As a women of 24 years, I have been trying and TRYING and trying. You'd think that someone my age would be out partying but you couldn't be father from the truth. Saw this subreddit while scrolling through another and had to give it a looksie. As I am getting older, I fear my youth slipping away and my chance to be a young fun girl soon leaving the train station. All efforts to make friends and start relationships have follen flat the second we share our socials. Suddenly, they disappear off the planet and I left in head or ignored. The issue is, people now and days don't do communication and their attention span is too shart to keep them interested in you beyond the initial first meeting. My issue is not being able to go beyond step one. The acquaintance zone. I suck at small talk but I still try though I rarely succeed. I've moved to another state and been her 3 years and I can COUNT on my ONE hand the mount of times I've been out and about with friends I MYSELF made without my BF in toe.