'm friendly towards all who I do talk to; I'm just extremely non-social in comparison to just about everyone else on the planet!

There are people on this site who spend huge amounts of time in chit-chat on just about every imaginable topic. I just can't see the attraction. Am I just more extreme in my happy, self imposed isolation than most people or what? Why do people feel the need to talk to each other so much either online or in real life?

If you're happy that way, then that's fine. There is no harm in being that way, and in some ways I envy you. But there's a part of me that likes talking to people and sometimes have the urge for social interaction, and I don't always have a choice anyway because I'm on job-seekers so I sometimes have to phone places up or attend interviews, et cetera. I'm too capable to go on other benefits, I'm forced to go on job-seekers, and if I didn't interact with anybody, I'll lose my dole money, basically. But I like talking to people anyway.

Based on the definition of demisexuality (google it if you don't know) I guess you could consider me demisocial I may not be quite as extreme a case as you TallyMan, but I don't have a particular drive to be social just for the sake of it. Every once in a while I try out that idea because I feel like I'm supposed to, but it doesn't work out.

I am only interested in socializing if there is a specific reason. That can mean 1) it's functional (like offering what I hope are helpful responses to others, asking people for information, participating in class discussions at uni) or 2) I really like the person and have an interest in getting to know them as an individual, not just making a friend to have a friend. The second one is relatively rare. Like you, I am polite and friendly when required, but I don't tend to seek out interactions except in the above cases.

I don't have any offline friends either and I only talk to one person from this site.

I'm not really interested in socializing. I do like to share ideas and stuff online.

I avoid a lot of socializing because I find it stressful and exhausting, but I do enjoy it for learning more about people.

I don't always feel the need to talk to people in real life but if I don't, I have to substitute that somehow by talking to people online or going on the computer and doing something that deeply interests me.

What they call "socializing" is too slow, too petty and too fake for my tastes. I also don't see the point. I think I come here when I get an urge to "explain" myself. Nobody wants to hear it, but at least I can type it out and get rid of it - ROFL!!

Although I do have a few friends, I tend to disconnect myself socially when I'm not around them. When I'm not directly participating in a social event (i.e just sitting at home), I find I avoid people unless they contact me first. It's not that I don't care about them, but I seem to like a clear division between my "on" time when I can be social and my "off" time when I can pursue my interests.

Outside of work I socialise very little. Although I do have to spend a few minutes a day conversing with the Wife.

I don't send any socially Facebook messages, updates. Or any non-functional e-mail or phone calls.

I have about 2 real friends, one I see quarterly (if that) and he keeps trying to get me to go online and chat with him, I tend to give him 5 minutes every so often, finishing by doing the real-life equivilant of walking away. ("going to bed.." and sign out of chat.). He's Bi-Polar and doesn't get out much, any normal person would have let the friendship fizzle out, but he's pretty isolated.

The other friend is a work colleague, I go to the pub with him and get drunk once a month, it's mainly work related chat and I just watch what goes on in the bar.

In comparison my NT wife goes out at least twice a week in the evening, coffee with friends several times, will go jogging, phone, txt, e-mail friends on a daily basis.

I've found WP so far very different to other forums, it's all pretty much on topic, very little of the "post if you hate mondays" kinda thing.

Jason

I like to get out and about and especially enjoy talking to those in service positions (gas stations, fast food restaurants, convenience stores, etc) because they are usually great down to earth people. What I hate is small talk and the whole phony, backstabbing, social ladder climbing verbal BS. In other words, all of school, many office environments and on line dating in general. If someone is sincere and I can have a deep, meaningful conversation going I could talk all night.

I'm a member of a sport and social club and I take the 'sport' part much more seriously than the 'social' part even though my and large, most members are pretty decent people: it's just exhausting being in these situations constantly. I'd say I generally live in my own little world but there's nothing little about it.

I kind of enjoy talking to people for a little while whether I know them or not.

But after a quarter of an hour or half an hour, I can hardly wait to get out of there.

Asking if people here are extremely asocial would be like asking if most people are morons.

I'm a sort of chameleon. I take my daughter to school, talk all the way there, with my friend and the kids, and all the way back. We might meet up with some others too and I'll talk, talk, talk (preferably with those who can talk just as much, otherwise I can bore even myself). Then I come home and phone my parents. After that, I don't speak to another soul until 2.40pm, when I go round to my friend's house for the walk to school. On Thursdays and Fridays, my friend works, but I always 'trap' someone else, either on the way there or in the playground. When my daughter is at after school classes, I talk with other mums, a few of whom I consider to be actual friends now. I don't think I'm desperate to talk to someone, because I'm quite happy here not talking at all, all day long.