Hi. I just found this site this week. After years of identical agenda-driven interchanges with men online, my expectations are extremely low for any online social activity I engage in.

Unfortunately for me, I am very introverted and shy, which sends men away when they start requesting more and more photos and trying to get me on the webcam or trying to get me on Skype at a point where I don't even know the guy's first name and often don't even know what he looks like. I am so much slower than that. Give me a month of conversation first, for Pete's sake, I don't even know you, I don't want you invading my home and sanctuary on a webcam already.

I am also very lonely in my real life, because on top of being introverted and shy, I am also quite socially awkward and both lousy at and put off by superficial chit-chat. I find it very difficult to break through people's "exoskeleton" and get to the real person underneath and I have little interest in dealing with people's social exoskeletons. For me, I have to know that what is under their surface is safe for me, and only then can I feel comfortable being more light-hearted with them.

Thus, to anyone I feel may be sufficiently compatible with me and who is willing to put in the time, the sincerity and the investment in a real friendship, which may or may not become more if you are a man, I am open.

Everything starts with conversation online.

Thanks :)

Hello angelflow, good luck and all the best!

Actually, I find that being socially awkward works in my favor. It weeds out a lot of the jerks and scammers rather quickly since I am on high alert anyway. It's too bad that there are so many of them.