Making new friends

[frankie97]

When it comes to making new friends where do you feel it's easiest? Online using social networking such as Facebook, twitter, Virtual Teen, KIK, etc) or in person at a mall, school, through mutual friends and what not?

[Dooby the potato god]

I find it easier online, I'm rather awkward and introverted in person, but on here I don't have a reason to be shy! :)

[pinguinii]

Its easier on internet but you will probably don't find those "true" friends in there. Personally , I find friends in school or when I'm doing sports. Like playing basketball... Someone comes.... And you have a easy friendship.

[Leon03]

Making friends online is quite easy. Just a click or two and you are friends :D.
There is a big difference between friends and penpals to me. You can find great panpals on sites like VT. They are incredibly helpful because they tend to be more honest and straight forward than people you have around you all the time. But to me the only way to make friends is ‘offline’.
To be honest I find it easier to make friends in school, playing sports and meeting your friends’ friends than online. In real life you know at once who you are dealing with - maybe that’s from bad experiences in the past.

[StoppingTime]

Its easier on internet but you will probably don't find those "true" friends in there. Personally , I find friends in school or when I'm doing sports. Like playing basketball... Someone comes.... And you have a easy friendship.


Ehhh, not necessarily. It's certainly possible to find really great people on here (I certainly have), but it comes with a risk. You really need to make sure you know who you're talking to - because anybody can be anyone behind a screen.

[Pierce]

I think making true lasting friends is much easier in person. Meeting friends at school is probably best, and then hanging out with their friends or mutual friends is probably best. Good Luck!

[AbbaZabba]

Personally, I like it in person. I'm pretty open and wide open, so I enjoy meeting people. I'm out in the country and home schooled so I welcome meeting anyone. I don't judge people so anyone is a friend to me. I also have to travel with my family a lot, so it is my opportunity to meet people.

[Stryker125]

School and sports and stuff is probably a better method, and I think it's a bit easier to get to know someone in real life. Online, you have to be really careful, because anyone can be anything. You never know what kind of person you're talking to until you meet them in real life, y'know? That said, I'd say online is easier for me, since I'm pretty shy and awkward in real life. I've met some really cool people online, people I love very much and consider myself very close to, even though we've never actually met. Some of my closest friends have been made through the internet.

[Mynick]

To me, online is so easy to make new friends and/or penpals. Just the fact that i dont need to look at the person's eyes i feel so much comfortable.

[Apollo.]

Offline through friends, in night clubs or at the gym things like that. The best friendships are the ones you mutually choose to progress and its not just a case of you see each other every day cause your at college or what not, but you take time out for each other all the time, in my opinion anyway. Its to easy for people online to fake who they are and I never really have got to trust people much and all the times I have I've been let down. I'd love a proper online friend that could last but it just doesnt happen.

[wattado]

I make friends easier online. I am a shy person online and in person but when you find people who have common interests with you it is easy but when you meet them online and they live far away you can't really hang out.

[Lost in the Echo]

For me, it's easier to make friends in person. I prefer to do most things in person, rather than online, over the phone, etc.
Although, i've actually made some great friends on VT, and i'd love to meet some of them, eventually.

[Aves]

Here's what's worked for me in the past. I meet someone, add em on Facebook, and if I think they're pretty cool, I talk to them on there.

That's how I made a bunch of friends the summer of my freshman year of high school. From there, I started making friends just by talking to friends of friends. Clubs and activities are also wonderful ways to make friends. I know it sounds cliche, and I never really took that advice apart from theatre, but I looked back and realized how true it is.

[Steve Jobs]

This whole friendships thing still surprises me. It's really strange to look back at people you've met and the difference in the way they treated you before you've been accepted into their "friendship circle".
It's pretty tough for me at this point. I mean I'm pretty social and meeting new people is a daily task that's pretty damn straightforward and easy. Trouble is when I'm constantly surrounded in a working/professional environment there's always politics and competition.

Damn, I don't know. Sometimes I rely on having friends online (and there are also friends I've met first in person but we communicate very heavily online these days) just because the farawayness of it means we can go to each other to share thoughts and ideas without being swayed or biased from the possibility someone heard some goss or shit and formed a biased opinion out of it.

Bleh. If it's between the two, I'd definitely pick a face-to-face friendship. I guess I'm kinda emotional, not the crying-in-your-face but more of the sort that appreciates company, and that's something you don't feel when you're talking to someone online :what:

I feel like I just posted an entire post of gibberish.

[Dimentio]

Well in person i am kind of awkward and even with the best people i know i can still be quietish, I mainly laugh XD But i have NO self confidence and when someone i do not know talks to me i freak out! So yeah deffinitly on the internet for me but then i know people who cannot make internet friends to save their life (Sorry Nicole!) But then in person they are CRAZY and make friends easily! So it depends on the person :)

[volleyball172]

i find it easy if other people introduce me to someone. that way i already have at least one thing in common and to talk about... the person who introduced us!

[dontfiguremeout]

Online can be the easiest, but friendships can get more personal if you meet the person in person! haha. Like join a sport! You're forced to work with people you never met, and end up making friends there by them teaching you what to do. That's a pretty easy way of making new friends!