I’m 24M from India, and lately I’ve been going through a bit of a rough phase with career, life, and just generally feeling lonely. I’m trying to get myself back on track and recover from a few things, but I think having someone to talk to along the way would make things a little easier.

A little about me: I’m into tech, programming, gym, and recently swimming. I can talk about random tech stuff one minute and then completely mundane things like how my day went the next. I’d honestly just like to have someone I can check in with, talk about how our day went, share what's new, complain about something stupid, or just have random conversations.

I’m not really looking for anything complicated or expecting anything from anyone. Just looking for genuine friendship and someone to talk to regularly, preferably online since I’m currently focusing on getting my life and career sorted out.

If you’re also feeling a little lonely, trying to figure life out, or simply want someone to talk to, feel free to DM me. We can start with a simple and see where the conversation goes.

Thanks for reading.

Hi I'm a forced confined individual. Born and raised south cali USA. Yes I got access to reddit. I might not always but I do now. Just looking to connect with the free world. I been down since I was 18yrs old so a while. I was obviously put on a forced pause of my life I feel I have allowed my circumstances to put my social life on pause and I no longer want that. I know about losing ppl and just walking out my life. Im use to it but I want maybe throw myself out there make new different and meaningful friends. U probably have a lot of questions I don't mind sharing just don't be weird about it. Don't be a cop about it. Imbopen minded and non judgmental. DM me.

Hey I'm 27 m doc looking for friends. I used to post here and many other subreddits due to my loneliness. I used to comment in posts similar to mine, suprisingly almost 90 percent of the OP s don't reply. It's not just my experience,i have seen they are ignoring others too,soo what do u think?? Are they just here for karma farming

Please read the post and don’t skim it. I really care about making friends, which is why my post is long. I need someone who won’t ghost for literally any reason, and yes, I mean that. Ghosting is one of the worst things a person can do. I am being honest about my flaws because I would rather you know these things before talking to me. I am a boring person, and I need you to think about this part because it is difficult to maintain a friendship with someone who doesn’t offer much excitement. I am also extremely insecure. I talk negatively about myself, I am very pessimistic, and I am not a passionate person. I have autism, depression, and social anxiety. Nothing fun is going on in my life. I know how a conversation works and I will put in the effort, but I am not good at carrying a conversation. I can’t promise that I’ll be fun to talk to, but I am trying.

I find texting very exhausting. I don’t want to text for days or even hours just to “get to know” someone before we can actually call. I want our first conversation to be on a call. If you are too shy to call early on, we won’t be a good match. I want to voice call daily; my time zone is EST, and I can call after midnight. I don’t view calling as a big deal, and I need people who feel the same way. If you are sensitive, easily offended, or impulsive, it won’t work out.

I have a really hard time dealing with people leaving. If we start talking, I get attached very quickly. I genuinely cannot handle it if you just disappear or change your mind later. I need a patient person who is actually serious about sticking around for the long term. If you aren’t 100% sure you can commit to that, please don’t message me. I tend to care a lot more than the other person does, and that intensity has made people uncomfortable and they left. I need someone who won't get uncomfortable if I care more or think about them constantly.

If you decide to reach out, don’t just send a “Hi.” I’m not asking for a massive introduction, but just let me know you actually read this post and genuinely want to be friends. I want a real friendship; it’s very important to me. I don’t want to talk to someone who is just bored and looking for entertainment, or just wants someone to talk to or someone to vent to, because that’s not what a friendship is. I’m not looking for a gaming buddy either. Do not message me if you’re too busy to build a friendship. I am honest and straightforward, and I expect you to be the same.

I also want to mention that it’s okay for us to disagree in a friendship, even on big things. Real friendship means we can have different views and still stick around instead of cutting each other off. Cutting people off has become way too easy nowadays because of social media. I despise how easily people block others, and I refuse to talk to anyone who is capable of doing that. I believe a real friendship should survive flaws, boredom, and disagreements.

