Teaching is obviously easier and more enjoyable if you are a people person person, and you also have a lot more fun and impact as a blogger if you like joining in yer ELT Chats and whathaveyous. I stand here before you as proof, however, that you can be just about adequate at both even if you have limited online and offline social skills and no particular interest in improving them. I’ve therefore written this blog post to give an opportunity for all TEFLers and TEFL bloggers who shiver at the sound of “networking” or “social media” to stand together…

…although obviously not actually together. Preferably not even too close to each other, in fact.

Anyone else care to share tales of being a social inadequate outside the classroom but more or less ordinary within it? Alternatively, anyone want to contradict me with a claim that it is exactly the people who stare at your forehead when they are speaking to you and sweat excessively when there is any silence in the conversation who should never be allowed to pass the CELTA? Have your say below please, although obviously don’t expect too much actual social interaction in the comments section…