making friends in gaia?

[Folgor]

im just asking because ive been here a while and i do not have many friends surprised , is it just because they are young and immature or am i a shut in lol xD.

So im asking the geezers if they have advice or pointers or what not surprised  

[Shinigami Unity]

I just randomly talk to people. Sometimes that ends up bad - sometimes not. I'm pretty reclusive, though.

All I know is that the more friends you have, the more time it takes maintaining those relationships. And cripes, sometimes I barely have enough time for a shower let alone maintaining friends.

I is a loner. Wahh. crying  

[TheHellDevil]

I personally find that the slot machine and the pinball games to be great places for casual chat, especially if there's already a conversation going on. Sure, you're mostly going to find some young-uns but they can be pretty mature too. For the most part, I go there to deliberately make a fool of myself and blow off steam after a long day. The end result is a clear divide between those who are too uptight for me and those most tolerant of my pseudo-flaming and nonsense. Of course, I befriend the latter.

Guilds are pretty good for making friends too, especially if you join some of the smaller-but-active ones because the communities tend to be more tight-knit  

[pretty hate machine]

I've managed to find a few friends in the word games forum and some on a few guilds I belong to, but I'm the sort of person that likes few close friends, rather than a bunch of friends that I don't know very well.  

[queen of qeeks]

I'm the same way. I'd found a friend here and there, sometimes on a forum, sometimes in a game room. It just happens. Sometimes people are just shy. If you like how a conversation is going with them, then ask to bring it to PM or something before they scatter off. smile  

[Harbone]

Whatever you do, make sure you send a friendly PM along with your friends request. I guarantee you that, whenever I get a friend's request without a word of explanation, I do whatever I can to brush that person off.

Er... not that I get a lot of friends requests, but it really irritates me when I get them out of nowhere.*


*(For some reason, I don't mind if someone has the decency to explain why they want to be friends, but I find it inexcusable and a little suspicious to drop requests to form bonds on people out of nowhere, even if they're imaginary electronic bonds.)  

[Shinigami Unity]

Harbone

Whatever you do, make sure you send a friendly PM along with your friends request. I guarantee you that, whenever I get a friend's request without a word of explanation, I do whatever I can to brush that person off.

Er... not that I get a lot of friends requests, but it really irritates me when I get them out of nowhere.*


*(For some reason, I don't mind if someone has the decency to explain why they want to be friends, but I find it inexcusable and a little suspicious to drop requests to form bonds on people out of nowhere, even if they're imaginary electronic bonds.)

That just temps me. stare  

[bandaidd]

I say we all request to be friends with harbone.

I'm feeling a little inexcusable today.  

[Azure Alexea]

Yeah Ive found most of my friends through chatting in games... though people sometimes send me random friend requests too, and I just end up accepting out of politness sweatdrop  

[Miss Sweden of 83]

I don't have many friends either and I've been here since 03. All of my friends are from a Swedish guild I'm in. I rather have a few close friend than lots of people I don't know on my friends list.  

[Harbone]

Hear! Hear! Miss Sweden. You said a mouthful.

I don't really do much with the friends in my freinds list, anyway.
I kinda hate it when people treat friends like trophies or medals.
It's complicated.  

[Corbin Noir]

Harbone

Hear! Hear! Miss Sweden. You said a mouthful.

I don't really do much with the friends in my freinds list, anyway.
I kinda hate it when people treat friends like trophies or medals.
It's complicated.

I hate that the most on social networking sites. I normally avoid those, but I had to join one to keep my best friend company so I get these ad requests from people who have 999 friends in their friends list, and I'm like "WTF?".

As for me? I've been on the internet and I only have a single "internet only" friend -a woman from a support board I'm on (and she's more of an aquaintence, really).

For whatever reason, I don't connect to people on the internet. This is especially true of Gaia.  

[FallenSammy]

When you're in towns you end up with lots of friend requests and im too mean to say no, but then once every so often i just go through my list and delete anyone who I have nothin to do with and all the people i actually talk to are at the top of my list. I'd rather have a few good friends really and I tend to stay out of towns now, infact i'm that much of a hermit i just tend to com here to talk to more people cause i've found some of the young-uns to be rather intolerable, altho there are some decent ones out there if you can get past all the you're too old comments lol  

[virtuelessone]

All of my friends on Gaia are either related to me or friends from a rat forum I've belonged to for ages. (Yes, I said rat...I have rats as pets and they make fantastic pets.)

I also belong to a pets guild here on gaia and a rat guild and I'm getting to know people on that guild I'd like to get to know some older people, though. I feel weird talking to 16 year olds, I always worry that people are going to think I'm some weird ***** stalking Gaia for victims.