Originally Posted by
Gilly
I guess if I'm an ILE, you could be one, too, but I don't think this is a very good reason to dismiss Beta altogether. I'm wondering if Expat would mind comparing us, since he's met us both.
Okay, not necessarily all of it from a socionics perspective.
- Gilly made a more friendly, open impression. It's not that he greeted me with a big smile and hugs but he seemed more easy-going and relaxed. Ezra was not unfriendly, but he seemed a bit wary.
- Ezra had a bit of an icy, very focused stare and expressionless face listening to me; he could be either thinking "this guy is an idiot, I hope he shuts up soon" or "what he says is very interesting" or "I wonder what the weather will be like tomorrow?". Very impenetrable, at least to me. Gilly seemed more easy-going.
- Likewise, Ezra seemed tense but not nervous, Gilly seemed a bit nervous, or even a bit worried, but not tense at all. It seems contradictory but that's the best way I can describe.
- Ezra did laugh when he found funny something I said; and we said goodbye he seemed far more relaxed.
- Ezra was considerably less talkative than Gilly.
Of course the above can merely reflect the fact that Gilly and I had had more of a previous contact online.
As I joked with Gilly when we met in Berlin, neither of us showed much Se; we were both unsure as to where we had left my car. But I can't compare Ezra with him in that area.