Hello and welcome , this forum has a lot of he the most amazing people on here!
So I doubt finding friends will be difficult here 
There is a official How-to for the forums thread if you have any questions about how the forums work.
And besides all the Episode related stuff on these forums, there are a lot of fun roleplaying and forum games you can participate in as well as random chat thread , in the general chat.
Oh and as a newcomer I should also give you a little warning for the reply limit as you can only write “X” amount of replies here 
Check out this thread if you want to know more about it —> Trust Levels & How They Work!