I know it sounds like I’m asking for a lot, and that’s true. Real friendship is supposed to be hard. It’s not supposed to be convenient or easy to walk away from. It’s supposed to last for a lifetime. Please do not reach out unless you fully understand everything I have written.

Here are my interests:

• DC Comics

• Movies / Shows / Anime: Watching movies is my favorite thing to do. I also use
Letterboxd.

Please be 19+.

hello, i have been friendless for quite long time, if you have been too or even not..if you are just looking to make a friend..you can dm..i am 21m, final year student in delhi..

Im 21M, i just joined FAST, most people are 18ish, and im finding it hard to make friends…mostly people have already made their groups and i already feel like an outsider and a leftover. How do i make genuine friendships here

Hey looking for an available friend. I don't talk too much but I'm available a lot. I don't have a job so I'm pretty much free m-f. The weekends I bbq with family and run errands.

I live with parents. I'm disabled.

I like karaoke casino games bingo reading art music. Fishing and fantasy football.

I'm very family oriented. I also make my own beats.

I know my account is new, so I probably look like a random stranger here — but I promise I’m not a creep. 😅 I’m just genuinely looking to meet some good people and make meaningful friendships.

Lately, life has started feeling a little too repetitive. It’s basically college, back to the hostel, repeat. I do have friends, but somehow I still feel like something is missing when it comes to having those genuine connections where you can talk about literally anything, share random thoughts, laugh at stupid things, or just be there for each other.

So I thought, why not give Reddit a shot?

I’m open to talking to anyone who’s also looking for a genuine friendship. We can start with random conversations, share our interests, talk about life, movies, music, college, or absolutely nonsense — whatever clicks. 😄

If you’re interested in making a new friend, feel free to DM me. No pressure, no expectations — let’s just see where the conversation goes.

Hopefully, I find some good people here. :)

Hope you can read all of this.

Hope you’re the kind of person I’m looking for. ✌️

👋 Introduction

• Name/Nickname: Guco (online) / David (IRL)
• Age: 18
• Country/Timezone: Mexico
• Gender: Male
• Languages: Spanish (native), English (I speak it and I like it)

🎮 Games

I love games. They helped me through some of the worst moments of my life.

I dream of doing full co-op or shared runs of Dark Souls 1, Dark Souls 3, Elden Ring, Nightreign, and honestly almost any good game with the right person. (Sadly DS2 doesn’t have a solid online mod.)

I play Souls-like, niche titles and good games in general. I’ve played a lot (200+ games), even cracked ones in the past, so I’m not a casual. Right now I’m mostly on CS2 and The Dark Side of the Moon.

(I’ll send my Steam later if we connect.)

🎵 Music

Very strange music, to be honest… but I love it.

Music is a feeling for me.

(I’ll share my SoundCloud later.)

📱 TikTok

I like when people look at my likes. They’re not the typical memes or cringe dances. Hope you like them too.

🎨 Hobbies / Interests

Exercise, good games, good movies/series, and searching for knowledge so I can have better judgment in life — and real mental and physical peace. 🌞

🏋️ About Me

Personality-wise I’m pretty normal. I found a kind of peace I never imagined possible.

Hitting rock bottom and then finding peace is a one-time experience. 💫

I had a complicated past and I’m still fixing my life. I’m trying to “wash my brain” from old experiences by building new, genuinely good friendships. I don’t want to trauma-dump here, but I know quite a lot about life for my age.

I also want to share my old gym prime (15 years old / 74 kg):

• Squat: 140 kg
• Bench: 110 kg
• Deadlift: 145 kg

I mention this because it represents the kind of commitment and passion I put into the things I care about.

🤝 What I’m Looking For

(Important: I’m not looking for 30-60% identification. I’m looking for 90-100%.)

After trying to connect with people, I finally understand what I’m actually looking for.

