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Post by niceguy33m on Nov 26, 2005 8:54:26 GMT -5
My goal is to alert everyone who is shy and wanting to overcome social anxiety to meet in 1 central place. Wouldn't it be great to meet others with the same problem? There is this online community called Paltalk that allows people to join rooms and grab a microphone and start talking. It tells u how many people are listening so its kind of like speech 101. In other words if you get brave enough you can start presenting yourself to others and slowly work on overcoming those anxiety fears. I just wish that more shy people would discover it. So I guess us shy people need to advertise it more. By the way I am in no way at all associated with the Paltalk website. I just think it has amazing potential to help us people who suffer from shyness and social anxiety. Does anyone agree?
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Post by Scotty on Nov 26, 2005 21:18:08 GMT -5
Me and GF tried that paltalk thing, but we didn't like it, because for one, you had to hold a button to talk, and to get you're turn you had to 'raise your hand'. Also the sound quality wasn't that good for us. So, no thanks,lol.
If there was a better one out there, then maybe.
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Post by wagnerr on Nov 26, 2005 22:25:51 GMT -5
Me and GF tried that paltalk thing, but we didn't like it, because for one, you had to hold a button to talk, and to get you're turn you had to 'raise your hand'. Also the sound quality wasn't that good for us. So, no thanks,lol. If there was a better one out there, then maybe. This strongly reminds me of high school, which i really don't want to experience again.   |
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Post by saphron on Nov 27, 2005 1:12:31 GMT -5
I used to go on Pal Talk and sing karaoke all the time. It was pretty fun
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Post by GreenFerret on Nov 27, 2005 5:39:59 GMT -5
Me and GF tried that paltalk thing, but we didn't like it, because for one, you had to hold a button to talk, and to get you're turn you had to 'raise your hand'. Also the sound quality wasn't that good for us. So, no thanks,lol. If there was a better one out there, then maybe. This strongly reminds me of high school, which i really don't want to experience again. Very very confused... HUH??  OH the hand-raising...!! never mind, I'm just slow. ;D Guess I'd better get myself to bed.  |
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Post by Some Guy on Nov 27, 2005 10:44:40 GMT -5
Sounds pretty interesting to me, maybe Ill try that.
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Post by reject29 on Nov 28, 2005 21:44:07 GMT -5
paltalk sux.
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Post by mere phantom on Nov 30, 2005 23:54:29 GMT -5
why not just start your own yahoo voice chat
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Post by shypsychologyguy on Dec 15, 2005 0:42:29 GMT -5
goo0d idea that ive mentioned when I first came to thi sight.
mabye what we can do is have a section for the guys and a section for the girls (Not what your thinking Read On)
the guys post the topic they want to dicsuss and a time to discuss it and leave an aim, yahoo adress and if any girls want to practice talking to a member of the oposite sex then they can respond with saying they are intrested and at what time . and the same thing for the girls.
this would be hard to organize probly and would be more one on one but I think it would be good nonetheless.
heres an example
Guys thread: Girl at work
breif description of situation
time 7 - 9
bobjone@aim.com
Girl : Id love to discuss this with you say around 8.
I dont know seems like typing would be faster but it was a different idea and mabye it could work.
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Post by feyish on Dec 16, 2005 23:15:12 GMT -5
the internet is great, but how are you going to learn practical things like making eye contact so people don't think you've got something to hide? talking on-line is totally different than talking to someone in real life. Life is the real challenge.
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Post by Paulinus on Dec 17, 2005 8:44:53 GMT -5
the internet is great, but how are you going to learn practical things like making eye contact so people don't think you've got something to hide? talking on-line is totally different than talking to someone in real life. Life is the real challenge. Well it could at least help you converse with people and improve you skills at that, and give you less to worry about when it comes to talking to someone in real life. |
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Post by feyish on Dec 18, 2005 2:07:46 GMT -5
yeah, your right. i may have just a little less to worry about. maybe what is 'therapudic' about the internet, and this forum, is knowing that there are other people out there with many of the same problems, and also from hearing sucess stories. i still kinda disagree that the internet could teach very many social skills.
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Post by B on Dec 27, 2005 20:52:48 GMT -5
When I was 17 and a mute little loner and I first used a chatroom it was great and it did help me build a bit of confidence. But this was a chatroom that was usually used by people who lived where I lived, so we weren't really anonymous (that is, being a small town, we all knew who each other was and actually saw each other often). I don't really use chatrooms anymore just because people get to be so obnoxious in them. Anonymity let's people act like pricks and get away with it.
It's not really anything like a typical social interaction unless all your social interactions take place among angry drunk people. If anything I think that I was worse off using chatrooms just because I was always so negative and ended up just using them every night to vent instead of actually being out with people.
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