No matter how socially dexterous one happens to be, there can still be times in life when we find ourselves lacking close friends and yearning for social interaction with people we truly click with. From moving away to new places to finding that our friends themselves have moved away or settled down, it is not the mark of a pariah to find themselves with extra time on their hands, but instead a natural progression of life.

However, whilst the more socially confident people may feel happy heading out alone to try and meet new people, other individuals will feel far less confident in social situations when they don’t have a safety net. And even those who are very socially confident may still find that they simply do not get to meet the right people just by heading out and about.

As we get older, our ability to make new friends changes circumstantially and the options available are usually reduced to other parents if we have children and those we work with on a daily basis. When we are younger and have more free time, it is far easier to meet people as we take on new pastimes, head away to college or university and generally find our feet. Furthermore, going through these processes with others bonds us even more, so in later life when we feel more settled it becomes even harder to strike up those strong bonds.

However, no matter whether you have seen friends move away and settle down or have yourself moved to a new area, meeting people is now as easy as heading online. Luckily, there will be numerous people in an identical situation in the same area, and it should be very easy to find people online to spend time with that you will truly get on with. In many cases, even those with a great number of friends can actually find people they warm to even more than their current social group, so such an approach can be used by anyone, whether they are socially very active or reeling from major changes in their life.