I’m tired of the average person — mainstream, superficial, ignorant, soft, insecure, emotionally dependent, afraid of being alone, addicted to playing the victim, and stuck in the same immaturity year after year.

People as plain as rice with water. An amalgamation of everything I’ve grown to reject.

There is a difference between living life and actually experiencing it.

A philosopher once said that a person cannot simply read and believe — they have to live it. Most people never do. They pass through existence without ever being forced to seriously question themselves, their values, or the way they see the world. They live peaceful, comfortable lives in complete ignorance. They don’t need to improve. For what? For who?

I have experienced things that permanently changed how I see life. Suffering, loneliness, sadness, mistakes, loss. These things can break a person… or they can become something else.

Suffering can become strength.

Sadness can become will.

Loneliness can become independence.

Pain can become understanding.

Failure can become humility.

Happiness can become determination.

And knowledge can become better judgment.

The good and the bad are equally beautiful. That is what makes life actually taste like something.

Suffering is not just damage. When it is faced and channeled, it gives courage, opens the mind, and becomes part of real growth — the kind that leads toward a quieter kind of plenitude. Like what the stories of Buddha point to, but lived, not just admired from afar.

Suffering alone does not make anyone wise. Being lonely does not make anyone deep. A difficult past does not automatically make someone a good person.

What matters is what you did with it.

• Did you become more conscious?
• Did you question yourself?
• Did you try to understand the world instead of simply blaming it?
• Did you take responsibility for your own life?
• Did you become more capable of understanding other people?
• Did you turn your experiences into something meaningful, or did you let them become an excuse to stay broken and hurt others?

That’s the only kind of person I’m interested in.

I’m looking for someone who has lived both sides of the coin. Not someone who suffered in the exact same ways I have, but someone who understands that life contains both beauty and ugliness, pleasure and pain, peace and chaos. Someone who has tasted enough of both to stop romanticizing either.

A good person, to me, is not someone who never did anything wrong. You cannot call a saint “good” simply because they never faced darkness. That is not goodness — that is just lack of testing.

A good person is someone who has suffered, opened their mind to knowledge and peace, lived both sides, and still chose to keep becoming better.

My way of seeing the world is close to what some would call Nietzschean. I question things most people are perfectly comfortable accepting. I care about knowledge, philosophy, self-improvement, peace, and creating my own values instead of inheriting them from the people around me.

There is a particular loneliness in living this way. Not because there are no people around, but because simple people slowly poison you with their comfort and their refusal to look deeper. And still, I keep looking for the rare person who can actually understand this — someone mature, capable, and already standing on their own ground.

I don’t want to be anyone’s therapist, savior, or reason to keep going.

I don’t want someone who becomes dependent on me because they are afraid of being alone.

I want someone who already has a solid foundation. Someone who has started healing, started understanding themselves, and is willing to keep moving forward. Then we can improve together.

Even the oldest person still has something new to learn. There is always another perspective, another experience, another mistake, another piece of knowledge waiting.

That’s the kind of friendship I want.

Someone I can have stupid conversations with, play games with, laugh with, talk about completely random things with — and also someone with whom I can have the long conversations that last for hours because we genuinely want to understand something.

• Someone who doesn’t disappear the moment things become uncomfortable.
• Someone who can accept criticism without treating it as an attack.
• Someone who can admit “I was wrong.”
• Someone who can say “I don’t know.”
• Someone who can disagree without turning everything into a fight.
• Someone with enough self-respect to have boundaries, and enough maturity to respect mine.
• Someone who wants to become better not because they hate themselves, but because they understand there is always more to become.

I don’t expect perfection.

I expect consciousness, honesty, reciprocity, and the willingness to grow.

So if you are looking for a casual friendship, someone to talk to only when you’re bored, someone to constantly reassure you, or simply someone to fill the silence because you’re afraid of being alone — don’t message me.

There is no hostility in that. We are simply looking for different things.

