Hanging out / Having friends over?

[Navi]

Yeah, soooooo. I'm not so good in this area. :P
I've never really had friends come over to my house, and I don't hang out with friends too often.
Basically, I want to know two things- What do you consider hanging out? Where do you take your friend(s)? Do you screw around at the mall, go go-karting, mini-golfing, hit the beach, hit the pool, what?

Also, so, if I wanted to have people actually visit my place and hang out, or even stay the night, like, what do I need to have prepared? I mean, food and drinks obviously. But I mean, I don't want to have an awkward moment of boredom... Like, watch a sport event if it's on, go swimming, what else?

But yeah, what are your guys' ideas of hanging out and having friends over? If you have tips, could you share a few? I wanna try to be a little bit more social and all that.

Thanks in advance! :D

[Desuetude]

Urm since I'm a girl things might be different but I think most things are pretty much the same-ish.
Hanging out would be any time that I'm spending with my friends to be honest, whether that's lolloping around town or at home . Yeah, usually it's just shopping, cinema, beach, just something easy to get to where you'd have fun.

I don't usually have much prepared other than times, it's a lot more fun, be spontaneous. Don't make lists and have everything prepared, it's very stressful that way and it just dampens the mood. Although if they're sleeping over organising sleeping arrangements/bedding and stuff they'll need to bring before hand because if that craps up it can be annoying. Whatever you're into, watching TV, video games, go out for a bit, just have a few ideas in mind if you need them. Don't plan everything to the nearest degree.

Being social doesn't require and skill, you don't really need to learn anything for it. Just get out there, invite people over, suggest places to go and have fun. Just talking to someone is socialising so do more of that if you don't already. When my friends and I arrange things it's usually the same day so just going along with things and not having anything planned can be good sometimes. Don't hesitate to be outgoing sometimes, live a little :P

[dontfiguremeout]

Well since this is your first time having friends coming over, don't do something huge where it will overwhelm you! Trust me, if you do something huge like a major sleepover, you will be super overwhelmed because you aren't use to having friends with you for such a long period of time, and all that excitement at once too.

So if you are wondering what the heck you do with your friends, then I know what you are looking for! You can go swimming, go on trails with your friends to explore the nature (start a sword fight with tree branches, or climb trees), go to the mall just to hang out and mess around, but not to where you are getting kicked out, go to the beach, find a sport you guys like to do and if you get enough players play that sport, and I know this sounds pretty childish, but all my friends love it, play neighborhood hide and seek (you get the whole neighborhood to play the game, so makes it more fun!). I mean these are just a few options, and as you start hanging out with more friends, you'll find what you like to do and come up with more ideas.

Now preparing for people to come over, I usually have to clean up and organize so if we wanna do anything it's pretty simple to grab it off the shelf. And food wise, all you need really is soda/water with chips and dip and some fruit for snacks, and then if you are going to have a meal, easiest thing to do is hot dogs or hamburgers.

Now if I find out that me and my friends aren't doing a thing at the moment, of course then just find an area to sit down, talk and chill. I mean you don't have to be doing something 24/7 when your friend is over. And if you wanna be more social then of course this is a great way to become more social and out their, because then while your talking to your friend all of a sudden they could be like ohh you have to meet (insert persons name), and then you'll be making more friends, and you'll become more social.

So yeah just start out simple first time, and then gradually think of more things to do each time a new friend comes over!

[Inventor2]

Ok this is totaly my field, first of all u need a cell phone. Most teens already have them so this shouldnt be a problem. U need to go find some friends! Yeh know? People you enjoy to talk to! So talk to some people at school and ask them for there numbers. Then just send em a text. You could say "hey wanna come home on my bus tomor?" or "wanna ride bikes/long board this weekend?" or "wanna go practice (insert sport here) tomorow after school". One thing is, u cant go wrong with doing something outside. Now for spending the night, just buy some Coke/Peppsi and pick out a movie. When the movie is done and ur not tiered go do something u wouldnt normaly do. Run outside at 11 pm, or something thats just funny and makes you laugh. And last, stay up late! Stay up till like 1-2am waching tv or going on ipads, computers ect. Just improvise and have fun, thats what its all about. Now obviously you can do more then this, im just giving u some ideas, but like i said, have fun:)

Hope this helps:)

[DerBear]

Hey Brice.

I will answer your second question before the first.

Basically when you have friend come to your house all you need to do is keep the conversation flowing and sort have things to do. I know from personal experience you could plan for 10 weeks in advance about what you can do when having friends over and it never goes the way you plan it. Most of the time once your actually their and doing stuff then you have nothing to worry about. Also remember it is your friends and not royalty you don't have to push the boat out every time you have a friend visit Minor food and drink is great you don't really need anything else. To avoid the awkward moment on boredom try to have a few things loosely planned like swimming or watching a film or sport on T.V, things like this can be really good also just talking about anything can fill time. I mean you know that yourself. Talking on VT, once you get in a convo with someone an hour can go like minutes.

Now for you first question.

Personally it varies friend to friend or what group of friends. Sometimes we go to what you call the "mall" (dislike that american word) other times we go swimming and sometimes we just get in something to eat and talk about stuff. It varies really. Depends on the person.

Generally though Brice once you get going at a sleepover or when with friends the time fly's. There always will be those slight awkward moments of time where you might have little/nothing to do or talk about but hey, that happens with every friends.

Anyway good luck.