do you easily open up yourself to strangers.....

when do you sleep dan? hehe let's just say that i'm very shy and introvert (which again, nobody will ever believe lol) but i can easily talk to strangers... no problem. perhaps because i travel a lot, or because of my line of work, or coming from a very big family. as for opening myself up to strangers... that depends. depending on what information or experience i will be sharing, how the stranger responded to me, the mood that i am in and the situation that led to the conversation. there are private things that will remain private, whereas there are some for public consumption. it's easy to talk to strangers about all kinds of stuff, especially if he's a good listener and quite receptive without being judgemental. sometimes you can sense if the stranger is going to be a friend or remain a temporary acquaintance or that if he can relate to you and what you are going through. people with the same life/love story or problem or experience naturally strikes up a conversation because of that common thing that drew them together. when one seeks someone to talk to, seeks an advice that is not biased, seeks an objective reasoning... it's so easy to open up to a stranger. but it still depends on several factors like i mentioned above. well... that is just me and my experience. of course, different people do it differently i believe. somehow i'm wondering if this discussion/topic is partially directed at me because of that elusive story you are raring to know... hahaha

Hi Dear! Opening up with new friends will depend upon many factors. If s/he is an on-line friend, I do not mind sharing about me, provided the other fellow is interested in knowing about me and also comfortable in sharing about him/her. In real life, I do not open up with strangers very soon. It takes some time. If I feel that I am able to understand the nature of the stranger and s/he is going to gel with me, then only I start sharing about me. Basically, I am a shy person.........LOL!

I don't open up to strangers easily at all. It may seem that way to some people because I have no issues striking up a conversation or talking about many different things, but personal information about myself will be kept very close to my chest until such time as I've reached a level of trust and comfort woth a person. The time it takes for me to reach this level depends on the person and the situation really. Sometimes it can take a matter of days, sometimes months! There are many people I've known for years even that I wouldn't ever share personal information with. Every situation is different. I just hope I'll always have the wisdom to know who I can trust and who I can't!

Sometimes, it's easier to talk to your friends online than to your family or friends at home because they give unbiased advices. I have observed that I got different reactions from my online friends to things I said than from the ones at home. I do not really share everything, but somethings which can be told with no harm done is fine. I don't think it will be a problem if you open up to strangers, until and unless you are sure they can be trusted. bourne

I generally don't have any problem with this. I'm pretty much a fairly easy-going kind of guy. I enjoy making new friends, and let's face it also...one thing the world needs more of, is friends. cdrxo

Hello. Some basic info's will do but not all out especially when we just met on the internet, maybe it'll took a weeks, but it's still depends my feeling towards him/her, if i feel like he/she is a good person,then why not become friends,right?. I think it's dangerous if we open up easily to a stranger some information about us,especially those confidential information that's why we need to take a lot of care when we talk to strangers. Happy mylotting.

Here on MyLot where no one knows my real name , I will tell stories about my life if can help. In real life I won't tell anything until I know you real well. My Mylot friends know more about my past than my offline friends. Don't get me wrong, if a close friend asks a question I'll answer but I don't just tell them.

I meet people well, comes from working in the public for 47 years i guess. I think u just automatically feel closer to some people the first time u meet them or talk to them on here but i'm not real big on opening up to people until i get to know them better. Some people u just feel more comfortable w/than others.

I put on a good show, I am on the surface a very open person, you can ask me almost anything and I will give you a straight answer, but I rarely let anyone in to my inner thoughts.

Immediately, but I can be very talkative and friendly at the beginning, but then very quite once the situation is heat up. I don't know how to talk when the situation is become louder and happier. But of course I will join in if there is a laugh and I will laugh also. I have a terrible social skill. But I can say I'm a helpful person, and if that person even a stranger ask for my help, I would gladly help and sometimes even when that person don't ask for my help, I will still offer my help if I see that person in difficulties

for me i am easy to open up myself to them if i think they are just common people as me.most of people are kindly i think.don't think that they are different from you a lot.good attitude will be helpful i think.

It is easy for me to accept a friend as my friend even they were a strangers, but not easy for me to trust them just in a short period. Being open up to a new friends i don't think that's a wise decisions for me because i don't know them well, and they don't to me too.

Hahahahaha - I'm following your discussions again! They're good discussions - I must say! So good job on piquing my interest every time! I usually don't open myself up to strangers. I think a lot of people see me as someone who is hard to talk to or unapproachable even. Maybe shy. I mean, they'll like my smile and maybe comment about it. But once the talking starts, I don't give a lot of responses. It takes getting to know me to really enjoy my personality. Some of my friends - who were once strangers - once they get to know me have been really surprise with how "funny" I am or how fun it is to be around me. How long does it take: hmmmm, it differs from person to person. I just based it all on the vibes I'm getting from that person. Cheers, kaibigan!

It would all depend on the topic. Siple topics like this, no time at all. Harder topics a few days. Really personal topics about a week. because you really don't have a clue to my true idenity I can say anything and still be pretty safe and still maintain some private facts as to the basic truth of the matter. And opening up is still safe.