Cultivation of openness paired with sufficient self-awareness to cultivate & maintain good personal boundaries seem like close to magic ingredients for connecting with other people in sustained and mutually meaningful ways. What do you think?

This taps into something I've been thinking about in relation to my DW account. Although I have been here for a little while now, I only know a few people--mostly carried over from LJ and few that are active. I've been wanting to meet some new people on DW (which is why I clicked on your link and came over to this salon in the first place). I think one of the reasons I'm struggling a bit with it is that I'm not managing the cultivation of openness so well. I think I need to share more of myself so that others have something to respond to.