Do you easily make new friends?
By avelnrm
@avelnrm (239)
Philippines
September 15, 2008 7:21am CST
I'm not good in making new friends at school and in our place. I usually don't talk to people unless I know them. But one of my friends often makes new friends everyday because he talks to the person near him and discusses all kinds of things.
I just talk to "strangers" at school if I have business with them. I think it's annoying to just talk to other people even at school.
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48 responses
@Amagnimo (635)
• India
15 Sep 08
Well, I used to be like you earlier. But I did become an extrovert to an extent. I know how you feel, because I have passed through the conditions like yours... It was some time back when I didn't actually make friends, but wanted to. Slowly, I changed to making BOOKS as real friends.. I know it sounds weird that people say "Books are good friends" and I believed it - but now I realise why they were right. In fact, Friends may come and go, but once a book comes, it either stays with you materialistcally or in your good BRAIN!
Slowly, I found that that people themselves turn up to me for being friends. I started observing that people observe me. This made me think more about it and I think I realised this later, that being a good friend of someone is all you need to go, good friends will automatically come. You don't need to walk to all. I still don't talk with anyone who is new in the school... really, unless I have a business with them. The only time I talk with the people is when I feel sympathy for certain conditions they are in, and I try to help them!
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
15 Sep 08
I am very wary of strangers and I am also a very shy and introvert person and I don't make friends easily, however online I am very good at making friends and have made a lot of friends from all around the world as well as from my own country, I am a totally different person online than I am offline, you wouldn't recognize me if you knew me from being online. I guess it's to do with being bullied in my early years that I am very mistrustful of people and I put up barriers and yes I do feel jealous that others can make friends easily and not me.
@sweetyethot (1737)
• China
16 Sep 08
i love to make new friends, and it's not so difficult for me to get along with strangers.but it all depends.sometimes i am not in the mood of getting to know strangers.once,i hope to make new friends once a month.but i couldnt make it anyway due to lots of different reasons.i dont have much chance to know strangers.
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@iceblizzard (749)
• Philippines
16 Sep 08
Making a thousand of friends each day is not a miracle. Even so you say you're not friendly still you can do it. What make it hard is, do you value the person when you consider him/her as your friend or you just did it for the sake of having one? When we make friends with other people, it means we make them an extension of our self.
@okwusman1 (2247)
• Abuja, Nigeria
15 Sep 08
No, i don't make friends easily, this is because most people are not honest and trustworthy. Before I make friend, it takes me some time to study the person's character and behaviour, he or she can change at anytime but it is very important to study such person closely before calling him a friend.
@gibsonpatricia56 (85)
• United States
21 Sep 08
I have no trouble making new friends. I do the same thing your friend does. Its your hang ups you have about making new friends. You shouldn't change your opinion about how you make new friends. When I was in school, I use to do the same thing as you did. I wasn't annoyed by it. I like people. There are many reasons why you don't do it. Don't feel bad because of the way you make friends its nothing wrong with it.
@msedge (4011)
• United States
10 Oct 08
I think i am just like you.I know there are people that can easily have friends as much as everyday.But i am not like that.Some would find me a strcit woman at first but later when they know me they found me a nice person.It's just that i am very picky with friends and i just can tell if i like the person or not by the way they talk.SOmetimes i am wrong with my judgement because i know i am not perfect but i think i am just not as friendly like the others.
@mlh8087 (368)
• United States
17 Sep 08
I was the same way in school. I had very few friends. Then I was always on the outside of all these groups wondering why I felt so alone. To make friends you must be a friend but to this day I still feel like I'm on the outside looking in at all these relationships that go on around me. Sometimes it gets lonely. Since you sound like you don't make friends easily, do you feel the same way?
@Haylie2610 (582)
• Dominican Republic
19 Sep 08
I'm a little bit shy, but its really easy for me to make friends, cuz when I find myself comfortable I chill and let it all follow its curse...
I like to think its because I'm an open minded person and I respect everyone's oppinion because I dont like to judge anyone... People think what they want to think and, after all, arent we all free to speak out or minds??
I like to show who I really am, so ppl like me for who I am and not for someone I'm not. I love to talk and share things, experiences and I think that attracts ppl
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@chinniR (661)
• India
15 Sep 08
hi there, i am not good i making friends. i am reserved and so i think a lot before i make friends with anyone. i do have a good set of friends and i feel that they are always there for me. so i don't think about making new friends now and i don't know whether i would be close as i am with my set. happy mylotting!
@rheajamandre (16)
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19 Sep 08
I'm generally a shy person and don't make friends easily. This is why I value my friendships very deeply. Usually I don't strike up a conversation first. I only speak up when spoken to. Sometimes people think I'm aloof or standoffish but actually I'm really quite an introvert. My husband is the exact opposite. He can talk to anyone and make friends pretty easily. I sometimes tease him that he can be mistaken for a politician because whenever we are out he usually bumps into someone he knows. I'm slowly trying to be more sociable and open to people especially now that I have a little girl who I want to grow up friendly and more outgoing than me.
@Ohara_1983 (4117)
• Kuwait
17 Sep 08
Im not good to makiong new friend because people see me that dont like to talk anybody, but when they start to talk to me & with joke they will know what i have inside, even me i will know my friend in there attitude just the way they talk ,move.
@mflower2053 (3223)
• United States
16 Sep 08
I'm kind of shy so it is kind of hard for me to make friends. As I get older I find that I am opening up more and if I share something in common with another person it is easier to make friends with them. Since I got married and had kids its easier to talk about things.
@quinnkl (1667)
• United States
17 Sep 08
I don't think I make friends easily. I have a lot of acquaintances because I am friendly and listen and talk to people easily. If someone starts talking to me, I just carry on the conversation. But as for real friendships, I have only a few that I have had for a very long time.
@Ina926 (172)
• United States
16 Sep 08
I can make friends wherever I go and my husband and kids are the same way. When we go somewhere like the park, my kids always make friends with the children that are already there and my husband is known byeveryone since he has lived in our city forever. It doesn't matter where we go, we always bump into someone he knows. Sometimes it's just crazy, we were grocery shopping and he bumped into a friend he hadn't seen in a good while. Well his friend followed us all over the store talking with my husband while we shopped for groceries. When we got to the payout line he left to go look for his wife.
@gimmeadream (43)
• Canada
16 Sep 08
When I was in school, I didn't make friends easily and very rarely made good friends. I was a army brat and we moved a lot and to different European countries. I was always the quiet wall flower that no one paid any attention to. I feel like my life didn't really start until I was twenty. Now, I speak whenever and with whoever is present....