What makes ENFP's so crazy?

[Kronkenstein]

I just found of my personality profile a couple weeks ago and have been incessantly researching the theories and concepts behind these tests ever since, and then spewing the information to my friends as I learn it.

But what I've found is that there is something about ENFP's (which I am) that makes us crave mutual understanding and social interaction. If you look at this website as an example, most other personality profiles have 150 threads or less. ENFPs have over 400. What makes this even more interesting is that INTP's which it seems many ENFPs agree are oddly intriguing, also have over 400. This is supplemented by the fact that while many of my friends showed only moderate interest in what I've learned about these tests, my good friend who is an INTP has been mutually fascinated and done equal research, and we continually spout off knowledge as it comes. While I have good friends in other profiles, it appears my closest are INTPs, ENFPs, and ENTPs. Which ENTP btw also has a high amount of threads, but less than ENFP and INTP, which matches with my best friend who is ENTP and showed more interest than most in these tests, but less than myself and the INTP.

The further intrigue lies in the fact that based on Keirsey's rings, my closest friends are mostly informative rather than directive. And with my friends who are directive I tend to have MUCH more conflict with as they appear too logical foreful, and not moral and empathetic enough in my eyes. The linking trait is that my friends are all Intiuition people.

Unnecessary spewing of observations aside, I have three questions:

Do other ENFPs find there friends to be almost all Rationals, and find they have very few 'Sensory' friends?

Secondly, I found three people I know, 2 of which I spend much time with and have a dominating personality over, all got ENFP on the test, though I and anyone whp knows them would agree that we are not the same personalitys, and that ENFP fits me perfectly. Do other people just crave to be ENFPs? Is it possible close friends of ENFPs will be so drawn that they try to envision themselves as their friend?

And more importantly, when I see the fact that INFPs have over 900 threads (wow) my thought isn't "wow why would you do that? or, get a life!" i actually had a spontaneous burst of excitement from the thought that there was a large quantity of idealist people probably discussing and trying to make meaning out of there lives and the world in a public discussion.
Why do ENFPs have a need and love for tons of information exchange and adventure all the time? Its like we're adrenaline junkys... but for personal discovery and group collaboration.

[borntorave]

That's just how we are. :) We crave the new and interesting! There is something in us that creates an insatiable thirst for new and exciting things...Also, I do believe that we feel emotions very deeply, more so than other types.

[Ignus]

We are driven by a need to connect, to learn and share in a harmonious communal organization, and hanging out with each other bouncing ideas off our collective heads is pretty much heaven for us.

We ENFPs are fascinated by possibilities and constantly crave new emotions and experiences that enlighten us and help us grow as individuals.

As for intuitive vs. sensing, that comes down to the way we speak. We get fired up and excited about the unseen, the possible, the not yet, while sensing types prefer to chat about the real, the concrete, the actually is. It's a tug of war that basically leads to each side taking turns boring the other til we get tired of the conversation. Obviously there are exceptions, but that's the general trend.

[KateAusten]

I've had lots of good ESFP friends, some ESTPs, but not many other types of sensors. Usually I make friends with them through partying and we wind up bonding. It probably works because we both like to go out and do stuff -- them because they're action oriented, and me because I want to know what all the different experiences feel like. They think I'm weird but they're okay with it.

My guy friends are mostly rationals. Usually I'll have a group of NT friends that I get along with, but I sort of flit in and out of the group rather than being a real part of it because I can't sit still and analyze things for nearly as long as they can. I'm also not remotely interested in video games, building things, or most types of science. I just like the witty exchanges. And I've dated a disproportionate number of INTPs, for better or worse. I think ENFPs and INTPs both have a strong curiosity that matches up well (and explains why there are so many posts from both) but we want to know what everything feels like whereas they want to analyze everything so they understand how it works intellectually.

Also we have a lot of posts because we like to talk about ourselves But that's okay because we also love to have other people talk about themselves. We get called self-absorbed but really we just find people interesting, and that happens to include ourselves.

[Tridentus]

yeah we'll get on with ESxPs because we're both spontaneous and fun loving, and a bit random. with guys we always end up spawning gay jokes for some reason XD

i get on better with NFs. btw watch out because a lot of NF guys will think they are NTs.

im just so random.. i don't seem to follow the same rules, socially, academically, in life in general, that others seem to. i can be anyone and anything, i've got so many personalities that im never the person that i present to any one person- thats no where near the whole story. it's confusing and i want to know why. also we don't really get to chat that much like this without ppl thinking we're weird.

