My personal experience as a soially disfunctional geek is typically avoiding people just to avoid awkward greetings with people I barely know, but have nothing to say besides simple "hello". Moreover, I hate socializing on IRC or MMORPGs , talking with random people I will never meet. Mailing lists and newsservers are great as I can properly write(and receive back properly written) messages to(from) people I share common interests(OM group is not random people). <br>
<br>> Keep beeing happy and stay behind your computer.<br>> Thats what I should have done from the beginning.<br><br>I don't agree with this. Life is full of adventures, and trying to speak with girls, and failing big time is one of them. I have a small number of close friends, and all the rest of my peers are either people I know through them or people I work with. I met my girlfriend at the university, she's not as geeky as me but we have small set of common interests(engineering, science fiction, technology ...). She was one of my friend's classmates. I was so shy that I told her I like her by typing on my cell phone and making her read it. And guess what, it worked! We are together for 7 years now.<br>
<br>So go ahead and live your adventure, get your heart broken, repair it, and get it broken again. <br><br>PS: I like off topic messages in groups like these as long as they are not very common and properly marked as OT. <br>
-- <br>---------------------------------------------------------<br>Atilla Filiz<br>Eindhoven University of Technology<br>Embedded Systems, Master's Programme<br>--------------------------------------------------------<br>