How do you make friends?

Started by Skip Class October 3rd, 2010 9:34 PM
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Skip Class

previously zappyspiker, but rainbow keeps trying to get me to skip class

Age 28
Female
New Zealand
Seen July 7th, 2021
Posted July 24th, 2020
4,713 posts
14.8 Years
When it comes to PC, What's the usual way your usual way you become good friends with someone?
Is it through someone who posts at lot in the same section you like to hang in? Is it one of those random "Hi!" VMs you can get and you want to get to know that person better?
Is it one of those times where you see someone post so often you drop them a VM?
Is it through The DCC or through playing forum games?
Through something you have the same Interest?

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PlatinumDude

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Age 29
Male
Canada
Seen July 31st, 2020
Posted May 30th, 2020
12,958 posts
12.7 Years
Sometimes whenever someone doesn't accept a friend request I send them (which doesn't happen often), I ask them to have a conversation with me. Then they usually accept afterward. Most of the time, if the person seems nice or cool, I send them a friend request.

Ryoutarou

Seen April 2nd, 2023
Posted December 29th, 2020
30,927 posts
19.3 Years
Genereally just by posting around in various areas and running into the same person quite often. I don't really make any effort to make friends here or in general, so it all happens by coincidence when it does. Now...with PC "friends" people just randomly friend me and that's that, not something I really care about since I don't know or care about 90% of the people who friend me. >_O

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Mt Moon
Seen May 27th, 2021
Posted October 31st, 2020
2,523 posts
14.2 Years
I've made most of mine through being friends with their friends.

As for how I make them, I don't particularly go out of my way to friend someone really. I just go with the flow, if someone speaks to me i'll make the effort to return the favour. It tends to just go from there.

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Aquacorde

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Age 29
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I welcome lots of new users and make friends by VMing them if they seem interesting. Or I VM someone to comment on something they said/have in their sig/etc, or I just make friends through forum games and people coming to my Nightclub~
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Seen January 4th, 2013
Posted October 21st, 2011
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13.8 Years
irl- i literally go out of my way to avoid making friends/acquaintances, but sometimes people just approach me or i'll have a small question ("what is the time" "can i sit here" "can you direct me to this classroom") that manages to escalate into a full-fledged conversation. i like to make everyone feel important, so as much as i don't want to talk to someone i don't have it in me to abandon a conversation.

PC- people approach me or i approach others if i have some sort of interest or i happen to observe something worth noting to them; occasionally small talk will ~blossom~ into friendship, but not often

Livewire

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Sunnyshore City
Seen December 3rd, 2022
Posted August 2nd, 2019
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13.8 Years
Usually, I find friends who post in the areas I'm active in. But i also got to know several people, very well i might add, (Looking at you, Nick/Shivi) by just a random VM.
Age 29
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Posted November 5th, 2017
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Back when I was actually interested in making friends I would just send a random VM to anyone who I've seen making some quality posts, or someone who seems interesting at all, and see where it goes from there. It usually doesn't take long to realise if they're worth talking to or not.
I don't really bother anymore though.

Zebeedoo

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Age 28
Female
Northern Ireland
Seen March 7th, 2023
Posted December 3rd, 2014
989 posts
14.4 Years
I really just tend to send a random VM to someone I like. Maybe because their profile is nice, or because their theme is eye-catching. After talking for a while, I ask if I can friend them. Though I have stopped sending random VM's to people now.. I'll just let them VM me if they feel like talking instead of me doing all the work.



Uecil

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Posted May 7th, 2021
2,567 posts
13.5 Years
I'm not sure, what I do..
It's usually people vm or pm me first, saying 'hello' then I reply back and then we just get to know each other a bit more.



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I usually try to start talking to someone on PC through a compliment. Which I just feel like is the easiest way to starting something if anything, but in honesty I don't vm even a third of the people I'm really interested in talking to. I just don't know where to begin and then if it doesn't go anywhere I feel like it was a wasted effort.

D: I really think I have terrible social internet skills. I'm much better at talking with people in real life because I can get a feel for what they're like. Where as on the internet I'm the one filling in all the blanks.

Cold Fusion

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Age 27
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Seen March 19th, 2012
Posted March 19th, 2012
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14.3 Years
Coming from a person that really isn't that social, I don't really comment on peoples profiles unless I'm in one of those moods where I seem extremely confident and I don't really talk on threads either, so most of the time a person will come to me instead of me to them most of the time but, I am willing to reply back even if it's a small "thank you" or a "you're welcome" which may eventually form into a long conversation.

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Sammi

Age 33
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Posted November 8th, 2021
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18.3 Years
Most days, someone will VM me, and we'll strike up a conversation that way. Sometimes it'll carry over to MSN but that depends on if I decide to get on or not! I'm pretty shy about starting conversations with people so rarely does it work the other way. ^^;

...this makes me feel more anti-social than usual.

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Guillermo

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Age 28
Australia
Seen April 11th, 2015
Posted May 18th, 2014
6,794 posts
14.9 Years
Back when I was actually interested in making friends I would just send a random VM to anyone who I've seen making some quality posts, or someone who seems interesting at all, and see where it goes from there. It usually doesn't take long to realise if they're worth talking to or not.
I don't really bother anymore though.
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Um, usually from other friends. I hardly ever make friends from posting around. That's happened maybe once or twice, haha.
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Age 31
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QLD, Australia
Seen June 5th, 2022
Posted April 23rd, 2022
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17.5 Years
Usually if they post in TCTI, or are friends with someone I know. Or alternatively... if I just get along with them in some other thread - or they vm me. There's no process for me, lol.
Seen January 1st, 2023
Posted April 20th, 2020
4,423 posts
15.4 Years
Back when I was actually interested in making friends I would just send a random VM to anyone who I've seen making some quality posts, or someone who seems interesting at all, and see where it goes from there. It usually doesn't take long to realise if they're worth talking to or not.
I don't really bother anymore though.
This. I suppose I've become more introverted on PC these days because I don't have much in common with a lot of people and I'm too busy IRL to give a lot of attention to the forum/maintaining friendships.