finding friends

[firecat]

inspired by snippy

for some folks, online friends don't fill the same social needs as in-person friends.

for those of you who have had difficulty at times making in-person friends, and have found ways to solve that problem, what worked for you?

Some things that have worked for me are

• inviting co-workers to a home-made dinner
  
• joining and organizing ongoing religious/spiritual groups (in my case, eclectic/women's spirituality/shamanic)
  
• participating in and organizing in-person meetings of people I knew from online forums
  

Things that seem to work for other people that don't usually work for me are

• parties
  
• bars
  
• volunteering (I love volunteering, but I haven't usually made friends that way)
  
• classes
  

Comments

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

participating in and organizing in-person meetings of people I knew from online forums

That works for me. Almost everyone I know came directly or indirectly from an online venue.

The other way I've met people is through my writers' groups -- and wherever I am, there is always a writers' group, or else I start one.