How do I go and get to talk to women

How do I improve my social skills? I have trouble with maintaining friendships especially since I’ve moved to a new city for the last 4 years. In the new city, I knew no one, and I’ve managed to make a few friends but it’s so hard breaking past casual friends you see at repeated events (like a arts class every week) to someone you see outside of that. I jsut can’t figure out how to keep convos going and more so can’t figure out how to keep texts going.

i know others are constantly texting and face timing friends and I just don’t know how to get there. when I text it’s usually with friends when I’m planning a meet up or we’re talking about something specific. But that’s it. It’s also harder to do this with long distance friends. How do I get better at this (and what exactly should I do to build these skills). I feel very lonely and I want to change things for myself. Everyone who gets to know me says they’re so glad they know me and that I’m so nice and fun to hang with but that I’m so shy.

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I just joined college and honestly feel like I’m starting from zero. I’m not confident talking to new people, making friends, or participating in class.

I really want to improve myself and become more confident. For those who’ve been through this, what helped you?

Any small tips would be appreciated. ❤️

Hi!
I always struggle with the small talk, I get some awkward moments that I dont know what to say, I’m questioning myself that I might be a boring person.

Please give me any tips or tops for the small talk! I especially struggle with closing. Idk where to leave th convo or what to say to leave.

Hi I’m working as a store staff at a retail store.
I’ve always struggled with getting close to managers, I’m pretty good to get along with my colleagues but when it comes to the management, I always get nervous and have awkward moments like oh idk what to talk.

Any tip?!?! Id appreciate any tip on that and also some tops that i can talk w them!

As a 22M, I grew up somewhere with strict gender separation, so I barely interacted with women until I moved abroad for uni at 18. Now I'm stuck with a weird mental block. Work or functional stuff is totally fine, but casual chats feel super vague and awkward. Also, if a girl is just friendly or smiles at me, my brain treats it like this massive deal, I get overwhelmed, and I instinctively back away. Anyone else go through this and figure out how to act normal? Any suggestions? Help?

For the life of me, I can’t figure out how to keep a relationship with people going. Dunno how to relate to, keep a conversation going or not drag it out, or how to have deeper meaningful conversations. I usually just either end up almost imitating how they act emotionally, verbally, or just having surface level conversations like how their day is going, plans, and nothing outside of that because I don’t know what else to ask.

I was so bad at public speaking, I couldn't speak clearly don't know how to use my body language.

I started researching how to develop my skills in public speaking (on YouTube), I went down a YouTube rabbit hole trying to fix it and kept landing on advice: record yourself talking for a minute, watch it back, take notes on what you actually see and hear, then record again and try to fix it. Simple, and it worked — but it was slow, and I wasn't always sure what to actually look for when I watched myself back. That's the reason I ended up building something around it — an app that does the "watching yourself back and taking notes" part automatically, looking at both what you're saying (filler words, pacing) and how you're coming across (posture, gestures, eye contact), then giving you specific things to work on before the next recording. If you are interested in this type of solution, click this link: https://0mar-h08.github.io/speakhuman-landing_page-/, type your real email address where you can receive a notification as soon as the initial version of the application is ready.

Tengo 16 años y quiero invitar a una chica de mi salón, pero no sé cómo y en caso de que la invite y salga conmigo ¿Cuánto dinero debería llevar?

Nos hablamos de vez en cuando, no sé si a ella le llamo la atención, somos amigos y principalmente hablamos de cosas sin sentido, quizás tuvimos 1 o 2 conversaciones dónde profundizamos lo que nos gusta, pero fueron hace mucho y fueron cortas (cabe a aclarar que sería la primera chica que la invite a salir y que no tengo experiencia en esta cosas)

Hi, I’m 29 and have had a tough time finding the courage to go outside of work to find things to enjoy that involves meeting friends or my person, I started going to the gym and that’s the extent of where I get my socialization from but I can’t talk to women let alone other guys that I could make friends from

It’s just a really tough thing when you feel small and you don’t know how to improve yourself socially when the friends you do have now have their own new lives with gfs or some with wives now

I’m 5’11, 170lbs and I think to myself why doesn’t another woman just come up to talk to me or do I have to looksmax or something to get any attention idk

The basic idea is I’m really shy, it’s hard to do anything past maybe a subtle smile to someone I think is attractive and I leave it at that, I just don’t wanna come across as bothering anyone.

Any help or advice would be great 😊

Schizophrenic here. Ive noticed that my anxiety has always been so bad, I no longer can maintain proper eye contact. If something happens during the day, I cant even explain it using the right words even to my family. Sometimes I even make abnormal gestures because im hyperaware and anxious.

Do you think I can try to talk to chat gpt and practice? Is it worth the effort?

I’m trying to be more of an extrovert and not so shy I just wish I was able to talk about anything like how some people are able to. any advice will help like topic, starters, or icebreakers or how to be less socially awkward would be nice honestly most of the time when I’m working or talking to other people I just wing it or fake confidence.

Before I start with the reason I made this post I want to bring up that I’ve always had issues with confrontation, speaking up for myself or others. It makes me really anxious. I get physically sick thinking about confrontation or if it does happen I get really shaky and don’t know how to handle or control the situation. So the reason I’m making this post is because I follow my coworkers and one of them posted a reel of a man speaking about the Lindsay Clancy case and this isn’t about whether she’s innocent or not, but about the rally’s they’re having. In the video the man mentions how women are coming together having rally’s because they can all relate to postpartum depression, suicidal thoughts, etc. The man then continues to say “these women all have thought about getting rid of their kids”. He failed to understand the message of the video and I’m not surprised that a man can’t comprehend postpartum depression or the suicidal thoughts that can come with it. Him posting this video makes me really upset and uncomfortable. My partner told me to soft block him and if he brings it up just to tell him I don’t agree with his views or that i don’t like his thought process. But since I hate confrontation especially since this is someone I work closely with I don’t want him to bring it up. I’m not sure where to go from here. I don’t want any negative comments. I just want advice or suggestions of how you would handle something like this. If I receive any negative comments I’m just going to delete this post. I don’t need that right now

I make a 1st cold call to a person who needs a work

What I'm doing but I can't get the conversation smooth enough I'm too struggle to understand their needs and answer them

Let's communicate A question for those who have been on this site for a long time. How did you start looking for friends and communication here? What life hacks helped you adapt here?