>>316744149
Honestly, doing some self-reflection on why I don't suffer from social anxiety in regards to making conversation or whatever lead me to following: I play a character. That's the secret. When you don't think about trying to make conversation, when you stop thinking about how the other person will evaluate you and how their perception of you might change depending on how well you manage to make conversation with them, you're free to do whatever. And the key to this is to play a character.

The line is a little blurred between you and the character but essentially you be a goofball. People will be judging the character you play rather than the real you. You can make dumb statements like 'you look beautiful today' even though they are using the exact same model as always and the compliment doesn't make sense in VRC. Talk like the world is real or just make up silly BS. 

If the conversation ever goes to something not-stupid you can just switch into talking genuinely.