Just as “selfie” was deemed the word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries, in the arena of personality types, 2013 will be remembered as the year of the introvert.
Thanks to the Internet, the quiet, the socially awkward and the obsessive compulsive have seen ridicule turn into admiration. And while such acclaim will inevitably lead to frauds riding the quirky train, just like the would be “geeks” and “nerds” before them, the daily struggle of the introvert carries on.