Are you a people-person or a loner?
 

...or maybe both?
With my job I interact with students and staff nearly every minute 5 days a week, but when I need to unwind I need to be by myself. Even tho I love my family and friends and my job, I am pretty ok being a loner.

neither or both. . . not sure.

That's a damn good question, and I have to say that, by and large, I have always been a loner. And I like it.

But I have a wife and child, and friends and co-workers in my life......however, my alone time is extremely important to me, and I do not try hard to "socialize" with groups of people, generally.

This might partially explain my presence here, hahaha......or maybe not.

i mind my own biz

I am very clearly a people person. I love everybody, and everybody loves me.

Kind of oscillate between the two.

a bit of both, depending on the situation, but i've been gravitating toward being a "people-person" in recent years.

working alone from home has taught me that i'm a huge extrovert.

i'm a people person when i'm with the right people...

but i need loads of "me time."

even split. every time I take a test I come up 50% introvert, 50% extrovert. makes for a good dj - I can control the whole room and say very little except for taking requests.

I come up 50% between right and left brain too.

both.

I don't like people and I don't like to be around people but for some reason people love me and cling to me, so who knows. I'm the most popular loner of all time.

both. i love being around people i like, i hate being around people i dislike, and from time to time i need to lock myself away and get my head in order.

dig the sig

loner, pretty much. or an individualist, better said.

Just like me.

I really can't stand most people. life is more peaceful without the cacophony of intruding thoughts.

next stop: the hermitage.

Another point about myself, because this thread is such a great example of communal individuality, is that I've almost always had a very small ground of friends (though the cabals have changed almost always in relation to school). But this tendency to few close friends has never been anything that I've consciously willed. Even when I attempted to break this down and be friendlier generally, nothing would come of it. It is with them, the small group (7 to 10 people), that I move into society and move out of it given my mood.

if you start being friendlier, in going to be so disappointed.

:(

Well great you just broke the individuality chain by replying to me. Totally pissing on the lovely painting. Hope you're happy.

But I think friendlier is the wrong word, maybe more socially engaged. Friendliness can be creepy sometimes.

This pretty much sums it up.

A loner. I'm alright with that.

I'm a people-person when I'm alone and I feel totally alone amongst people.

... ?

I am a people-person. I like interacting with people and sharing experiences. To me there is no difference between being with one person or 30 or twenty thousand (at a concert or sports event). communal experience is my fave.
I think, because I was a loner (not by choice) for most of my youth, I seek out community more than other people may.

My g/f has had to teach me to appreciate alone time. It was an undertaking.

we live all in our heads anyways, when ti comes right down to it, and sometimes to me, it feels like if an experience is not shared then it may as well have not happened to the outside world , or to put it another way, an experience had alone can be deep and profound and exhilirating, but because it was only experience by the self, it may as well be treated like a dream, or a hallucination. it is something that will only mean anything to the self.
that's not a bad thing or a good thing, but having lived inside my own head for much of my first 18 years of life, it feels somewhat empty.

just ramblin.

I love to read and that is ussually a purely personal alone experience, unless someone is reading out loud.

Loner, but late as of year ago I have been a people-person.

Social interactions were fun until I was 10 yo.
Then I had to have opinions on a lot of things I have no influence upon, like economic crisis, war in the middle east, left wing/right wing .. "choose your side and hate the other one".

Both.

I love to be around my friends and meeting new people can be a lot of fun. On the other hand, I'm a huge loner when it comes to school. I refuse to make friends and I like it that way.

I'd say Both. I can be friendly but I don't go out of my way to really talk to peoples. If someone takes some kind of interest on me I gladly return the favor

I don't mind interacting with people but I have a tendency to get real bored of them quickly.

I dont think im antisocial but im always being told I am by my friends. Fuck my friends.

I'm popular with people when I decide it's ok to be. When I'm not, I'm really not.

this

When you want ''me'' time you spend it on the internet.

not always, though admittedly i fuck around on here and fbook quite a bit when i have time to kill but when i'm by myself i like to lay in the bathtub and smoke and listen to records a lot, or play instruments, or paint.

half half? I find it very difficult to find people I get on with, so generally dislike 'people' and being around them.. which makes me a loner a lot of the time. I also take a while to 'talk' when I'm around new people, I'm more of a listener... this can often be mistaken for rudeness or being shy. I'm not.. just.. a fussy listener. When I do find friends I get on with though, I like being around them.

mmmhmm. this too.


I'm lonesome when you're around and I'm never lonesome when I'm by myself

you seem to be quite a similar type of personality as I am.

it makes sense.. :D

i'm a loner baby

Phoenix, that last line is the best damn quote ever. You rock!
BTW,wouldn't that be a great title for a song?

like most people here i'm a mild introvert. sure, i love going out, seeing people, talking to strangers, roaming through a city, but nothing beats spending the whole day without getting out of bed (with kitchen and bathroom excursions, of course).