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Description: The main purpose of this paper was to examine shyness among teenagers from two perspectives: in terms of its relations with basic personality traits and in terms of its influence on the processes that occur in the social networks of high school students. At first, we revealed that shyness was negatively predicted by extraversion and positively by neuroticism. At second, within a set of exponential random graph models we demonstrated that shyness across network effects was similar to reversed extraversion (introversion). Both negatively predicted the number of outgoing relations, whereas do not affected the number of incoming relations. We discuss the issue of placing shyness in the space of personality traits, supporting the relevance of ascribing it to introversion.