Here’s a zinger of a subscriber comment…<\/p>\n
“Ben I’ve tried to connect with you on various social media sites and noticed you take a very long time to befriend me back and don’t follow very many people on Twitter. No offense but you’re kind of a narcissist on social media, that’s my friendly opinion \ud83d\ude42 “<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Agreed.<\/p>\n
But don’t take it personally.<\/p>\n
It’s not you, it really IS me.<\/p>\n
You see, a little while back one of my friends urged me to take one of those personality tests just for S&G’s and turns out I’m a dyed-in-the-wool “INTJ.”<\/p>\n
Some people had been telling me this for years.<\/p>\n
(Guess they were right…)<\/p>\n
I’ve heard we’re what the scary villians in movies are based on.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Detached.<\/p>\n
Aloof.<\/p>\n
Always living inside our own minds.<\/p>\n
In fact, most Hollywood stories do evolve around an evil villain (INTJ) threatening the old order, so a nice guy comes around to save it, then everyone is happy again to preserve the precious “status quo” which my brood tends to despise.<\/p>\n
We can’t be bothered by social pleasantries, either.<\/p>\n
Not enough time.<\/p>\n
(We got a world to conquer, after all…)<\/p>\n
Seriously, though — we’re the kind of people who are FAR more interested in the endless string of random problems\/solutions\/experiments\/questions circulating around in our brains at any given time than making “small talk” on FaceBook or Twitter or whatever. (It’s like Ralphie in “A Christmas Story” when he’s waiting to see Santa, his mind intensely focused on asking for the Red Ryder BB gun and his response to the girl hitting on him in line is… “leave me alone, I’m… thinking…”<\/em><\/strong> haha)<\/p>\n
I suppose this carries over to social media, too.<\/p>\n
Frankly, I find a lot of it amusing.<\/p>\n
Especially the social media goo-roos with 900 photos of themselves, with 350 videos, etc, constantly prattling on about their feelings and being “social”, blah blah blah<\/p>\n
Hey, we ALL have annoying faults.<\/p>\n
So let me make mine abundantly clear:<\/p>\n
I’m not social.<\/p>\n
I’m quite antisocial<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Which is probably why I prefer Twitter — since it’s only 140 characters and it forces us all to get to the point, with less noise.<\/p>\n
So that’s the deal.<\/p>\n
Never take my social media aloofness personal.<\/p>\n
If anything, it’s all in my head…<\/p>\n
Ben Settle<\/p>\n
P.S.<\/strong> I also happen to think INTJ’s make the best email marketers, too.<\/p>\n
I’ll explain why some day.<\/p>\n
But first, head on over to…<\/p>\n