How to find your friends at any age
Educational Program A Life / / December 19, 2019
Simple tips that will help you make friends
- Always be yourself. So you can not fool anyone when meeting and will not be disappointed when you get to know.
- Think carefully about what you appreciate in people most of all and with whom you find it easier to communicate. Keep this in mind when looking for new friends.
- Do not be biased, do not judge people by the new hearing or the first impression. Find a person better, only then draw conclusions.
- Friendship - it's a mutually beneficial relationship. Offer help when you see that a person in need. If this a true friendThen you will be able to count on assistance in response.
- Keep in touch with new friends: communicate on the Internet, make an new meetings, try to diversify the joint leisure. But do not be too pushy. If a person ignores you, do not impose.
- Do not worry if the new acquaintances lose interest in you. Perhaps you have met the wrong people, in which the need or made mistakes. Analyze the experience and keep looking.
How to find friends online
With the proliferation of the Internet, many of us spend more time behind the monitor and communicate less live. It is a fact. But it is not so simple. Network - it is just a tool, and everyone uses it in his own way.
The Internet can be seen as a refuge from the real world, as well as a powerful means of socialization. Platforms and services, which will be discussed below, are introduced every day a huge number of people. Even today, you can tie a friendship there.
Look for friends in online communities
Online forums, chat in messengers like WhatsApp and Telegram, the public pages and groups in Facebook, "VKontakte", "Classmates" and other social networks - all areas for an effective search for new acquaintances.
You only need to choose the community, which can be interesting to you people, and invite them to meet discreetly. Nothing complicated.
If you live in a small town, look for the community, taking into account geography. The major social networks almost every municipality has a local bands like "typical of Bryansk" or "Overheard in Chernigov," where you can chat c countrymen. To find such a group, simply enter in the search for the service name of your locality.
When you find the community, take a look at his description, read the entries of other users. So you learn how to love going on here. Most often the participants directly publish brief information about yourself to the proposal meet. In the "VKontakte" is usually such data are sent to the administrator, and they have their place for the rest of the band members from the sender entity. You can answer one of these publications, or to leave the property.
If you are from a big city, then it makes sense to look for a community of interest, without reference to the settlements. This may be a chat to discuss cinema, public forum about fishing or bodybuilding. Choose what you closer.
The main thing is that your city was great, and the community - popular. Then among his audience surely find your "neighbors".
In the communities of the so-called interests of the popular gatherings - mass meeting participants to meet and spend time together. Such events are organized by the participants themselves or the administration. The members of the meeting can be given as an example LiveLib, Social site for book lovers. But before you go for such an event, to prove themselves on the site. Participate in discussions, make their publications - let you notice and take their own.
Some communities have special interest sections for dating. For example, the site has a humorous site Pikabu popular branch "League Me». Participants from different cities and countries talk here about yourself and offer to meet offline. After free registration, you can write to someone who you are interested in, or to publish your profile.
Look for friends with the help of a dating service
The web is full of services designed specifically for singles. Most often with their help seeking partners for sex or romantic relationships, but you there is nothing stopping to look so friends.
In the same Tinder, The world's largest online dating service, you can easily find a man for companionship. After registration, specify clearly your personal profile that are looking for a company to simply go to the cinema, an exhibition, concert or other event that will seem appropriate. It is a good soil, to make friends.
Price: Free
Price: Free
The app connects to your Facebook and will show the profiles of users who are close to you and matches your interests. You can anonymously observe those who you like. Similarly, will do with your application form. If the choice is to coincide, the application will notify both you and the conversation can begin.
There are services that are ground just below the search friends. They are not as popular, but it is entirely appropriate to your purpose. Among these projects - a platform for finding travel companions TourBar Me and service friendly MyFriends.
Look for friends in online games
If you've never played a multiplayer game, you can not realize how strong social links they create between the players. The virtual worlds are not only real friends, but even future husbands and wives.
Games like Destiny, Overwatch and World of Warcraft creates a situation in which you need to interact with strangers. You join forces with other players for the sake of common goals and joint adventure worried. In such conditions it is easy to get close and find common topics of conversation. you can continue to communicate in the real world if you wish.
If you get to know online, do not forget about etiquette
- Tidy your online profile. Remove posts and pictures, because you may appear worse than it actually is.
- By publishing your profile for future friends, succinctly describe their qualities, purposes, and love interests.
- Try to write correctly use punctuation.
- Do not overuse emoticons, exclamation marks and capital letters.
- Avoid unnecessary breaks a message into several parts. Finish the thought, and then submit, to avoid irritating the interlocutor stream notification.
- Avoid trite remarks like, "Hi, how are you?".
- Do not Matter.
- Not joking matter.
- Do not argue over trifles, respect the point of view of the interlocutor.
- Be polite.
If your communication will go from the virtual world into the real (and this is what you are and want to, right?), You will certainly come in handy advice from the following points.
How to make friends offline
If you are a man of the old school and do not like all those things virtual, you can always find interesting people in the real world.
Look for friends at school or at work
Schools, universities and offices - places where you would normally make new acquaintances. But since you're reading this, then, in your case, this option did not work.
If in a group, there are people with whom you do not mind to make friends, but no one takes the initiative, take it in your hands. Talk to the head of the joint activities like trekking after working in anti-café or bar. You can simply offer these options directly to their colleagues. Informal atmosphere will create the preconditions for friendly relations.
If you are studying or working remotely or in a team is not like-minded people, it remains a radical way - change jobs or study. But before decisive action, try the next option.
Looking for friends in the local sections and interest groups
Another antiquated way to find friends - to join the sports section. It is advisable to choose the team sport like football, hockey and handball. As you can think of dance as an alternative.
If you do not like active sports, try to find a club. It can be a restaurant, where they play board games or discussing literature. Choose based on their interests: it will help to find adherents. Addresses these clubs usually have the Internet.
Communicating in person, do not forget your manners
- Before the meeting, think about how to have the most interesting. Offer their own versions of the new acquaintance. Do they offer ask there.
- Do not be late to meetings: no one likes to wait.
- Do not violate personal space man.
- Be open to new places, activities and travel.
- use psychological tricksTo please the other person.
Hopefully these tips will help you to find new friends. We will be glad if you share your experiences.
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