[MissyMaroon]

Haha, it's nice to see I wasn't the only person to notice the number of posts for each type on these forums.

I live with my friend's family and they're all NT's I believe. My social groups always consisted of a bunch of NT's for some reason. I love them to death and I very much enjoy the witty exchanges, quirky behavior, etc. On an emotional level, I'm stuck inside myself, though, and it has nothing to do with them. On a level of dominant - submissive relationships, I tend to be dominated by NT types. I'm more laid back and seem without direction or motivation, while they're all out and about building things, creating, etc.

Also, because I'm so immensely captivated by the way people are (including myself), MBTI appeals to me very much. I could spend all day observing and analyzing people's behavior, mine, and our reactions to one another. Of course, most of the time I won't do it actively - that seems more of an INTJ/ENTJ thing, I've noticed. One of the people I live with (who I believe to be an ENTJ) is constantly observing and making remarks on people's behavior and analyzing it on a sociological level. I tend to get lost in the back-and-forth momentum of interaction and don't relate MBTI to things until later when I can reflect on it.

I have an INFP friend who I talk with all the time. I think we naturally make great friends, outside of of the realm of MBTI world of course. Our I/E isn't very extreme and I think it's very complementary otherwise. My ENTP who I live with can seem full of herself from time to time. That's just her. I wouldn't know about other ENTP's. As for myself, I read all day on my personality type and discuss with others of the same type our similarities and quirks, but if I were hanging out with people I wouldn't talk on and on incessantly about my own personality type, or even my skills and talents for that matter. I'm very modest. My ENTP friend, however, could go all day long on how great she is at certain things (which she is, by the way). She's very social and loves to hang out with her friends, like I am, but in a different way. I suppose the best way to say this is I'm more sensitive. I could sit an entire day and help someone out with their problems and listen to them. Then, afterward, I could bring them into the light and show them a good time. It is an absolute joy for me to make the ones I care about happy. It's a priority for me, even. Their happiness is usually mine.

My brother is an ESTP and I can have lots of fun with him. He's very action oriented and loves doing things. You can't sit him down to join a philosophical discussion, but you'll have serious fun with him.

MBTI isn't something I take too seriously. Not everyone can fit in a box. But, still, it's so darn interesting!

[Kronkenstein]

Then you might find it fascinating that my best friend (ENTP) exhibits the same kind of behavior. He is also extraverted, yet far more self centered, and would say certain things bluntly which I'm way to sensitive to see appropraite. He actually uses listing off his talents as a method to cope with stress.
I definitely understand the seemingly directionless behavior compared to NTs. I have almost all NTs for best friends and they always seem to have way more focused activities than my constant seeking of the best and most fulfilling activity.
I guess I agree with both you guys on the exciting nature of Sensory people. I think I just have many with whom I can hold one of those nice dreamer Intiution conversations, which makes feel they are less relatable. Its a different kind of friendship.
I think of part of the fascinating aspect of MBTI is I feel it helps me take things that I already knew and put them in a more managable scientific mindset. Most of what I know is rooted in a lot of feeling, and it makes it easier to manage relationships with friends by understanding eachothers strengths and weaknesses in a less touchy-feely way that I normally do.

[DJArendee]

INTP's are thinking, constantly. Read the size of their threads too, they usually have a lot to say. Forums are one of the only places where they can put their strange theories into concrete.

As for you guys, you certainly don't dominate your own forum alone, you dominate everyone else's too... haha. Much like ISTP's ya'll are very curious. But where ISTP's are curious about the concrete and immediate surroundings (ST), you guys are curious about people (NF). That's my theory.

[Moby]

A quick comment on the title of this thread...I find most of the OTHER personality types are crazy. The SP types and their dangerous impulses, the SJs slaving themselves and others to endless rules, and the NTs devoting themselves to impersonal sciences and abstract constructs.

Hey, NFs and ENFPs could be the most sane. Of course I am one...

[KateAusten]

I had just assumed he meant crazy in the good way, lol.

I think I did read somewhere that we are the highest in "using emotional resources to cope with stress" or something. I can agree with that, I'm very under control in a stressful situation, it's the rest of the time when I don't have a crisis to keep me focused that I get in trouble.