slominer: Good question. Surely there are great arguments to say the opposite.
Still, this is what happens when someone’s posting on the internet:
There is a person looking at a screen somewhere, and having conversations in one’s head and replying to them. I’m not orally speaking as I type this. There are no other humans in the room. If I were to have this conversation with another human, in a place with other humans, with additional voices, I might feel drained after prolonged communication. Online though, I feel that I can post and manage the communication.
Now, if someone only posted when in a group, and read all the posts aloud, and made it a community event where all of this posting was really just a small piece of a great real-life open party, then maybe it’s more extroverted.
Okay… sorry if I didn’t answer your question.
Sometimes, I’m on my phone, and reading/participating in the CR. Meanwhile, I may be standing in the grocery store line. I might be outside with my dog. If I wanted to be more extroverted, I could have struck up conversation with someone there, or at least made eye contact. But no. I like being in the CR, because it keeps me learning, and lets me maintain boundaries.
Anyway… I’ve read CR posts and talked about it with real life people. Not everyone really gets it. It’s interesting, because I never was part of any online forum before the CR, or after. I just ask questions and reply here. Okay, I’m done talking.
The end 🙂