Do you have trouble making a good first impression?

[ReGen 1,466]

Like the title says. It can be about dating, making new friends and stuff like that. Do you have a hard time leaving a good impression on someone?

[Moonlight 7,279]

Usually it depends on the person I'm talking to. Lately, I'm getting more and more shy and quiet about things in real life, so people assume I'm not really worth their time. People in school only seemed to like me for my intelligence; plus, they needed help with schoolwork, you can guess who helped them. 

 

With friends, I have around 3 friends, so it doesn't seem I make a good impression; wouldn't trade them for the World, though.

 

Relationship-wise, I make better impressions online, namely, because my relationship is online. 

 

Overall, I'm better at making good impressions online, rather than in real life. 

 

So,

 

Online = Good impression most of the time

Real Life = Bad impression most of the time

[Gone Airbourne 21,969]

I wouldn't honestly know at this point in time :/ so I am just going to go with how things are. Mostly everyone I once knew no longer talks to me any longer and even as I went through out high school not many people found me that appealing as a person and were more attracted to others personalities. I guess it just depends how outgoing you are as a person and how you carry yourself. But I certainly know as of late I have been fighting with myself and who I am as person.... as odd and strange as that may sound to you.

Edited July 3, 2013 by Gone ϟ Airbourne

[Ruddboy Olaf 10,627]

Yes! Very much!

 

I may be social and open on the internet!

 

But,when i meet people in real life,i freeze up!

 

I try to talk as less as possible!

 

I am real shy when it comes to socialism!

 

(Sometimes my voice will crack and sometimes i interrupt!)

 

(To be honest,I hate my voice!!)

 

So yes,i am terrible with making first impressions!

[Quilava 1,290]

Just talking in general I have a problem with. First impressions, like IMMEDIATE, first impressions I can be okay with. But with the entire meeting, it's so easy for me to choke up. 

 

Even if, to some on here (you know who you are), I seem quite lax and open, I quite a hard time even trying to say hello to others. I just feel that my interests are boring and would amount to nothing to others who I'd like to meet and, possibly, become friends with. 

A good amount of friends that I have here came to me and started talking to me. I have absolutely no skill when it comes to small talk, 'ts just easier for me to sit and listen, comment on their story/statement/etc., then continue to listen.

[~Squishy Skies~ 756]

Yes... 

 

I feel like I'm a different species than everyone else. People don't treat me like they treat others. They treat me as if I was an alien from the Hydroquadrant, or something. I'm always getting strange looks, whether I'm doing anything or not. I'm also bad at eye contact, which doesn't give an impression of confidence.

 

I don't know. I don't feel right being a human sometimes. I wish I was born a monkey 

[Smarts 1,620]

 

 

Like the title says. It can be about dating, making new friends and stuff like that. Do you have a hard time leaving a good impression on someone?

 

Like you wouldn't even believe. I can't start conversations for one thing. I can't carry a conversation secondly. And don't even get me started on dating because that is nightmarish. So, the answer to that question is yes.

 

As for online, it is way easier for me to make a good first impression since I can say what's on my mind without having to worry about embarrassing myself because I'm not face to face with another person. So, online the answer to that question would be no.

[Shiki 5,853]

Online, no one likes me from the beginning. No one. I use the internet as a way of being my true self, which, since I cannot seem to express myself fully in real life, it comes out much too intensely. 

 

In real life, I'm pretty sure every one instantly falls in love with me. I am extremely polite, and would basically do anything to help out a stranger. It's odd; I'm not forcing myself to, I just simply want to, and I enjoy it. All of my positivity and kindness seems to leave as soon as I get a keyboard in front of me. Also, I am simply good with socialising, nowadays, in real life. I have no trouble getting up in front of people and speaking, and I can easily read/understand people very quickly. I've also gotten exponentially more confident over the years, so I can easily make certain that my first impression is a good one. At least, with peers. Adults, not so much. I feel too overpowered, so I cannot wurk mai mojo. 