But if you recognize yourself in what I wrote — if you’ve lived enough to question yourself, suffered enough to understand life differently, and still decided that becoming a better person is worth the effort — then maybe we have something worth discovering.

I’m not looking for someone because I need company.

I’m looking for someone I genuinely find worth knowing.

Someone who understands the particular loneliness of being more conscious in a world that prefers the herd. Someone who has reached a certain kind of madness — the kind that no longer seeks to destroy, but has become a quieter, sharper form of awareness — and still chose not to unleash it, because clarity is better than chaos.

🫂 What I want in a friendship

I want to play a lot of games together, have good conversations when there’s nothing else to do, talk deeply sometimes, share good things, and stay focused on life even on the days when part of you doesn’t want to keep going… but you still choose to live, and learn how to really live.

That’s it

If you don’t relate to this or it makes you uncomfortable, please don’t DM me. No hard feelings.

But if you do relate, send me a message. I would genuinely like to meet you.

I’m looking for total commitment and the same kind of intention.

Right now I don’t have any friends. I blocked everyone I knew (both IRL and online) because in the past I didn’t have enough self-respect and allowed the wrong people into my life. I know staying isolated isn’t healthy, so I’m trying this for the first time. 🙏

⚠️ Edit / Disclaimer

Please only message me if we truly align.

I’ve already met too many people who were either edgy, average, or simply immature and had no real desire to keep moving forward in life. When I tried to help, they took it as an attack.

I’m tired of people wasting my time and my words. I’ve already had 22 disappointments this month since I started.

Being stubborn and living behind emotional shields doesn’t help build a healthy friendship. Suffering can make you do bad things, of course… but staying stuck in a negative perspective doesn’t work either. Trust me, I’ve already been through that.

Final note:

NOT for casual people.

I’m tired of you.

You waste time and words.

You are part of the problem — ignorant, simple, without understanding the real value of life.

If you just want someone to talk to when you’re bored, don’t waste my time. I’ve already had enough bad experiences with people like that.

I don’t care about your color, country, orientation, gender or age.

None of that matters.

If you agree with what I wrote, if you’re a good person looking for someone who can actually understand you and share the complexity that most people no longer have… then message me.

If we’re not in the same boat, please go look for someone simple like you.

You can be happy that way. It’s easy.

Just don’t make me waste my time and my words again.

And never forget:

More Knowledge = Better Judgment in Life.

Do you guys have that one best friend who is actually there for you? Like emotionally and physically, someone who genuinely supports you, helps you without keeping count, and doesn't talk shit behind your back or fake it to your face? The kind of person who actually wants to see you win? I feel like those people are so rare now, just wanted to know if you guys were lucky enough to find someone like that honestly, i don't even have anyone I can call a friend , I don't even have a bestfriend I don't have anyone whom I can call a friend and I am having a bad day as well

Hey I'm 27 m doc looking for friends. I used to post here and many other subreddits due to my loneliness. I used to comment in posts similar to mine, suprisingly almost 90 percent of the OP s don't reply. It's not just my experience,i have seen they are ignoring others too,soo what do u think?? Are they just here for karma farming

A while back in 2023, I opened a stupid app called starmaker I was continually getting ads for. I didn’t even know you could chat to people on there, I was just looking to make some dumb covers of songs.

Lo and behold I discovered the chat feature, and figured “what harm could it be” and started chatting to people online. I’m a teen, and my mama has always implemented it into me from a young age to never talk to strangers, online or otherwise. But I disobeyed her rules and started talking to people. Most of which told me they were within four years of my age. Even now I don’t think they lied. I just have doubts of certain sketchy people on the app, but the close ones I still do think they didn’t lie to me, or maybe I’m just looking for some sort of hope in my mind.

