Good at talking on the internet, suck at real life?

I use to have it so bad I couldn't even talk on the internet.

I still can't believe sometimes I can do it and actually be successful a majority of the time and make people laugh/feel something.

I'm pretty sure it's cause the internet doesn't have any consequences for social failure. You're anonymous.

On here...you can just close the chat box or put them on ignore! HAHA EZ PZ GG $$

It definitely taught me a lesson on how everything is extremely hard at first...but gets easier. So you have to fail a lot to get ahead.

I guess this is true to everything in life...so hopefully soon I'll get outside amongst people(sexy girls :lol and fail a lot! YAY FOR FAILING A LOT!

How 'bout you?

*looking for some cool quote

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw

but yes i suck so mcuh, even in the internet, i can barelly start speaking with somebody, now it's getting easier, because i'm even trying , and i'm very glad i did

Nice quote

Yup it will get way easier

I talk..or actually type lol loads online specially on MSN than i would in talking in RL. I also don't really mind how i say it either. It's just much better talking/typing online than in rl.
When I talk to online friends they probably think i'm really outgoing in rl but if i was to met up with the person i was chattin away to online, i'd go all shy and mute LOL

I used to chat with a girl everyday back in high school, we didn't have any classes together so it's all we could do. I got her to go with me to the homecoming dance with some some other couples. Well, the whole time she would not look at me or talk. She also refused to dance, the only thing she said was goodbye at the end of the night. Later when I got home and logged on I immediately got hit with a "IM SO SORRY!" She went on to apologize and all that and she was very chatty. I start questioning her for awhile and she finally said that she just liked being "online friends" In RL she wanted a tall athletic guy (I'm average height and slender). The lesson? online relationships may be fun, but it's RL that matters.

Ubersonic said:

I used to chat with a girl everyday back in high school, we didn't have any classes together so it's all we could do. I got her to go with me to the homecoming dance with some some other couples. Well, the whole time she would not look at me or talk. She also refused to dance, the only thing she said was goodbye at the end of the night. Later when I got home and logged on I immediately got hit with a "IM SO SORRY!" She went on to apologize and all that and she was very chatty. I start questioning her for awhile and she finally said that she just liked being "online friends" In RL she wanted a tall athletic guy (I'm average height and slender). The lesson? online relationships may be fun, but it's RL that matters.

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that's rought, you made me genunelly sad, you should had told her to go suck a big crocked!

It was only last year, which was my senior year in high school, that I talked online for the first time.
My friend asked me whether I had AIM, and after I said no he told me I should get it. I was kinda scared to get it, but I finally did one day and a few days later talked to my friend online. That was a really cool experience.
I kinda surprised myself, because I became talkative online, at least to my friends. They would joke to me in school that I talk to them more online than I ever do in person.
Also, I had never posted on forums before, until I came across this forum. Thanks for making this forum a friendly, comfortable place.

I think it is all about feeling comfortable and secure, and that same feeling of comfort and security has to come in RL too.

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I am a funny, engaging and intelligent conversationalist when I am comfortable talking to somebody, but that just doesn't happen with many people.

I feel like I suck at both online and real life conversation. I suppose I feel a tad less nervous communicating online. Although, I am nervous about creating a facebook or any other social networking account. I feel like I want to hide from people all together. Although I am so lonely I find myself wanting to break down and create a facebook account. My "friends" would just be a few people from high school. They probably wouldn't even remember me anyways. I was pretty invisible in high school as well.

I'm not too sure I'm all that good at talking online. Compared to real life it's better if for no other reason than I know I'm not giving off an awkward or uncomfortable effect, which tends to get me a lot of funny looks from people. Online I'm much less afraid of being judged, and that's a fear I'm rarely ever free of in the real world.