I went through a really bad spell of that stuff myself for a few years. I had all the symptoms of what they call social anxiety disorder these days. It’s a thing of the past for me now, that shit get’s easier with age if you keep working at it, but back then I found the Internet to be invaluable for somewhere I could still express myself regardless of being socially inept.

Actually I probably still have trouble clicking with people I have nothing in common with, but who doesn’t? Yep it’s great meeting people who you already know you have something in common with.

wish i had been in class that day, because it’s so much harder to learn stuff like that as an adult, although it can be done. i’ve become about a billion times more social than i used to be. and once apon a time, on an internet that seemed much smaller then it all, it all started with a blog. i’m a little relieved however that copies of that early blog don’t seem to be archived anywhere

I write a fashion/ style blog and have done so for nearly a year now and have been participating in online fashion communities for nearly two years. As many of my friends have no interest in fashion, I have to look elsewhere and have met some truly wonderful and interesting friends from this interest.

The assumptions made about style bloggers are far worse than what you mentioned there. I’ve heard vain, shallow, spoilt and self-absorbed being used to describe us when it’s just a small percentage of that group who are like that.