how to make friends with someone online
there’s someone i was in a class with last year who’s super interesting. i got their instagram at the end of the year. unfortunately, they have transferred away and it’s hard to catch them online at all…
but putting that aside, when they do come online what would be a good strategy to keep a conversation going? i think i know more about their interests than they do me lol since they wear a lot of merch and stuff. we might have a lot in common afaik but they don’t know me much.
and im a mediocre conversationalist in real life already and even more so over text… i try to ask a lot of questions and answer with a lot too but dont get much in response, so it ends up being interrogative on my side almost (at which point i make an excuse and leave). all my friends were made through shared classes and such where we don’t have to keep talking about random things hoping something would land all the time.