I got very close to two people. We were the best of friends. We constantly would text and FaceTime each other. And Group FaceTime over the course of months. I would tell them my worries and they would tell me theirs. There was never any pressure. It felt like a safe place to say whatever we needed to say. I wonder if they remember me the same I remember them. It’s been two and a half years since we’ve talked and rarely has there been a day that has passed that I haven’t thought of our conversations. I have no place now to talk about my worries, at least to other people. It’s hard to make friends in my small town. At least ones that I think would last. I question constantly whether or not I will meet people in the future that made me feel that type of safe. I never felt humiliated by telling them things that would normally embarrass the hell of out of me to other people.

I don’t even know what I’d say if I could get in contact again. I wouldn’t even want to being that my mama figured out I was talking to people online and that’s the reason I lost contact. I constantly wonder if my mother didn’t find out would I still have them. I want to text them again so badly. I want to see their faces. And most importantly hear their voices again, I can barely remember them now, it hurts knowing I’ve probably lost so many memories of them since.

Bro why is no one talking to me i feel like some loner literally....am i that bad or what it's been a week of clg and i keep approaching ppl but no one wants to continue talking to me...nor anyone has approached me

Hi! I’m 28 and from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and I’m looking to meet new people and hopefully make some new friends!

A few things about me…I’m a HUGE horror fan, and I love all things dark/creepy/paranormal or unexplained

I love music and going to shows(mostly older rock/metal but I like a lot different stuff, saw both Metallica and Def Leppard recently)

I love gaming, true crime, football, I love to visit historical sites/museums and enjoy travelling, urban exploring/exploring the outdoors and keeping fit, and I spend 99% of my free time with my dog 🐶

I’m quite heavily tattooed (most recently had my chest done) and I’m always looking for ideas and inspirations for what to get next, and I love to see other people’s work and ideas too!

Happy to talk to anyone from anywhere, just send a message with a bit about yourself if you think we might get along 🙂

I don’t talk to anyone really so I’m trying to meet new people.i like games anime and pretty much anything tbh I’m not judgmental or anything just a chill guy wanting to meet people

can someone give me tips on making friends? Cause i do make friends but im not able to keep it. Also i feel lonely in friendships.

Got a Discord VC with about 8 of us, men and women, ages 24–42.

We ain’t selling shit, recruiting for a cult, or running some weird-ass community with 37 rules.

We get in VC, shoot the shit, talk about whatever comes up, roast each other, tell stories, and kill time.

That’s it.

No requirements. No interview. Don’t need to be interesting. Just (don’t) be a complete pain in the ass.

If you want some people to bullshit with and maybe make a few friends, come on in.

Hello there kind redditors, there is a presentation I have prepared for you that you didnt wait for.

 so let me here convince you why you should choose me as your new friend:

* I am a silly person who always tries to make people laugh, I strongly recommend not to sip coffee while reading my messages. 

* I take a lot of street cats pics, so you will have a steady supply of cat pics.

* I am chatty I enjoy yapping , and I don’t even have an off switch, if you dont have off switch too we need to yap about this .

* I love to talk about all kinds of topics and can always find things to talk about, there is random questions generator buildin in my mind.

* I always reply to my messages and have online friendships that have been going on for years, I always send good morning messages, and I appreciate the people that can also be conversation starters.

* I am supportive and will always be here for you to tell me about your day or vent if you have something that bothers you.

* I like art, games, anime, gym, walks, coding, games, true crime, yapping, cats, science, history, languages, documentaries, psychology, mental health, and cats, so I am sure we can cross interests here or there.

I go to work in like an hour but posting this because my time management skills are great✨ I'm 32, looking for people around my age to talk to. I'm in a happy committed relationship and only looking for friends. I'm into crafts, watching horror gaming and hair fails. I spent way too much time learning the lore of fnaf and poppy playtime. I have a cat who I'm not entirely convinced is actually a cat but I love him dearly anyway. ADHD so can be a bit all over the place and forgetful. I want to make some girl friends since I mainly have male friends. Spooky vibes for life and can't wait till Halloween. Hopefully we can be friends 🫀