Wassup, world?
I see most people out here has a bunch of friends.
That leaves me, a new author with little friends (adopt me as a friend pls), wondering what, in your opinion, is/are the best way(s) to make goodfriends within the community?
Pretty sure there’s always someone in this forum from anywhere in the world would have the same question in mind as I do.
So yeah, suggest away!
#P/S: Follow me on Instagram, and I’ll return the favour!
Comment on threads, make jokes sometimes. Pretty much every friendship of mine didn’t begin with “wanna be friends?” This is my suggestion. Heck, support some people and you never know, you may gain an ally
So…yep, this is my recommendation, just comment stuff, am sure you will get a lot of cool responses and u may even notice the same person is responding to you to which you’re thinking in your mind “oh yeah, we are officially friends”
Just be careful though, there are some bad eggs, unfortunately. I consider myself blessed to have met such amazing people on Episode and am sure you will as well
For me, I think being honest and just acting like my regular self is how I became friends with a lot of people in this community. I’m quite opinionated, so I’m often commenting on discussion threads and then people who shared the same views as me would agree or reply or quote me… or maybe I was agreeing, replying and quoting them too Idk, but that sort of made it a mutual friendship thing even if it was never explicitly stated because it was just like we would always find ourselves on the same thread fighting for the same thing.
As well as this, a lot of authors I’m friends with just came about because I would recommend their story a lot so they had no choice but to talk to me because they felt guilty if they didn’t JUST KIDDING! Well, sort of lol. Now that I think about it, a lot of my Episode friendships did form after I read their stories hahaha
I know a lot of people have “families” on the forums. I’m not in one, but it seems to be a good place to start. There’s usually a couple of adoption threads floating around here lol
Brrrr, I don’t prefer casual “hi-bye” friends. Hurhur.
Like some of the conversations are just like-
This
A: “Let’s make friends, yay!” B: “Sure thing!” A: “How are you, friend?” B: “I’m perfectly fine, thanks for asking!”
Family on the forum. Hmmmmmm- Nah mate, I’ll pass. It sounds a bit weird though imo.
I guess starting a friendship by explicitly asking for one would work, but also there wasn’t any mutual connection prior to the start, and it’s kinda like ehhhhhhh.
A greatz way tu make friends is tu comment on lots of threads and try tu be helpful around here. One way I made friends was through forum family, but I understand it might not be ur preferred method, and it is kinda awkward for sum ppl. Many recommend PM-ing sum users, but tbh it feels weird. I would say make friends with ppl who seem interesting tu u and share sum funny stories.
Also, popping into sum of le forum restaurants can help u make friends.
Many authors who write on episode are here, how about recommend some of ur fave stories on recommendation threads and befriend them? Being a weird person, I kinda struggle with makingz friends, but soon, u’ll make sum eventually. Put urself out there and keep trying.
I made friends in a few weird ways. One was by ordering cherry in a shoe.
Keep a lookout for ppl starting PM chats and join them.
My fave way tu make friends is tu help others on le forums.
This. If you participate in discussions and speak up your mind, you will eventually find the people who share similar views to yours. I’m not shy but I’m introvert, so it took me a while to make friendships here, but I noticed that some people I like somehow found me and tried to interact with me from time to time. This often surprised me (in a good way), but at the same time it felt so natural.
First off, I’m just gonna assume your description isn’t something… coughfetishcough. Aaanyway.
This is so me as well! Like me, I don’t usually just reply to threads just because :)).
But I guess I should start to get into involving with posts or comments if I were to expand my network.
Bwahaha, I’m assuming @amberose and you met through idk recommendation or R4R?
One way to make friends is to comment a lot on threads and keep a lookout for people with interesting personalities. Then talk to them, or wait until they’re online and talk on the thread they’re in, casually asking questions. Then wait for the friendship to begin.
Or try helping somebody. That way you can make someone’s day better as well as make a new friend.