Do you consider yourself friendly?

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I try to be friendly, but I tend to be so busy worrying about the signals I'm giving out, and eye contact, and what I'm going to say next, that I don't think it comes across.

I definitely have times when I feel extremely unfrendly, when I don't want to talk to anybody apart from my immediate family, andI'll cross the road or go the other way home to avoid having to talk to people I know, and I just wish I could clear off to the north of Scotland or the islands somewhere, buy or rent a croft, and just live on my own with my dogs, some chickens and maybe a milk cow, growing vegetables and unmolested by other humans. Grrr.

Last edited by Deefor4 on 07 Sep 2007, 3:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I am so friendly that it actually gets me into trouble (which, until yesterday, was a state of friendliness I was entirely unaware of); I'm pretty much the same way here as I am in real life. But Icarus ain't chaingin'.

Good fortune,

- Icarus Is Too Friendly For Some Folks

I can get along well with my three friends (currently it is more like 2.5) but most people would not likely call me friendly. I rarely smile at people, and have little if any eye-contact or even smiles for strangers. I have been accused of being arrogant and I often ignore other people when being in thoughts. I am working to improve those things to the point where people would get me right.

I think that I'm friendly. It depends on who I'm with. If I'm around stuck-up bimbos, I tend not to be friendly. If I'm around ordinary people, I tend to be very friendly.

Maybe not friendly, but I am nice once you get to know me.

I'm usually not percieved as very friendly. I tend to take things too seriously and expect others to do the same.

p.s. ghostgurl, your avatar is awesome. I love that comic .

I would like to think I'm friendly, but I doubt it really comes off that way. So now , I usually just try to be quiet and not be around people. I think I just give off weird signals, though how would I know? People just react oddly sometimes when I do try to act friendly, so Ive come to the conclusion I'm not doing it right.

I really try to be friendly, but I'm not sure how others see it. Considering I don't have any friends, it's probably not getting across.

Same here, more or less. I've had close friends in the past, and there are people I'm not interested in being friendly with and I'm sure they know it somehow.

I used to have this problem. What I do now is a combination of things. When I'm around people, I do favors for everybody. I don't go out of my way, but if a person needs help with something - anything - I help them out. I usually do this at the beginning, like on the first day of class. Somebody didn't have the textbook, so I offered to copy the needed pages. That sets you up as a friendly guy, and even if he doesn't really like you from the start, he'll be much more willing to do something with you. It's part of the mentality that he owes you. But that's just one trick that you can't use every single time.

Something else I do, is I make conversation with everybody. I talk and talk and talk to anybody. And whenever something I know about or do comes up in a conversation, like the topic of gangster movies came up in a conversation the other day, it'll be like "Ah dude, you've never seen godfather? That's it, I'm going to show it to you. It's amazing". I just put that out there. But unless the other person hints that they would actually like to make plans, I never try to say anything like "when would you be free to watch it with me?". I just constantly go around saying I'll do stuff with people without making plans and a lot of the time people are game and will want to make plans with me.