[Friendship_Cannon 1,676]

On the Internet? I don´t even know, seriously... I usually just am myself and see how it works out, not trying to adjust the picture of myself too much. I can start a conversation and carry it on for a bit, I care for people once I made them friends, but I can, too be bored if the other person doesn´t make any effort to f.e. keep a conversation up. So, online it´s a half-half thing...

 

In real life I don´t make the worst impression ususally, for some reason my friends see me as very relaxed (the ones who don´t know me long enough don´t know about problems in the past and didn´t believe it really as I told them). I am friendly, polite, a bit crazy and not too bad looking (I just say that, speaking from what me and my friends think)...

Oh, in real life I can be very shy at times, especially when I´m in a bad mood, happens not very often lately.

 

So, I don´t usually have problems, but that is just my view of things xD.

[ReverseFaller 2,483]

Yes, I'm awkward as heck! Usually I can get past this just fine if the other person shares the same interests as me. Gaming doesn't work too well though since everyone seems to be a gamer nowadays. If it's music/anime, or even ponies, stuff like that breaks the ice SO well for me.

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 40,237]

While I have trouble on the Internet as well, it is at least 10,000x worse offline. I am almost a completely different person. I always fear that I am not making a good first impression, so I think I am not good at it in general. My offline social life is basically non-existent. If the conversation goes to subjects that really interest me, then maybe it might get better, but most of the time I am just incredibly awkward...

[James 302]

Yeah, absolutely, I don't think I've ever come across as anything more than a bungling idiot. Once you get to know me though I'm....actually....still very unlikeable.

[Oh Akatosh why 43]

I'm absolutely horrible at making first impression's! Usually whenever I meet someone IRL my entire body seize's up, After i get to know people my (few friend's) tell me i'm extremely outgoing! Danm-it shyness.

[Shanks 10,811]

I manage okay on making first impressions for the most part at least when it comes to making new friends though it wasn't a skill that came easily to me. Dating on the other hand seems to bring out my inner Fluttershy, I often over think things out of fear of saying or doing the wrong thing.

[Wolf-Boy 54]

I feel like I don't, but people say that isn't the case. Its weird.....I can't carry a conversation, yet people still talk to me quite often. Dating-wise, another yes, oddly. I don't see how I make good first impressions, with how I dress and how I'm always listening to my music at full volume.

Edited July 3, 2013 by Wolf-Boy

[Lunas Husband 2,777]

Ah some times I have bucked it up xD but I would say more then half the time I do a really good job! well ok not really good... but I would say good..

[Geminii 71]

I'd say my first impressions depend on the person I am meeting. For me, it seems like a waste of time making acquaintances so I don't even bother. As far as people online go, I can't get past the thought that it is just words in a box. The box does not care about me, nor do I it. Can't say I try to make a good impression, I just be myself and let relationships form naturally.

[Sweet Dreams 1,892]

I always screw up a first impression, that's why I find it hard to make new friends. But when I come out if my shell a bit, i end up great friends with the person. That's why the people I haven't made friends with really don't like me, and my best friends love me, because they got to know me past the first impression.

[ChoroChii 284]

I usually worry about my first impression and get really nervous when metting people I've been wanting to meet but it's over all usually all good.

[Fluttershyfan94 5,737]

Usually my first impressions are good actually, I don't screw it up until I've actually talked for a while. That it is when it comes to friends, I have never dated. So I think I do often make good first impressions, at least I think so. Though because I'm shy and social anxiety and all that usually prevents me from making an impression at all.

[Retro*Derpy 3,078]

Yeah, big time too. I try to act normal but it just ends up with mixed words and an awkward situation. 

[Solid 1,326]

I make excellent second impressions.

[Zyrael 1,471]

I make a great first impression which I proceed to ruin immediately after

[Dreambiscuit 8,021]

I usually make a good first impression. I smile a lot and that usually helps, and I'm also kind of laid back and friendly. I try to dress well for all occasions and make the effort to be all things to all people, be it professional or personal. 

I often think back on things later on and wonder if I said the right thing or the wrong thing, but that's just over analyzing things. For all I know people are giving me the finger when I'm not looking, but I remain in a state of blissful ignorance. 

[TBD 17,228]

Not really, but then again people shouldn't expect too much.