First off, you seem like a bright, smart, attractive 22 year old so you should ideally have no problem!

I'm guessing you're over thinking it and just need a confidence boost. Being aware of the fact that we want more friends can sometimes mess up our game so to speak. The less focused you are on it, and the more natural and *open* to new people you allow yourself to be, the easier it will be.

There is an amount of work involved though, in the sense that you *have* to be willing to ask them to hang out, get a cup of coffee, see a movie, or whatever in the beginning, and then follow up with them after. It's kind of like dating them in the beginning!

I'm assuming your in college, so finding friends can be relatively easy for you.

I've had best luck finding friends when I naturally became more conversation in class.

To find a friend you have to start talking to them at some point, so I would just try my hardest to make relaxed, chill conversation in class about whatever might be applicable at the time.

By simply trying to speak a few words to people you can figure out pretty quickly who you naturally connect with.

Also, it seems so obvious and like typical advice, but I can't stress this enough--- join a group!!! At *least* one!

Find a group on campus (or if you're not in school, looking online what interest groups are in your community) and just join! Groups often do large social events together, so that is a great way to start socializing more, and an easy way to be immediately invited to things.

Our generation is so much about technology, that is seems hard for us to do the whole face to face community thing. But I can assure you that being more involve in an activity or two is your ticket!

As long as your friendly, open, and yourself, I *promise* you will find some friends!

Best of luck! Let us know how it comes along!

Everyone goes through these periods, especially when changes come along and people are transitioning. Everyone is single, then there are bf/gf, marriages, kids, college, so many situations where things are in flux.

The main thing to do is to remain flexible and not be discouraged because it is usually only a matter of time before new people come along or your relationships with old friends readjusts itself.

If it is hard to get all of your friends together, then don't bother. See them one on one. Throw out invitations on Facebook or through texts to events you are interested in attending and see what happens. If one doesn't work, just keep doing it.

As for new friends, are you in school or just finishing up? There are lots of people you can strike up a conversation with or if you're graduating, you will be going on to work to meet a whole new crowd. If you are already working, have you exhausted the possibilities at your job? Are there other friends from high school you have lost touch with who you would like to contact?

Lastly, I would figure out something you have wanted to do but just haven't gotten to yet. If you have always wanted to do yoga, for instance, you would be able to meet a lot of new people with a shared interest. This would work for a lot of areas from joining a book club to taking a class or learning a new skill, anything that gets where there are people who are potential new friends.

The only other piece of advice I have is to not settle. When I have been in this situation I almost interview new people for the position of friend because it can be a problem if you get too close, too fast and there are personality conflicts that come up to make a really close friendship difficult. If you take it slower you can find that there are a lot of people you can have fun with in certain areas even if they are not absolute best friend material and it is easier to do that sooner rather than later.

Good luck.

Thank you, Vixens, I appreciate the effort you put into giving me advice and I will definitely take all of this in and apply it. I am determined to make new friends.... There has to be more people that I can get to know! :)

Baby steps.

Take a class or join a club that meets weekly. Then fill up another weeknight with another. And so on.

Soon, you'll find yourself with a very full life and loads of friends. I promise!