{"id":280,"date":"2006-03-30T12:20:11","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=280"},"modified":"2006-03-31T09:41:54","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T14:41:54","slug":"introversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Introversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark has a <a href=\"http:\/\/kaedrin.com\/weblog\/archive\/001046.html\">post on introverts<\/a>. He links to an article about introverts and the internet, where it makes the claim that, &#8220;&#8230;on the Internet, no one knows you&#8217;re an introvert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is mostly true, I think.  However, I do have a theory about how to spot an introvert-run blog:  Check the blogroll.  I&#8217;m betting short blogrolls (or none at all) are the mark of an introvert.  I have no numbers to back this up, this is based on conjecture and a small number of observations.<\/p>\n<p>The conventional wisdom is that introverts have a very limited list of very close friends, while extroverts have large numbers of people they might call friends, which is just about anyone with whom they&#8217;ve exchanged names and handshakes.  An extroverted blogroll says, &#8220;There are the sites I&#8217;ve read at some point and exchanged links with&#8221;.  An introvert blogroll says, &#8220;There are the few sites I admire and read on a regular basis.&#8221;  For me, anyone in my blogroll is a site I check more than once a day<sup>*<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>I also note that everyone on my own blogroll would be an introvert according to my test.  <\/p>\n<p>The typical blogroll seems to be one or two dozen, which is far more than I would ever have in my list. (Right now I have five, one of which is just a link back to my own website.) There are even blogs out there with hundreds of links to other sites.  It&#8217;s quite amazing.  I&#8217;m betting these are run by devout extroverts.  I&#8217;m betting these people blog as a way of <strong>augmenting<\/strong> their social interactions, as opposed to us introverts, who often blog as a way to exchange information and ideas without enduring the complexities and inefficiencies of personal interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;m all wrong and you need to straighten me out. Note that you can do so via the comments, which are asynchronous and thus do not threaten my introverted lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p><small>* Ok, I don&#8217;t check Kaedrin twice daily, but he only updates on Sundays.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark has a post on introverts. He links to an article about introverts and the internet, where it makes the claim that, &#8220;&#8230;on the Internet, no one knows you&#8217;re an introvert.&#8221; This is mostly true, I think. However, I do have a theory about how to spot an introvert-run blog: Check the blogroll. I&#8217;m betting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}