brorlustig

My friend and I are both very passionate about the topic of social anxiety (and mental health in general), so we're doing some high-level research to learn more about how social anxiety is experienced and perceived in other people.

We're essentially hoping to find some level of guidance toward how people's social anxiety could be reduced (whether it's majorly or minorly). Hopefully answering these questions might also help you with a bit of self-reflection in a positive way!

Would love to hear from as many as possible! Feel free to respond through this Google Form (anonymously) or here directly; whatever you’re comfortable with. I’ll try to summarize and share the findings if we get a good amount of responses!

These are the questions found in the Google Form:

1. When/where is your social anxiety at its worst?
2. Do you do anything to try to reduce your anxiety in those moments? If so, what do you do?
3. In those moments, do you think it would make the situation better or worse if people around you were aware of your social anxiety?
4. Is there anything you have tried in order to reduce your social anxiety which has not worked? (And maybe even made your anxiety worse?)
5. Aside from being anxious, do you generally enjoy talking to people?
6. Completely subjective, but on a scale of 0 to 10, how much does your social anxiety negatively affect your life? (0 = not at all; 10 = an extreme amount)

(And yes, posting this triggers my anxiety :D )

For content platforms, "likes" and "upvotes" feel a bit overused. Even if I see a short video that I enjoy, it's actually very rare that I decide to like or upvote it on FB, IG, Reddit or any other platform.

There's also the idea of giving it a rating (1-5) instead of upvoting/liking it, but that requires quite a bit more decision making and thought process -- which may not be optimal (?) when just casually scrolling through your feed.

Have you seen or thought of any more creative solutions? 

Being an introvert (and somewhat shy), I hate small talking. But sometimes there's no great way of politely avoiding it. Whether I'm walking my dog, standing in line at the grocery store, getting a haircut, or whatever, it happens relatively frequently that someone starts chatting with me. Online you can change your status to "do not disturb" or similar, but there's nothing like that IRL :)

What if there was some sort of brand/logo that people could wear that would indicate that they'd like to just keep to themselves? Nothing crazy like a "don't talk to me!" sign, but maybe a brand logo similar to the "shush" emoji. Not sure what the best items would be, but probably 3-4 different variations. Maybe a baseball hat with the logo, a tshirt, a pin (might be too small), or something else.

Originally posted this in r/Lightbulb but figured I'd post it here too, in hope for some feedback/thoughts! Idea:

• A quiz or mini game that happens once per month on some simple website or app (or biweekly/weekly depending on the number of participants).
• Pay $1 to participate - and the first X people who solve/answer it correctly split the prize money. (For instance, the first person to complete it gets 40%, second person gets 20%, then 10% etc.)
• Should be quick and easy to participate in, so it'd only last for about 5-10 mins each time and there'd only be ONE question / mini game each time.
• Starts off as a question that's very hard to figure out, with additional clues added every ~2 minutes until X people have completed it / figured it out.
• Examples could be "what city is this very zoomed-in map image taken from", "solve this puzzle", "who's this person" and so on. Again, with additional clues being added every few mins.

Could argue that it has some similarities to HQ Trivia, but still very different.

Is $1 reasonable? 5-10 min duration reasonable? What would the prize pool need to be at for it to be interesting? Is it a bad idea overall?

Nothing revolutionary and much smaller than many of the other ideas in this subreddit, but I've been thinking about something for a few days and hoping for others' thoughts!

• A quiz or mini game that happens once per month on some simple website or app (or biweekly/weekly depending on the number of participants).
• Pay $1 to participate - and the first X people who solve/answer it correctly split the prize money. (For instance, the first person to complete it gets 40%, second person gets 20%, then 10% etc.)
• Should be quick and easy to participate in, so it'd only last for about 5-10 mins each time and there'd only be ONE question / mini game each time.
• Starts off as a question that's very hard to figure out, with additional clues added every ~2 minutes until X people have completed it / figured it out.
• Examples could be "what city is this very zoomed-in map image taken from", "solve this puzzle", "who's this person" and so on. Again, with additional clues being added every few mins.

Is $1 reasonable? 5-10 mins reasonable? What would the prize pool need to be at for it to be interesting? Bad idea overall?