How difficult is it for you to make friends? How different is this from years prior?

Well, I'm so handsome that people flock to me and beg to be my friend. It gets really tiresome.

I am told that I am very approachable . . . I can make friends easily, meet people, chat with strangers . . . I am not shy about that. However, it was not always that way. I was a quiet kid with self esteem issues . . . it took a long time for me to be comfortable with "me" - I was a loner. Now I appear to be very social, but I'm still a loner at heart . . . I can make friends, but it takes a long time for me to consider anyone a true friend.

I´m in a moment to my life when I cherish the few true friends I have but I´m not interested in acquiring more.

I've been a loner all my life. Making friends is a major deal for me. I think my family was shocked when I told them that I actually had a boyfriend.

I've always been a loner and like being this way. Having friends isn't important to me, even though I surely don't dislike anyone, to my knowledge. Online, I love communicating with others. In everyday life, I stay distant from people and always have. I had three friends all through high school, that was it.

@ScribbledAdNauseum It's not hard for me, if that someone is as honest and open as I am ... but that is so rare nowadays

It is very hard for me to make real friends with people. People just like to use me and throw me to the curb actually. They do not value me as a person, my loyalty, etc. It has been that way all of my life. I have no friends. It is just as hard today as it was years ago. I don't seek out friendships either because I am tired of wasting time and being hurt. I just stay to myself. It is easier that way.

I think it is harder when you retire and do not work anymore.

I have never been good at making friends. Hasn't really gotten harder or easier.

I've always been an introvert so making friends hasn't always been easy. It doesn't matter what the year is. Most of my friends nowadays are from church.

@ScribbledAdNauseum I was not born here and came later in life so it is not easy to make friends and trust people here.

I don't have many friends and I think it was easier for me to make friends some years ago, now I mainly stick with the ones I have.

Staying home mostly, no new friends lately. I prefer a few true friends, staying away form the drama.

Oh, wow. Maybe I am weird? For the most part, I enjoy meeting SOME people. I have learned over the years to be more selective in making new acquaintances. I hate, I mean really, really hate, when people are mean and hateful to others with no reason to be. I avoid the hating people in all cases. But there are still good, kind people out there. But to each his own, some people like to be alone. I like my alone time a lot. I just like being with friends sometimes.

In facebook, I have over 600 friends. Aside from family and relatives and neighbors, my friends include grade school, high school, college, and grad school chums. My students from St. Scholastica's, St. Paul's, Columban College added me up also. Plus the teachers. In the list are my tutees, school sanitary personnel, classmates and parents of my children, my car mechanic, and strangers I talked to while snacking at 7/11, and churchmates. Am the amiable one. People usually have reservations approaching me. They say that they couldn't relate with me because of my English. They call me 'Inglesera.' But that is just the way I speak. My Tagalog is better than my English. Many friends though send me messages of how they like me very much. They just couldn't respond to me well. But one said I am her trusted friend. At least two friends said that if they have one friend left, they want it to be me. And there is one friend who calls me on the landline almost every other day just to check if I am all right. Here's to friends and friendships.

It has always been easy for me to make friends and it still is, of course "real friends" are another matter.

I'm the same as you

I have heard it said that making friends does become more difficult as we age. Moving from one state to another during the pandemic doesn't help either. That's what I have done. Because of my blindness, I am unable to drive. Since I moved to New York, and had to spend ten days in quarantine (even though I was neither exposed, nor infected), then we got a ton of snow. So, I haven't been able to get out much. The neighbors here are younger, still working, and keep to themselves. Perhaps I can answer this better one I have moved into the senior/disabled complex. Making friends there should be easy.

I have a tendency to want to trust people and make friends right away. I am usually burned because I've been stabbed in the back too many times. I might be more wary now.

I can make friends easily but i am not easy going lol... That's before.Now friends are always in distance.