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10 years ago
When I first got on Furaffinity, shy, introverted Roweland was a little mystified by the preponderance of Skype names freely advertised to the public. I could understand loving to chat, but who could hold a conversation with a total stranger?
I hadn't ever really jumped on the chat train whether it be IRC or what-have-you. I was too intimidated to jump into conversation with people who seemed to be really well-acquainted with each other. I've since come around and become less shy. Still an introvert, I guess, but I can play an extrovert in public. Hell, I have played an extrovert in public. Everyone who I've introduced myself to at meets as Roweland is meeting a personality who hasn't existed for terribly long. But the best advice I've heard in recent years to become less shy? Fake it til you make it. That is to say, if you act like an extrovert long enough, eventually even you'll begin to believe it. It's worked for me since the latter years of college. But that's real life and this is the internet we're talking about here. It's a bit more intimidating, yeah?
I was emboldened slightly by a fellow mathlete from high school who admitted he found his current girlfriend through a random omegle conversation. And if an overdramatic Korean poet can do it, why can't I?
So I ended up making a furry Skype account (due to my pre-existing account being my real name) upon invitation by one of the guys I met at LAFFBall.
Then came the bots.
I didn't have this problem the first time I jumped on Skype back in college. But after a one-sided conversation with a camgirl who doesn't take "I'm gay!" for an answer, I realize I should be putting anon contact requests through a Turing test. (I gotta admit, I didn't think the machines would take over by way of horny, attention-seeking, female teases on the internet, but now I think that scenario is more likely than any other.)
So just as in the real world, I'm putting myself out there. Faking it, but that's hardly new. So send a contact request, but be ready to prove you're a human. Er... Well, you know what I mean.
Skype: rowelandfox
I hadn't ever really jumped on the chat train whether it be IRC or what-have-you. I was too intimidated to jump into conversation with people who seemed to be really well-acquainted with each other. I've since come around and become less shy. Still an introvert, I guess, but I can play an extrovert in public. Hell, I have played an extrovert in public. Everyone who I've introduced myself to at meets as Roweland is meeting a personality who hasn't existed for terribly long. But the best advice I've heard in recent years to become less shy? Fake it til you make it. That is to say, if you act like an extrovert long enough, eventually even you'll begin to believe it. It's worked for me since the latter years of college. But that's real life and this is the internet we're talking about here. It's a bit more intimidating, yeah?
I was emboldened slightly by a fellow mathlete from high school who admitted he found his current girlfriend through a random omegle conversation. And if an overdramatic Korean poet can do it, why can't I?
So I ended up making a furry Skype account (due to my pre-existing account being my real name) upon invitation by one of the guys I met at LAFFBall.
Then came the bots.
I didn't have this problem the first time I jumped on Skype back in college. But after a one-sided conversation with a camgirl who doesn't take "I'm gay!" for an answer, I realize I should be putting anon contact requests through a Turing test. (I gotta admit, I didn't think the machines would take over by way of horny, attention-seeking, female teases on the internet, but now I think that scenario is more likely than any other.)
So just as in the real world, I'm putting myself out there. Faking it, but that's hardly new. So send a contact request, but be ready to prove you're a human. Er... Well, you know what I mean.
Skype: rowelandfox
