I find eye contact to be rather awkward. I mean, I make eye contact, but to me it seems almost like a foreign language. People look at my eyes, then they look away, then around then back at my eyes for a while. It is like wtf. What is the point of that? Is it trying to convey some information to me? How long should I look at their eyes for, I don't fucking know. Normally I just mimic the person I am talking with. If they look at my eyes I look at theirs, if they look away I look away. However, I realized that this would give the impression that I am looking at their eyes too much, as I will always be looking at their eyes when they are looking at me, and they wont be looking at me to see I am looking away, so now I sort of time how long and frequently they look away from my eyes and try to match the frequency and duration without being perfectly synched. I don't have any idea why I do this though, simply because for some reason it is expected of me I guess. I much prefer text based communication, it is to the point and avoids bizarre rituals such as this.