tRIUNE : oh ok. thanks for clearing that up. just got kind of confused as to what religion has to do with friends

I'd say I am in the middle of both. There are times I like to be out with friends, then there are times I just want to be alone and relax, or with very few people. Usually on the weekends I go hang out with friends, or go places because I like to get away from home a bit, and just have fun. A few years ago, I had one friend I went to school with ask me if I wanted to go to a few parties, and I declined, and really it was the people I knew that were going to be there, that I knew from when I was in school, and I couldn't stand them then, and I doubt I could stand them now. Then again, going to big parties anymore can be a double edged sword. Sometimes they are fun, sometimes they are not, and fights break out etc. I'd rather just hang with 5 or 6 friends, etc.

I'm a pretty social person once I get really into a group of people that I know well. Normally when I am placed in a situation where I don't really know anyone or don't feel comfortable talking to others I sit off alone in a corner or something.

I like being social more than being alone most of the time, but sometimes I just don't feel like the big talking to everyone and being in conversations thing that people really like to do. 

I'm a loner; I go months without talking to people. Some of my friends go years without hearing from me. I just like solitude. Online friends hear from me than my real life friends. I do go out and have fun just I am not much of a social butterfly anymore. I seem to like my online friends more than my real life friends- so much drama and some can just be bad influence.

I'm definitely more of a loner/introvert. In school there's some very few people I occasionally hang with but I end up being on my lonesome just as much. I don't really have too much common with those people outside from going to the same program and having a shared video game interest (though I'm likely a lot more extreme in mine lol) so that ends up being most of what we talk about.

Outside of school I keep to myself at home 95% of the time since I live far from my school and only have a few people I've kept in touch with outside of that. I really only have one friend from my old school that is close enough that I'd be able to talk about more serious stuff with him. Since we have entirely different future plans though (he's trying to become a smith I'm going for an econ or poli science major) we don't meet too much and are not really as close as we once were. Probably a large reason we've managed to stay friends despite it is because we still live relatively close to each other.

I'd say it's all partly because I like spending time alone, since I'm the kind of guy who gets tired from being around other people for too long. Thus I'm naturally not the most social person. However it's also because I've never been particularly good at socializing and talking with people I'm not already friends with (at least not IRL) and just not being a very interesting person in general. Couple that with me getting nervous and having social anxiety and it's not hard to see why I've had trouble making new friends. Doesn't help that I usually find myself having little in common with a lot of people my age which makes it even harder to find things to talk about. I think pretty much every lasting friendship I've had was a result of the other person making an effort to get to know me. Really I'd be lying if I said that I don't wish I made more of an effort to be social sometimes, a part of me really wants the social interaction, but at the same time I'm the reason I'm in this spot to begin with.

I am no doubt a social butterfly. I thrive on having people around me, I enjoy making people comfortable and helping them improve themselves, I do well when there's social situations and random strangers.

I'm the guy that goes to the wedding, grabs a grandma type and takes her on the dance floor. I'm the guy that's at a bar and approaches the group of four to seven attractive women and breaks the nice. I'm the dude that is at the party and I go from knowing no one to getting emails, facebook, and numbers to text people after.

It works well because my wife is much more introverted. She has her small group of friends and is okay seeing them every so often. She prefers reading, watching tv, running, and playing with our kids to going out and doing social things. She likes watching baseball at the stadium or watching football at the stadium and she's not afraid of people. She would rather not put in the work to be friends with everyone.

That's where I come in. She says, "Go make friends," and I get us invited to all sorts of things.

I couldn't be a loner. Heck, this Wednesday I'm going out to play bar trivia with some work friends while my wife stays home. I offered to let her go out with her work people and she said she did it last month so she's good. I'd go twice a week if I could.

I'd say I'm a lone wolf, although I'm trying to change that.

I've always been "on my own", had few friends and still have few friends, but true ones. I don't know, I always feel that I never fit into groups. Maybe because I've had a different "education" from the others who live near me. Say, while everyone would go out and play some soccer, I'd just prefer to stay home and play some games. While others feel the urge to go to rave parties and everything, I wouldn't change the comfort of my home over nothing. The result? Me, myself and I. I got to the point where I just dropped and ball and said "well, if you can't join 'em, create your own", and I've always had this philosophy with me. Show your true self to others, and if they don't accept you into their social circle, create your own social circle. Of course, the Internet was and still is one big influence for me, and that's where I found my few but true friends, who are still with me regardless of how I act or what I say.

I would say that I'm a social person. Put me in a situation and I'll be roughly 50/50 but if I'm on the social side, then I will go all out and be social.

It depends. I prefer to be a social loner; I keep my friends circle very tight. 

