9:21am July 5, 2013

“Studies have shown that, indeed, introverts are more likely than extroverts to express intimate facts about themselves online that their family and friends would be surprised to read, to say that they can express the ‘real me’ online, and to spend more time in certain kinds of online discussions. They welcome the chance to communicate digitally. The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a presence online and then extend these relationships into the real world.”

Susan Cain, “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.” (via princessnijireiki)

And people told me I was weird for making blogs and videos everyone could see and then being terrified when they went viral and the media approached me.

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