Just the title of this article is painting a broad picture. Why is it always a binary choice to be introverted or extroverted? Or introverted or just rude? One

Just the title of this article is painting a broad picture. Why is it always a binary choice to be introverted or extroverted? Or introverted or just rude? One thing I have noticed in tech in the past 10 years is that there are more and more people drawn into it who are more extroverted than introverted. This may partially be explained by the increasing appeal of being a geek in today's popular culture/zeitgeist. Being a geek decades ago was not cool. Now, it is almost sort of accepted to be a geek, to the point where some people will try to seem geekier than they really are. Honestly, I don't give a damn about "Doctor Who". For me, if you really want to "control the conversation" like another commenter said, you don't have to do that. Just take the lead. It is not about being an introvert or extrovert. Be someone who invites people out to do something or asks people if they want to be introduced (and then introduces them - yes, it is not so binary as this can't be an e-introduction v. personal face-to-face introduction). Be more active, less passive. As I've ranted before, introverts are not always introverts. As Susan Cain talks about in her somewhat-too-popular book called "Introverts", the brilliant Professor Lewin (before he was rightly discredited and tarnished by his sexual harassment problems) proclaimed himself a performer and an introvert. There is no black or white. Everyone has fifty shades of extroversion and introversion in them. Stop this divide and conquer. Just be yourself. If you don't feel like going outside for three days, just do it. If you feel like social interaction is binge liking your entire facebook feed, go for it. If to you, you feel it is a net loss to go out to certain social outings, then you have a choice. It can be a net loss, if you are stuck in your head the entire time and thinking 'what do they think about me, what do they think about me' the entire time like a skipping CD. It is all in your head. We all make stories about the world to provide 'evidence' that the world is like X. However, it seems to be, through talking with my extrovert friends, that they don't even have that beat poetry selfish mantra in their head - they just talk to people and find out what that other person is like. Talk to that cute girl or cute guy or 'they'.