:hmm: Seems like you may just lack confidence or just have an 'old-fashion' way of approaching men (i.e hoping that the guy she likes makes the first move and comes over and asks' her out). Sounds like you work at an erotic womens' lingerie store. lool

Hmm, I'm not so sure. I've always had friends since I was little, can't remember that I had to try. Although those same friends refuse to play with me when I decided to skip a grade and leave them behind. I don't know why they felt like they couldn't talk to me anymore, because before I left I told them we'd still be friends...though that apparently didn't turn out as well as I expected. Making friends with people older at least by a year from me was the same, didn't have to go through much problems. That is, until I hit college. Man, I tell you some people that you meet in college can be a real pain in the ass.

Anyway, as of my age now, I don't really feel like it's hard to make friends. I just have this really bad habit or ability to keep in touch with people, because I keep thinking that they have their own lives to deal with and by this and this time they would have made other friends. So yeah. I guess I'm just bad in keeping in touch with friends, because if I really think about it, I do have plenty - and most of them, if not all, are good people. Sometimes it makes me feel bad of myself, I am blessed with good friends but I am really poor in keeping up with them - aside from the occasional "Happy birthday! Hope you etc etc" and congratulations for anything good happening in their life.

Sad to say, it's you.

Yea, this is exactly how I feel about it! The worst part about the classes in college is that you start over every semester. New classes, new people. Some people see that as a good thing, some don't. But it makes it so much harder to build relationships this way, unless you decide with a person to take a class together. Also, we wouldn't know if we would've been friends with a certain person if we only spent more time with them--- which is difficult because of class changes every semester!

Sometimes, I think that some people are so serious that I find it hard to see if they have a sense of humor, which makes me less likely to joke around them -____- which lessens my conversation topics even more! haha...!

LOL! What would we do without the internet! XD

I wish there were more of you in my college!!!!!! >_____<

you know what they say "is better to have 4 quarters than have 100 pennies"

That must be the shortest thing you've ever posted.

I've never had an easy time making friends due to 'issues' of a personal nature, but I found your question interesting so I started thinking about it, weighing experiences and so on. What I found is that I can't really come up with a neat and tidy answer, and the short version; yes or no, would be to digitalize it to the point where it becomes meaningless. So, for myself the answer will have to be, put simply; it's complicated.

I'm pretty confident, just shy and probably a bit old fashioned. I've approached men in the past, but (as I said in another forum post) my "flirting technique" is mostly just me babbling like an idiot for an hour lol But every now and then that works, some guys find it cute I suppose. I work at a Bath and Body Works lol, so I sell lotion and candles and whatnot. Most of the customers we get are women. If a man does walk in, he's usually shopping for a lady friend.

Yeah, at least in high school you were with the same people for a year. A semester really isn't long enough to get to know someone, especially when most classes are only an hour once or twice a week. It's definitely hard to find people to joke with or who share my interests.

Yay internet! It's a magical thing, bringing people closer together

dunno

I definitely find It much harder to find people you make a good connection once out of school, also it seems a lot of people are more invested in figuring out there own life and don't really has a much time for making friends. I guess that's why we have forums, so we can just end up building a bunch of people who aren't really friends >.> ...

social life: 0
online life: over 9000

If you start a new hobby, or something similar like start to study - making friends isn't hard at all, I mean, you all share the same intrest (thats why you all are there haha).

and it's not really a big issue to go and talk with strangers, the worst that could happen is the person would talk back to you?!

everyone wants new friends, everyone ;D so just go and talk with people you think are intresting or start a new hobby!

It can be more difficult, simply because adults have a tendency to get locked into patterns. If you have a full time job, marriage and kids maintaining lots of friendships can be tough.