How to make friends with strangers?

What I do is I walk up to someone, I introduce myself. And than I just start asking questions. If they have kids, ask about there kids. It could be anything like that. And pretty soon you will have a discussion going. If your shy, than you probably wouldn't do it. When I got married I stopped talking to all my friends. And than we would go out to places and he would see someone he knew, and if there was ever anybody with that person I would just start talking. I think it just depends on how out going the person is.

It is so true, I believe it is harder to make friends these days with both children and adults. I think as we get older, the fear of rejection deters us from making friends with strangers. I know I feel intimidated to approach strangers and start talking to them. You doubt yourself, thinking what if they don't like me? What if they don't find what I have to say interesting? I think making friends also has to do with a person's self esteem. The more confident we are within ourselves the more likely we are to approach a stranger and start communicating. However today, with technology we can make friend online easily as we are not afraid of the rejection to our face. If someone rejects our friendship online, it does not bother us as much as we cannot see them and we are not humiliated.

Yeah! it is really hard to know who you can trust as your friend but it is also hard to tell if the friend you had before will stay loyal to you. althoug it is hard, we have to be open to other people who is possible to be our friend. And it is hardly to compare the act of a child to the act of an adult when it comes to friendship. What a child want is just playmate and that's it. But an adult wants is someone who he can trust and who can be with him in real life. :-)

Children are innocent and less experienced so they can befriend anyone. While we are more experienced and we evaluate any stranger, before befriending him, from all the angles. We have faced different good and bad experiences in our life, so our outlook changes about a strangers. You can never know in one meeting whether a stranger is fit to be your friend and vice versa. You need to take chances and after two-three meetings your intuitions starts telling you whether is other guy is fit to be your friend. Don't be afraid of strangers. You would find most of them positive. Best of Luck!