I share very few word with few people outside of my immediate family offline. I have a much easier time trying to converse over the Internet and posting in forums and such, but I still have a little trouble talking to people I'm unfamiliar with directly, even online. I'm more likely to be the person to listen to other conversations and, if I'm both knowledgeable of the subject and comfortable with interjecting, I'll offer my observation or opinion. So uh... whatever that makes me.

I am a social loner person (As in I prefer to be social and loner I guess)

I like chillin with my friends a lot but i also enjoy my time chillin by myself, like if I hangout with my friends, we'll laugh and stuff which is what i enjoy from it, and when im alone, i can sleep peacefuly (cause my friends is a bunch of motherf-er that can and will do stuff with my face when im asleep around them, but I'll do that to them too, thats friendship's all about, vandalizing each other's face lol)
So i came to a conclusion that ima social person cause the only time i need to be left alone is when im sleeping or when im working.

Growing up for me was a living hell for me. Was bullied almost all of 12 years of school we have here in Norway so I was alone for the most part of the school years, It's sticks to me to this day since I like being alone and just sit on my computer to play games or just sit here on Vizzed, But in recent years I starting to get more and more social and like to be around people to talk and relax, but the loner part is still a big deal of my life, Only time I actually meets other people expect my girlfriend is when I'm at work and meet my work mates. But when I come home I like sitting alone just in my own head and play some games or watch youtube.

This question depends on where I would be at the time.

I am mostly a "loner." I am mostly really quiet, especially if I'm around a group of people whom I don't know. Its just the way I've conducted myself for my whole life. I'm not really sure why I am that way. In school, I was really quiet and I didn't speak much if my friends weren't in the same class as me. And I haven't really changed all that much now that I'm 29.

But I could be a social person if I wanted to. Its just most of the time, I don't want to be social lol I really like sports and I'm around bowling a lot. So if we're talking about either one of those, you wouldn't be able to shut me up XD

Like others in this thread have already said, it depends on the time and place.

Usually, I'm a pretty social guy. I like to initiate conversations with people and like to talk. It really just stems from my overall persona of "Who cares what people think?", though I still keep out of the boundary of annoying regardless. I try to make it so people enjoy talking to me, and it usually works most of the time. I like to make new friends, too, and I guess I've been taught talking to them works best. It also helps soccer is prevalent in the UK, so I have a lot to say, anyway...

However, if it's somewhere where people are too sophisticated or a serious environment, I'll be quiet. That, or when I'm around people I don't like.

I'm generally an introvert, but it really depends on the situation.
A good chunk of the time, I'm a bit socially inept; I'm mostly worried about eye contact, and how much, when, and to who I should give it. Also, I have a lot of team mates in different extracurriculars that I know well, but I only have a few close friends that I prefer to keep up with.

Put me in a larger group of people, either I can't think of much to talk about and/or I can't get a word in edge-wise for me being too polite to potentially interrupt a conversation.

But put me in a much smaller group, say two to five, give me some time to get comfy, and I'll really hit it off.

However, if I get too much social interaction, I tend to get awkward and go into "hermit mode", where I'll feel like doing nothing but taking a nap and speaking to no one at all.

I am absolutely a loner, regardless of the fact that I surround myself with people. I tend to do things myself, typically for myself. I normally never ask anyone for help with something that I can do myself, and I don't tell people what my problems are until I've actually fixed them.

I don't burden my friends by being reliant on them, I don't want them to carry any weight due to my situation.

As for being particularly vocal, I'm bad at small talk and I can only really talk about things that I have a large opinion on, or know a lot about it.

I'm pretty much just that one guy who only says important things.

Maguc : I'm surprised at your answer. The way you write and how you phrase things is clever, to say the least, and I would have had you pegged for the person who shoots verbal darts in conversations and cracks everybody up. You do it on here. It would follow the sense of humor continues in the real world. I guess I missed my mark.


I'm social. I thrive on the energy of people and being actively involved with big groups, either at sporting events or gyms or parties, is something I live off. I love social gatherings, where people are moving around, there are 30 conversations all at once, everyone is jammed into an area and people are wandering around making nice, making friends, and moving back to the bar or the snack table for something else to eat. My wife relies on me to make friends at social gatherings and she hangs with the usual suspects she knows already. I vet new people and potentially invite them along with us or get us invitations to go have adventures with them.

I love meeting new people, I love learning about new cultures and opinions, and I like to hear the stories people have. It never gets old to meet someone else.

Most of the time, I am an introvert, as most people on this thread have also said. I mean yes, I have a group of friends, and yes I met a few people in high school, and band but generally I stick to smaller groups of people rather than large parties.