I know that the majority of truly creative people are solicitous. When I say 'truly creative' I mean people who were born with creative talents that they themselves did nothing to acquire. The innately creative are more prone to introversion – not by choice, per se, but by their very nature. There are of course people who will disagree with this, but then they probably smile all the time and take loads of prescription drugs.

I enjoy the creativity that God bestowed upon me and I find that being alone helps to nurture my creative endeavors. Another quote from your article also reverberated with me, "Amanda Guyer, a psychologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, has found that socially withdrawn people have increased sensitivity to all kinds of emotional interactions and sensory cues, which may mean that they find pleasure where others do not."

I can vouch for this myself. I find pleasure in the most simple and mundane of moments: watching the shadows of leaves on my curtains, listening to the rustle of leaves across the pavement, the day as it just begins to dawn. I do not think these spectacular things would even be noticed by some busy jabbering extrovert.

So in then end i am thankful to God for making me the way I am, because I have been given the gift of solitude and it is in the quite gaps between waking up and going to sleep that I have witnessed small glimpses of the beauty that is life.

The reason you did not find it is because it's in my personal blog here http://thistimethisspace.com/2007/08/08/all-loner…

Also starting a club for introverts sounds like an interesting proposition. Would all members agree not to communicate unless or until they feel they have something of value to share? If so, then count me in. If no,t then I cannot be relied upon to be chatty and "personal" online.

Offline and online I am genuinely the kind of woman who is a hard close to. But when I am in the company of those who are close to me I am affectionate, fun loving and supportive. I take note of body language, facial expressions and gestures and as I'm the animated type myself it's not difficult for others to determine what I am thinking in face-to-face conversations.

I do not derive an income from bogging and choosing to blog means I'm choosing to spend less times with friends and family. As I have twice escaped death I'm keenly aware that's it's those face-to-face relationships that are the most important ones of all. I'm not strongly inclined to increase my email load by exchanging personal information and confidences with people I'll never actually meet. It's okay with me if we remain acquaintances who dialog only in comment boxes on posts.

More introverts. I like it. Maybe we should start a club. Thanks for the comment and the follow. I don't worry about too many things these days, either. There was a time when I used to worry about everything, but not anymore. Nowadays my policy is "don't sweat the small stuff". There's enough issues in life without having to make mountains out of anthills.

I looked for that article on your blog and couldn't find it. I''d be interested in reading it. Have a link?

I strongly identified with your post because I am also an introvert and have blogged on being one in "All Loners Aren't Social Misfits".

Some people are great at small talk and some are capable of communicating something of value in 140 characters. I'm not good at either and I'm not sweating it.

I'm no longer tempted to become deeply involved in the social networking circuit again. In December I decided to pull way back.

I use twitter to post the titles and short link to my latest post. I tend to retweet more than I tweet. Like you I communicate with a few key people, and it will be my pleasure to follow you.

Personal interaction if fine with me as long as it's just one person. Any more than that and I start to develop this twitch…(see, it's happening as I write this). I agree about choosing just the ones we feel comfortable with, but for me Twitter is the only online social tool I use. It's enough just trying to come up with something to say in 140-characters-or-less let alone make it useful or pertinent.

A PR person I am not so when it comes to advertising myself and what I do I usually bug SBA for ideas (lol). I'm sure she's getting tired of me by now.

I also get overwhelmed with the variety of means we have for social interaction on the 'net. Maybe the key is not to agonize over the best means of marketing ourselves, but to choose the one or two that appeal to us most and to use them well and — most important — consistently.

They have so many amazing "Twitter" gadgets, don't they? I like Wordle and the Twitter List Converter .