How old are you? I used to be extremely quiet and shy all the time, and i still am not very talkative at all, but i have realized that i just am not the most talkative person. theres people who talk a lot (more of them then us) and theres people who dont talk very much. I am better at holding conversations now that i am older and had some experiences in my life that i can use in a conversation, but even still i am not that talkative and im ok with that.

the things that have helped me out the most was being on the baseball team, you make friends with other players and can talk about being a player. then going to college and getting drunk i just start talking a lot more from the alcohol which is now a good friend of mine :foodndrink:
also with college it helps to join a club that you are at least somewhat interested in, you dont even have to care about the topic, if its cheap and something social to do once a week it helps.

the last thing that has helped me the MOST is getting a job. being at work you know you are going to have to talk to people and since you are working its a little easier to say something like "can i help you?" and "hi how are you today?". it may sounds silly but it is just repetition talking to people and soon you will just see someone you may not know well and say "hi hows it going?"

hope this helps, being quiet is not a bad thing i would rather have other quiet friends i can be comfortable around then talkative friends who are always on the go!

but there are plenty of those people so you cant just say f*** it im never talking to those people :tongue:

I had a former best friend I met in Junior Kindergarten. He was too smart for my elementary school so he left after Senior kindergarten. We stayed in touch every weekend and he eventually moved onto my street because our families were so close.

He was exactly like me when I was a kid. He loved video games, watching anime and making stuff with lego until I made a big mistake. In grade 8, I introduced him to my friends, the ones he had missed growing up with at my elementary school and they all slowly brought him in as a friend. He would always ask me if we could go hang out with them rather than just us. But as time went on and he would go by himself.

By grade 9 we were trying to get the attention of girls by doing rebellious things. We got into a lot of trouble for it but we also got girls. The difference between me and my friends was that when I got in trouble... I stopped. They did not but I had no problem with that because I could tolerate my friends being idiots. I couldn't on the other hand tolerate my best friend acting like this because his parents were super strict and like I said, he was exactly like me.

I started to pick up inconsistencies with my best friend through my friends. They'd often say he'd say he had seen a TV show that they were talking about but couldn't actually remember the specific episode. The same went for music, social situations and virtually everything. His knowledge and expertise would suddenly shift -- he'd be able to fit anybodies interests...he was a chameleon, I thought.

This story drags on for another two years, so i'll cut it short. My friends slowly got annoyed by this chameleon effect, while I was just angry that he'd do such a thing in general, so I let him get completely ostracized from our group. Our families never spoke again until 2 years ago. He eventually attended my highschool, where we kind've made up, but we were never friends after our "falling out."

Its a shame. The grade 8 kid in me really wants to ask him what he thought of Oblivion and if hes hyped for Skyrim...