I think unless you go to school or join groups it's pretty impossible? Common interests I suppose. Any ideas? Anyone? What do you do?
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I think every new friend I've in the last 10 or so years was by meeting through another friend. That, work and the org.

MRGee said:

pick out someone whose looks you like, stare fixedly at them and follow that person everywhere. insert yourself into their daily activities. this may mean sleeping across their front door but making new friends is hard work!

Try a cooking class.

Volunteering at a gallery.

XxAxX said:

Also try rummaging through their bins. Look for things that might give clues to their interests, such as golf magazines.

You could, also, write notes to people you see on the bus.

Just give them little papers, saying; "I saw you, watching me. Call me, Prince; 1-800 New Site."











aimisbadedit
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Go to lunch with the people you work with.
Many of my closest friends started as coworkers

I've made about 4 friends from the last photography class I went to, we've gone on to join a club together

I would probably start by seeing if there were a local chapter of my college alumni association...or an alumnae chapter of my sorority.

I haven't made any new friends in quite a while




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HamsterHuey said:

Oh, so you mean I'd actually have to leave the house?

minneapolisgenius said:

Ermmm, that would be preferable, yes.

HamsterHuey said:

I don't know about that. It seems like a lot of work.

minneapolisgenius said:

Go to a bar. Get drunk. Everybody soon will become sexier and more handsome. It's how most people meet.

Or they meet at work. And have affairs. And divorce. You can also meet too many people.

Work, friends of family, friends of friends, when I'm out at a club - that's generally how I've met all my friends.

HamsterHuey said:

I meet too many people.

you can meet people anywhere.

all the long term friends we have as a couple, the master met through ads in the classifieds looking for musicians and housemates!

The Army pretty much takes care of that for me every three or so years....they ship you across the world to different posts and you're pretty much forced to branch out and make friends...then you get deployed and end up on some outpost away from your unit (like I was this past deployment...8-man Army team on a base run by Marines with a strong Air Force presence) so then you have to deal with folks from another branch of the service....

...however, I was blessed being a native New Orleanian because we're ignorant and will pretty much talk to anyone we see, at any time, anywhere....so either way (civilian or military) I would be covered...

People are everywhere. Find people with like minded interests and go for it.

if you aren't a very social person to begin with, it's very difficult to make good friends with others. i'm pretty shy and stay to myself, so i have few what i would call close friends (which is really how i like it). but i have alot of casual friends.

dunno. that's why i have none