Same here, I must say. My dominant hypothesis right now is that for people like us, having a huge audience actually dilutes the our sense of shyness, in the sense that the more people there are, the more it allows for the shyness to “spread out” across those people, whereas with a one-to-one interaction, there’s little to no dilution since you’re focusing all your energies on this one person in front of you.
Same here, I must say. My dominant hypothesis right now is that for people like us, having a huge audience actually dilutes the our sense of shyness, in the sense that the more people there are, the more it allows for the shyness to “spread out” across those people, whereas with a one-to-one interaction, there’s little to no dilution since you’re focusing all your energies on this one person in front of you.