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

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

I go out with co-workers (when they're around; we're all pretty scattered). I've also been known to chat with people I ran into in the course of the day and eventually invited over. I might meet someone at a party, but since the kinds of parties I go to involve people sitting around talking and/or playing games they're an excellent way of meeting new people. And, of course, I meet a lot of people through friends.