Wednesday, December 8, 2010

How To Make New Friends

By Lisa Kohlberg


If you want to learn how to connect with people, you certainly have to learn how to meet friends. Friends are a part of your social life. There are only a number of people who do not want any friends but most of us want to be surrounded by them.

Luckily, there are a few things you can do to ease up your anxiety and let you find new friends.

Start off by knowing what you really love to do during your free time. If you like to drink coffee or read books then join a book club where you can share the books you have read with people who have the same interests as you have.

Join social networking websites. This is much more popular these days. one tip though, always be true when you post your profile and always have your real photos on your page.

If you have a sport or any activity that you really like to try out, find someone or a group of people who are in to it. Then, you can approach them and ask them how it is done and the likes thus opening up another realm of possibilities.

Keep an open mind. Open yourself to the possibility that you are actually looking for friends and not someone special. People who instantly look for someone special are easily frustrated when all they want is just to be friends. So, meet friends first before other things.

Keep your conversations light. Nobody likes to talk to someone moody and grumpy so keep your conversation lighthearted and put up some smiles.

Eye contact should be done when you are talking to your new acquaintance. This means that you are meaning what you are trying to say thus incurring that you are telling the truth.




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