I'm 29 years old female and I have no friends. In 2014 I started to drift apart from the friends I had back then due to my personal problems at home. Ever since then, I haven't been able to make any friends since I have no social life. I find it hard to make friends because I am afraid no one will like me and I don't have good communication skills. I tend to get nervous when talking to people. I'm tired of always being alone and not having someone to chat with. Any suggestions on how I can make friends?

Sorta in the same boat. I danced around the problem and just started focusing on myself, starting to work out and eat healthy, and also picked up some hobbies. I don't really have any friends yet, but people have definitely started talking to me more, and I feel a lot more comfortable in my own skin now. Sorry if that wasn't helpful it was just something I noticed in my life. Maybe so long as you have something you work on everyday that you find meaningful people are drawn to that

Seek for hobbies or activities on things you like to meet people similar to you. Otherwise online friends are always an option.

I can somewhat empathise, I was hoping to make new friends in university, but due to Covid I didn't really have any in-person classes for most of my university education until now. Maybe I'll have more luck in my Master's course. ^^ In any case I believe that talking on forums like these definitely helps starving off the loneliness, so if you want to talk about anything, feel free to! ^^ Always glad to listen, and reply, of course.

Might wanna make sure you haven't actually lost those friends to begin with.
They might still be your friends...are you no longer their friend? Drifting doesn't always mean they're gone.
Hopefully I didn't misunderstand the situation.
That being said, I'd lean towards #3's suggestion as that's probably what I'd do.
Can't guarantee that it'd work though, as my hobbies are pretty niche and I'm pretty autistic about them and that tends to work more like a filter in my case.
I hope this helps.

#6 here - I meant to ask, but forgot...what are you into?

Same boat here at 26, would love to help but I need some help too.

same boat at 26 too, idk how to get new frendos, i have a lot of ideas but in a real practise damn i suck as hell, help lmao

I never had any good friends, inschool as well. Now I'm going for the college entrance exams and still I just don't have any good friend. I hated school because of it anyway. Don't worry, neither of us here had a good friend either. That makes us all alike and friends in a term. Jut reply to any of the thread you'd like and you'll get new friends eventually

Many people don’t say it but in reality many people including me face this. Tbh ik it’s quite sad but I think we can make friends starting from scratch. Try joining any friendly communities or visit libraries and find friends there or try to reconnect with your old friends :) I hope you get a good friend soon. And good things and people will come into your life eventually. Cheer up!

Make a discord server/groupchat and put the link in here. I'm sure you'll find some really nice friends through that.

yeah they probably wont like you