How to meet new people for a shy person

The Internet provides people with the opportunity to find new friends, distant acquaintances, lovers and even spouses. To do this, just register on a dating site and start chatting with other subscribers.

Unfortunately, some netizens are intimidated by the very thought of expanding their social circle. It is difficult for such site visitors to strike up a conversation with an outsider and interest a potential partner. Let's try to help these users and discuss a step-by-step scheme for meeting new people.

Choose a place to meet and chat

First of all, you need to decide on the platform where you will look for interlocutors. It can be a forum or a social network. But if you are looking for a partner for romantic dates, flirting or a serious relationship, you should not have any questions about where to meet new people. In this situation, a dating site would be the best option, as its users have similar goals.

Before registering, estimate the average age of site users. Some venues are dominated by young people, while others are dominated by middle-aged people. You will experience discomfort not in your age category.

Register an account and complete your profile

With online dating, as with real meetings, the first impression is based on appearance and the ability to present oneself. Appearance can be conveyed with a high-quality photo. Special fields in the dating profile will help you to tell about yourself.

The following tips for meeting new people will help you complete your profile correctly:

1. Write interestingly and concisely. No need to create a multi-page biography. It is not interested in anyone. It is better to write with humor about your hobbies and lifestyle.
2. Tell honestly about yourself, without exaggerating your own merits and without inventing hobbies. If the information in the account is of interest to a potential partner, he will want to meet exactly the person he read about on the site.
3. Provide maximum information about yourself, except personal data. The fear of meeting new people should not be the reason for publishing a half-empty dating profile. If all users are afraid to write about themselves, there will be no one to communicate with on sites.

Find interlocutors and start chatting with them

Finding potential partners on dating sites is quite simple. There are special filters for this. With their help, you can select the age, gender, and place of residence of the user, and then get a ready list of candidates. You can open profiles from this list, view photos, read the information in accounts, and write messages to people you are interested in.

Starting a conversation is a difficult task for a shy person. Especially if you have a pronounced fear of meeting new people. But this fear is easy to overcome on your own. Remember that you are on the Internet, and not dating in real life. Here the interlocutor will not see you until you decide to meet him.

Also, in private messages, you do not need to painfully maintain a conversation and be afraid of the pauses that arise. You answer emails in your free time and do not sit at the computer around the clock. Therefore, no discomfort should be experienced. If the interlocutor turned out to be uninteresting or rude, no one will stop you from completing the communication and adding him to the black list. Learn these rules to finally overcome the fear of meeting new people.

You can write to a potential partner about anything, but it is better if the conversation concerns the hobbies noted in his profile. Ask the interlocutor about hobbies and interesting events from life. Answer questions about yourself. It is not as difficult as it seems if the dialogue is in writing.

If the user immediately wants to chat via video, you can safely refuse him. Connecting a video to talk to a stranger is not recommended. First, get to know the interlocutor better, and only then move on to video calls and personal meetings.

Be sure to follow the rules of etiquette when meeting new people. Remember that the Internet does not cancel the culture of communication. Say hello and goodbye to users. Never be rude or show your superiority. If you neglect your interlocutors, you will never find a partner for a serious relationship or romantic dates.

Arrange a personal meeting

Dating in order to find a future spouse or even just a man always ends with a personal meeting. But don't rush into a date. Chat with the candidate to get to know him better, and only then discuss the time and place of the meeting. It is desirable if the first date occurs a few weeks after the meeting. During this time, you will be able to detect incompatibility with a potential partner and break off relations.

A person who is afraid of new acquaintances will find it much more difficult to communicate in a real meeting. But this is where the humor comes in handy. Stay on the positive wave, and joke, and you will not feel embarrassed in the company of a new acquaintance.

What you need to be prepared for when dating online

The safest scam on dating sites is to provide users with false information. For example, you are looking for a man 30-35 years old, and a person over 50 comes to the meeting. The same applies to women who indicate the age of 25, but in fact, they are over 40. These people want to find a young partner, so they underestimate their age and expose old photos (or even strangers).

But this is a relatively harmless deception. On the Internet, you can also encounter criminals who want to steal money from you by any means. Therefore, do not tell anyone your real address and place of work, and do not give your phone number and bank card. If you've made an appointment, schedule it in a public place and let your loved ones know where you're going. This way you will avoid disappointment and more serious problems.