How to Avoid Being Annoying

People who routinely annoy others have trouble making friends, keeping jobs and fitting into mainstream society. To avoid being ostracized as an annoying person, it's important to realize which behaviors are annoying to people. By changing a few behaviors, it's possible to avoid annoying and alienating the populace by being respectful and appropriate.

Instructions

1. Try to be yourself instead of trying to please everyone else. Having a person who has seemingly no opinions of their own can be highly annoying. This behavior becomes obvious quickly and is extremely annoying to most people. Having your own personality and opinions, even if you don't agree with others, is far more interesting than trying to agree with everyone you meet.

2. Remember personal space. It can be annoying when a person doesn't respect your personal space. This can include sitting or standing too closely, or it may be asking inappropriate questions. Try to behave in a way that shows respect for the people around you.

3. Watch how the people around you are responding. If you have trouble understanding social behavior, this may help you to understand how people react in ordinary situations.

4. Avoid correcting people in public or otherwise making them think you believe yourself superior. This can include criticizing a person's grammar or laughing about their opinions. Respect that other people have opinions and that everyone makes mistakes. It isn't your job to correct everyone every time a mistake is made. Being social is largely making people feel comfortable in your presence.

5. Keep your behavior appropriate to the occasion. Laughing at a solemn moment or grimacing when someone is making a joke is impolite and annoying to others.