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You know what the weird thing is? I'm just the opposite. In real life there's something about talking to other people that I find intimidating, so much so that I almost never talk to people I don't know well. This, of course, makes getting to know people well difficult, so I end up stuck in that not knowing anybody well enough to talk to them phase perpetually. I suspect that there are people who are the same way on message boards.
The first time I signed up for a board, it was one quite a bit larger than this one and I felt as intimidated as I did my first day of college. I'd gone from a small, rural, all-white high school to a University with 30,000 students of a variety of ethnicities and backgrounds, and it was immensely intimidating. I let that intimidation keep me from fully engaging everything available, and never had the college experience most look forward to.
A community is partly what you take from it, and partly what you add to it. Don't worry about the latter; if you participate such that you're getting feedback and having conversations and getting something out of this place in that way, you'll be adding to it without even knowing.
Gilda
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