Doing those kind of things brings the opportunity to communicate with someone you may not have otherwise met. It gets you attention. You still have to talk to

Doing those kind of things brings the opportunity to communicate with someone you may not have otherwise met. It gets you attention. You still have to talk to them and form a relationship like any other interaction. For reasons I don’t understand I’m relatively good at making friends. I certainly have a lot of them. Maybe it’s simply because I am genuinely curious about other people and their interests. (A rather unexpected trait for someone who is quite happy hiding in the proverbial parent’s basement.) I still have a high miss rate. The only way to make friends is meeting people and talking to them. This doesn’t require being in person. Most of my current friends come from the furry community and many of them I met in chat rooms long before I met them in person.