For the first two years of my iwaku life, I was too anxious to dare write to people or write in the general chat etc. I mainly just spoke to the people I roleplayed with or had roleplayed with. I only wrote in the general chat for maybe one day during a three months time span, then I became too anxious after that day, cause I thought I might have said or would say something wrong so I stopped writing. o__o I have a problem with interaction with strangers...
But even so, I still looked around pretty much everywhere on the site and if someone contacted me whom I hadn't come across on iwaku before, I always checked them up before responding. (Checking their posting history, checking their profile, blog etc.) I even checked people up when they hadn't contacted me, simply cause I saw them write in the general chat, and eventually I proclaimed myself da stalker of iwaku. :D
While I am better at interacting in the general chat now a days (I tend to still keep away from debates or discussions cause of the fear of saying something wrong, but other fun topics are stuff I can easily jump in on if I'm interested in the topic.) I can still feel slightly anxious if I start writing to people I haven't seen around on iwaku before cause I'm not used to them and don't know their limits when it comes to jokes and such. I: Which means I still check up on people completely randomly, no matter if I'm gonna talk to them or not, just to see who they are :D
-Proceeds to secretly stalk everyone in this thread-