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On a scale ranging from 0 to 10 how open are you ?

Asked by Hibernate (9091points) June 11th, 2011

The scale:
0 – very open
10 – surrounded by a turtle shell

How open are you to others ?
How much do you let them know about you ?
Do other get to know you easy or you let them find only some things about you.

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Hibernate's avatar

I’ll start.
I’m about a 5. I let some know and find some things while keeping a lot hidden for a later time.

I do tell some of the basics but most of them are to be found by themselves.
Not all around me know everything about me ^^

Berserker's avatar

Fuckin zero. I have a wall. ’‘pats her wall’’

Problem is, it’s always crumbling…

Bellatrix's avatar

About a 10… too open.

MilkyWay's avatar

At first I’m not open at all. Definitley a 0. Then, slowly I start to be more and more open with that person… to probably a 7 or 8.

ANef_is_Enuf's avatar

I would say a 1. I’m extremely open.. to a fault, really. I always say too much.

Berserker's avatar

I thought zero was closed and ten open, but it’s the other way around, and so…ah wtv ’‘wall’’

Bellatrix's avatar

lol I am a 0 then… giggles… we hijacked another thread.

Sorry @hibernate.

Berserker's avatar

@Bellatrix Fuck we’re good. Like cowboys. And pirates.

MilkyWay's avatar

@Symbeline What are you hiding behind that wall? Hmm?

Berserker's avatar

@queenie The question is, what am I hiding in my pants, am I right?

Bellatrix's avatar

I should have bought some thigh high boots like Captain Jack Sparrow. Leaves @Hibernate‘s very nice thread immediately.

Berserker's avatar

Prolly. :D

augustlan's avatar

I’m like, a negative 10. Extremely open, probably too much so for my own good. Still, I don’t think I’d change it.

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

Probably a 4. Past co-workers would disagree and say it is much higher, but that is because I didn’t talk about my personal life unless they asked.

JLeslie's avatar

The scale is the opposite of what most would assume, usually 10 would be very open, so you might get answers with the wrong number. I see you already got a couple.

Usually when you ask a question and give a 1–10, the ten is the thing that is stated. Your original question was how open are you, so you made open assumably the 10, if no one reads your clarification below. If you had said, how closed are you, then that would have become the 10 in most people’s mind. It is because 1–10 usually go from disagree to agree. Meaning a ten would be strongly agree.

I am a 3 on your scale.

FutureMemory's avatar

@JLeslie Makes a good point. You often have your scale backwards.

ucme's avatar

Sesame!

MilkyWay's avatar

Ooops, I meant I am first 10 but then gradually turn to a 2 or 3.

creative1's avatar

Depends on the person, if I am very comfortable with them and think of them as a friend I tend to be a big zero to 1 but if something strikes me as weird or gets a red flag to go up then I tend to hit a huge 10 if it could go higher it would. So it would depend on the feeling I get from someone and what they are giving off to me. I also become very protective of my kids by the same respect and won’t let them be around those I am a 10 around.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

It depends on the person I am victimizing with all my personal problems…sometimes a 2,sometimes a 22.

beckk's avatar

I would say I am a 3. I am very open when people ask for information, but only with those I can trust.

Coloma's avatar

0–3

I’m all about openess, honesty, transparency and good humor!
:-D

woodcutter's avatar

I’m at 9. I dole out information on a “need to know basis” Very few people have that level of clearance.

raven860's avatar

I would like to say not open at all but I am not sure. The problem with not being open is that if you ever get into extreme trouble and can’t describe it to other people. People can judge you wrongly cause they don’t know you. I can’t say how relevant that advice is to anyone else, It’s just that something like that happened to me once.

rock4ever's avatar

6 I do let some people see my true colors, but not many, and not everything. I kind of just let most of my darker things stay hidden in a box in the shadows. Not even you guys know me fully, and you never will.

tinyfaery's avatar

Open enough to say I fuckin’ hate these 0–10 questions. HATE!

nailpolishfanatic's avatar

10+. I am way too open. I open up even to people I know for two days or so.
But I guess thats just the person that I am, I can’t really do anything about it.

creative1's avatar

@nailpolishfanatic you want to read the question again, 0 = really open and 10 = closed off lol

starsofeight's avatar

I am open for closure.

Hibernate's avatar

THANKS FOR REPLIES ^^

[ damn caps .. I hate laptops ]

Dr_Lawrence's avatar

I am probably way too open for my own good. I can keep other people’s secrets as long as my memory does not interfere but I am often willing to disclose information about myself, except in situations where I have reasons to not be trusting.

phoebusg's avatar

0 – I follow a path of complete honesty. Although I do believe in good delivery, so sometimes I hold off until A) I know what it actually is I want to say and B) when the listener is ready. Because a message that is not received – is a message wasted – and as good as not being sent.

Nullo's avatar

I’d say I’m about a 7, but I do have a door in my wall. Which I keep locked.
I also have a cheerful facade that’s in disrepair. I mostly use it on customers.

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