expand my social circle

I live in Moscow. so, so, so big city… Sometimes, I feel that i have a routine like: home-job-home. I want to break it, and I want to expand my social circle, to have more interesting communications every day.

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Another great resource for expanding your social network is facebook.com if you use your current network to help extend the introductions. Your friends might know people who live in the same city as you do or who might share similar interests. Ask your friends to connect you two!

Or, meetup.com is an amazing website for instantly connecting to a group of like-minded people. So impressive.

Good luck!

I joined a meetup group for girls my age here. Nobody responded to me or said hello. I’ll try a meet-up anyway I guess and see what happens. I’m nervous. It’s scarier to meet girls than it is to meet a date.

I will smile more
I will be friendly to strangers
I will introduce myself to my friends’ friends

I’ve always been shy in social situations and need to work on this. I have been a part of some relatively close-nit social circles in the past, but those friendships drifted away when I moved further away to go to college a few years back. And the new friends I made in college weren’t truly self created friendships on my part (a socially-savvy friend did all the leg work for me and always pulled me into her social circles, and at other times would brush me off). These friends eventually fell away from me too, because I could no longer get along with the very friend who helped me into that social circle, because our friendship had never been all that strong or stable in the first place. We were competitive with each other, and our personalities clashed a lot).

Now I have a very small social circle, mainly consisting of my family, my fiance, my fiance’s family, and two of his friends. I would like to reach out to his friends more, and to reach out to brand new people too, by joining organizations/groups/clubs, going to social events, initiating conversations, etc. I hope I can do it =)!

Always been quite shy and never interacted with my peers much.
Have a great number of interests and do enjoy the company of others, so would like to be able to express myself better in group situations.

I wish I didn’t discriminate when it comes to making friends, but I have a hard time talking to adults and people of superiority. I also have a hard time talking to people with certain personalities…can’t quite explain it.

I would definitely like to try and do this. I have a lot of acquaintances, and I have a very good group of close friends, but I would like to expand my social circle and have the initiative to meet up with these acquaintances and hopefully turn them into friendships.

I move around a lot, so I love making friends! It’s always a good thing to make new friends and it can expand your interests and give you many new opportunities!

I have a few good friends and loads of acquaintances but I go through long times without seeing people.

I live alone and this makes me depressed.

I feel that I lack the self confidence to organise meeting up with friends. I feel that people don’t like me or are doing me a favour.

I would love to have a gang of good friends who I could see often and support and in turn be supported by.

I think I am a nice and fun and interesting person, but I am also overly studious and shy and competitive.

I find it very hard to initiate contact with people and to make the first move. Especially with guys.

I want to end the year with a bigger group of friends and strengthen links between the friends I have.

I don’t want to be alone on the weekends any more. I don’t want babysitting to equate to a social life and study to be an excuse for one.

I don’t want my excuses of the expense of going out or hosting parties or fear of rejection to stand in the way of being connected to people and in a community and happiness.

I need to work on this goal ASAp.

Any tips would be most appreciated!