#how to make friends

[curseofhyperfixation]

Beta Collector everyone

[mangoofthesea]

I saw a post today talking about how difficult making friends can be, as well as maintaining friendships, and as someone who has spent the last few years learning how to maintain friendships while moving a couple times and some big life events. One of the best things you can do for a friendship is organise to do THINGS.

Not just meet and talk or chat over message. Arrange to go swimming, or for a row boat ride, cook dinner together, try making clay creatures and laugh at how bad they are. Go to see a play or a singer or a waterfall.

Sit on a call together in silence while you crochet or watch something at the same time in different locations.

Or while you both draw or do dishes and say the random questions that come to mind 'do you think aliens could exist?' 'How can you tell when you're in love?' 'There’s a really cool bird out the window I think you'd like it, it's all blue and green!'

The key is to not try to keep the friendship for the sake of it, but enjoy the Person and their company

Maintaining of a friendship over time requires effort, but also acceptance that you won't speak or see each other all the time. My 3 best friends are all from different phases of life and I have had periods of months or years where I didn’t speak to them just because we had shifted how much we saw each other.

You see them when you see them, you speak when you speak, but you'll find people who with even a tiny amount of effort (a birthday gift, a card, a meme sent, a message or a gif) you can hold onto. People who mean the world to you even though you only see them a could times a year.

I once heard the phrase that friends are like stars, even when you don't see them, they're still there.

Friendships that truly mean something aren't like sitcoms or movies. Life is more complicated and people are too, don't feel bad if your friendships don't match up to what you expect, or if you can't be there all the time.

All things considered, I'm a pretty shit friend sometimes, I forget birthdays and I'm useless to get hold of sometimes. But on either side of friendships that I have, we both make enough of an effort that they're still there.

I'm going to the cinema tomorrow with a friend I've had since I was 11 (or 13 depending how we've decided to measure it that day) and I haven't seen in person in nearly a year. We're still going to have a great time.

Your friendship takes whatever form works for you, don't lose sight of the people you love cos the way you love them doens’t look like 'it's supposed to'

[moonshadow-thoughts]

Trying to figure out how people make friends and find a partner. Can you write in the tags where you meet your friends/partner and how you became friends/ got into a relationship please?

[destielvalentineszine2025]

re: making friend on tumblr

tumblr is the best place to make friends cause it takes out the "embarassing face to face reaction" part of real life. so its easier for someone to shoot their shot.

you think someone's posts are funny? go tell them you think theyre the new king of comedy. their username is so good its your new vocal stim? TELL THEM. you saw their posts searching for moots? go say hi. they have certain opinions on things that you agree with? TELL. THEM.

tumblr is like kindergarten. everybodys doing their own thing and you can come upto someone and ask if they want to color with you and theyll come along with you.

best part is if they dont want to interact with you they wont!!! shooting your shot is still worth it. there's a community for everything here. there are at least 10 people as insane about your blorbo as you are, probably more. so you can find someone who matches your exact energy, or maybe youll find someone who's nothing like you but still have companionship!

another thing is friendships dont have to rely on approximation and first hand conversations. they can exist as reblogging each others post and sending them things that remind you of them. its parallel play. not having said anything to a friend here for a year doesnt mean youre not friends any longer.

so dont hesitate to talk to people. im sure they would be just as happy to talk to someone who thinks theyre cool as you would be.

I LOVE likening it to kindergarten. I think there’s something so special about the like - openness? Many people have? Like maybe there are less rules than out in the real world, and you can just show up as who you are!!

AND THE PARALLEL PLAY STUFF!!! Yeah!!!!!! I think there really is something to be said for - engaging back and forth in whatever small way (reblogging, liking, etc) & over time moving into prev tagging or DMing someone their own post to continue the conversation of whatever they had to say!!!

[teacuphs]

HOW DO PPL GET ONLINE FRIENDS I WANT SOME SO BAD😭

[winchesterride]

My friend's boyfriend is in the season 7 of spn (hes in ep 2 it's been like half an year)

I said: "I know is kinda boring but don't quit." He asked: "give me a reason to watch this season." So I went: "Sam's arc" (cause it's amazing) and he asked why and I said: "You know castiel broke deaths wall, he gets really fucked up".

"Nice." He said and then looked ashamed. "I... don't know why but I kinda enjoy seeing Sam suffer. I know it's weird."

And i went: "No. No. No. It's completely understandable. Not just him, Dean suffering is amazing too. They look so hot when they're miserable."

And then he complemented jared acting skills and how good he does emotional scenes. I think she's dating the right guy.

[wandasvamp]

i need more friends… but idk how to make them lol-

[chasingthestarss]

How does one make friends? Like it baffles me that some people just make friends, how? Do you accept applications?? Can I give you mine? How does this work? Do I just say I like Taylor swift and the mauraders, what do you like? Are we friends now?

[sam24seven]

I need feminist friends to talk about feminism with

Please

[potatothemouse]

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hi I’m potato the mouse. My pen name is nori. I will be posting OC’s I create for different ideas I have for worlds I create. (Mostly just mythical creatures). Hope you stick around to see me develop my world and my characters. I’m 15 she/her aro/ace

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[starjammiez]

why is it so hard to make friends, i feel like no matter what it always dies before we can become real friends, i just want a BFF i can talk to every day :(

[hi-speedroids]

someone pliss how the fuck do you make friends or do friends just spawn from nowhere and sudenly you have someones contact

genuenly i want to make more friends cus friends are nice but how do you make friends

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[zeveck]

how to make friends if you can’t speak or write well

Like i’am not good at writing but what do I do?

Like how do you be a good friend?

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[myfriendstoldmenotto]

Question, how do you make fandom friends in real life?? Like I don’t like talking to people but i need someone to talk about fandoms, I’m going to go insane

[lucifermonsii]

Sometimes i question how ppl even make online friends like tf you mean i gotta start the covo i dong even know how to say shit

hell i dont even know how i made friends in schoomls

[dngrcpckwithmurdericing]

Next time sometime wants to know how to make friends, here's what I'm going to say: join an active wordscapes team. I joined a new one today that is super chatty and has its own Facebook group, and I've already been invited to multiple dinners and potlucks and game nights, both in my area and in other places around the whole world. This must be the "join a bowling league" for the digital age. 😂