I Have No Social Life

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I am 18 and I feel like I have no social life outside the internet. The only other time that I have a social life is when I am with my parents or relatives. Most of the time when I have a social life on the internet I am talking to people on the internet forums and that is about it.

I want to go out and meet people but the problem is that most of the time I am stuck at home doing absolutely nothing since it is summer. I have not talked with anyone my age since I have got out of school and meet my cousins at my Florida trip. And whenever I try to chat with people on facebook they never talk very long and the conversations are very breif.
I wanna go places but I have no money really to get out and meet people or my friends. I am going to a Community College this year so I hope that I can meet some new people or my old friends.

Sometimes when I see my friends on Facebook I sometimes think that they have a better social life than I do. Whenever I see their pictures I see that they have way more fun time than I do. I see them involved in clubs and other various activitys.

What can I do to get out more and find a way to make new friends?

church, free classes at your library, volunteer to teach someone english thru local literacy council, volunteer at an animal shelter, volunteer at a food bank, free concerts in the park (may be winding down for this year), do the heartwalk (knock on neighbors doors and ask them to sponsor you in walking for the heart association), volunteer to teach a class on whatever you're good at at the library.

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Sometimes when I see my friends on Facebook I sometimes think that they have a better social life than I do. Whenever I see their pictures I see that they have way more fun time than I do. I see them involved in clubs and other various activitys.[quote]

Pictures are just a snapshot of a moment in time. Some people will only rely the positive information on Facebook. It is not that difficult to give a positive picture of your life, when it is only revealed in a few pictures and updates. People will probably prefer to talk to positive people (not only giving a negative picture of oneself on eg. Facebook).

To get a more social picture of yourself on Facebook - start thinking about what pictures you post, what you write in your update, what you like and when you click like on your friends pictures. Don´t take it to serioius - it is just a game. I used my Facebook profile semi professionally to connect to people that I would like to keep in touch with professionally. That ment a lot of thinking about what to write an which pictures to post. It is not lying, it is just selecting which episodes to reveal

I have no social life on the internet nor in real life.
I win.