http://applebatch.com

http://blog.iliveisl.com/why-we-tweet/

While the social aspect is introverted, its results are outward (and its efforst focused). Those results being more customers but also an opportunity for others to express their creativity. And isn't much of creativity a deeply personal and ofetn introverted avtivity? =)

*goes back to new Facebook effort* lol

I see myself with more extroverted tendencies, and I would say that my co-worker is more introverted. I too would like to look/read more into this relationship between introverts and social media. Very interesting.

I have several Twitter accounts and have experimented with their use in promotion of personal efforts (subquark.com), group efforts (iliveisl.com), and corporate efforts (hotelearning.com). I'll use the group effort to offer myself as a poster child to your viewpoint.

My group promotion has gone well and I have received two projects and 4 new customers in the last month from it. Its Twitter account is supposedly in the top 1% of all Tweeters according to twitter.grader.com and also worth $614 via tweetvalue.com (lol, I have no idea why anyone would want to buy it though).

This Twitter account goes beyond one level of introversion. The account profile is of a fictitious spokesperson (think Erin Esurance or the Geico Gecko) who is an avatar in a virtual world. So the account does not even represent a real person in any way.

Hmm, something to tweet about! Thanks Janet, very well written post. =)

Thoughts?

I do think what's interesting is that introverts are often accused of being “antisocial,” but you can see from our extensive use of social media that it isn't that we don't like to connect with people. It's that we have a greater need for what Darren called getting social content in a measured way.

I agree with Tom that introverts often have great social skills, but somehow extroverts seem to define what “social” means. My husband is very outgoing and talkative (which most people define as “social”), but a few weeks ago we met someone who in the first few minutes told us that while everyone called her a certain name, she didn't like it and preferred another version of her name. My husband didn't hear that she preferred the other name–too busy thinking about the next anecdote he would tell–so proceeded to call the woman by the name she said she DIDN'T like, until I pointed out to him what she'd said. I'd argue that I was being more “social,” in the sense of being attuned to and listening what this person had to say and responding to it. But because I wasn't dominating the conversation with stories, etc., most people wouldn't see me that way. So it's definitions that are part of the whole issue of what is “social” too–at least in my mind.

–quote start–
thoroughly introverted, unsociable, egoistic, and ornery individualists take to (social media) like ducks to water

social media amplifies the human traits of social manipulation and exploitation
successful social media efforts are fueled by self-interest

social media attracts extroverted, harmony-seeking, consensus-driven people who end up carcasses
–quote end–

1. Since when is being an individual 'unsocialistic'?

2. Since when is using civil methods to study and challenge the problems forced on everyone from bullies 'ornary'?

3. If someone is putting her thoughts out there for millions to see, how is that 'introverted'? (I think the source of these bullets would prefer everyone stand in ranks and do jumping jacks all day long…and pay a tax for each jumping jack because of the increased CO2 emissions from breathing harder).

4. Yes, social media amplifies the fact that if you are feeling or thinking something, you're probably not alone. Sometimes there is power in numbers, and the REAL scam artists do not like this.

Some folks would rather be a carcass from a fair fight than a 'slave' bent to rank and file socializum. Some people use social media to exploit…but at least now the explited have a field from which to defend themselves or even fight back.