You’d be a multiple amputee then. I hear there are guys who are into that.
Sorry.
SARALEEI have a question
What did you do this weekend/holiday?
Just want to know if you are making any effort, not criticism, just a question
Capt
Have I told you lately that I love you?
Where’s the problem? If the OP is real, then we’re giving her the advice she asked for. If she’s a troll, then we’re giving her the attention she apparently needs.
That reminds me of my mom’s unsolicited advice to meet firemen: go to the fire station every day to get my blood pressure checked. She had to do that for a while because she actually had high blood pressure. My blood pressure is low and that would be kind of obvious (not to mention pathetic), so I didn’t take her advice. Then again, there are worse ideas…
If you’re imaginative enough, you’ll be able to create a situation where you meet firemen, policemen, doctors and lawyers. You can’t lose!
Well now I have my plans for next weekend 
Go to a Village People concert? I don’t think that’ll work out so good…
And that my friends was a trifecta, nice job and well played 
First kiss at around 24 (I think). First girlfriend at just past my 26th birthday. I was together with her for 9.5 years before it all went wrong and I’m now together with someone new that is absolutely amazing.
You’re young, there’s plenty of time. Stop panicking.
Regarding social anxiety, I’d recommend forcing yourself to take up something that not only forces you to deal with other people but to be actually physical with them. It could be a martial art, for example. Personally I dance Lindy Hop, which means I regularly am holding several different women a night in my arms, it just becomes second nature. I also met my current girlfriend there 
As an added bonus, due to the regular strenuous activity, a lot of the people there are in quite good condition and attractive.
Aha, a comrade-in-arms. Ironic huggles.
If you doubt the veracity of the OP and need to vent about it, please do so in the Pit. Keep accusations of trolling out of IMHO.
Yeah, but the trick is to NOT be charged with multiple felonies!
Right..because a 24 year old virgin on the SDMB is so out of character!
Ok OP, I’m not gonna go too nuts with this but here we go with two schools of thought.
I just moved for the summer to a brand new place (Woo Gulf Shores! 4 months vacation!) and I know literally no one. No friends, no nothin’. What I ended up doing with a friends advice is joining okcupid (as someone has already linked to) and literally just asking everyone in the area to talk to me and make friends. This has worked out relatively OK for me since I met one person on there who’s been pretty cool. I kinda say that to say this: If you haven’t joined okcupid it’s free and painless and with all of the problems I have in my life (plus I’m only three years older than you) I am very very receptive to people and their deep problems, look me up, we can just chat and be completely hands free (I doubt you’re even in this part of the country) and just be that soundboard that you need.
Second thing is this. If you are lacking confidence to talk to people there is a quick and easy way to build confidence. Go to the mall and for 30 min just walk around it and walk up to, or by, people and just say “Hi”. There is not a human being in this world who won’t say hi back. Just do that for a while, get the confidence to talk to strangers and simply say hi. Once you’re ok with that then go up to them and say “Hi my name is saraleee how are you today?”
Most people will give a paltry “fine thanks, how are you?” but it’s something…a bit more conversation. Once you’ve done that enough than you’ll be better with coming up to people randomly at bars and clubs and stuff and get talking with people.
In a lot of ways you and I are the same, I see a lot of myself in your posts…age, life experience, the whole deal. I’m not gonna talk down to you or tell you what to do…but honestly if you need a completely neutral friend who’s your same age and life situation…look me up, I love to talk to people 
Suspicion is such an ugly thing, Jeanie.
Here, direct from a Usenet text file I had saved since the early 1990s – yes, folks, the text I’m about to paste was once stored on a 5.25" floppy disk – is a very [del]helpful[/del] hilarious set of questions and answers. The references to “writer for a humor magazine” make me suspect it’s original provenance was a humor magazine, but beyond that, I have no idea who the original author was:
lol, I guess you have a limited appreciation for heavy leather.
It is, OKC is a free site. I kinda like it because of the huge questions system that allows you to cover alot of “dealbreaker” issues as part of the match system. On many sites I spend alot of time filtering the fundies from the more religiously flexible. By making the question “would you date an athiest?” a mandatory yes, it bumps the no answers way down the list.
Honestly I just now realized I never gave you my OKC name
TCups84
Anyone can hit me up any time
Bricker, I am 99% sure that is from National Lampoon’s Another Dirty Book.
I have a copy of it around here somewhere.
mmm
Saying you won’t date online is kind of like saying you won’t look for a job online- you are cutting out one of your most valuable tools. Something like one in five marriages started via online dating. Your choices are basically to wander around blindly hoping to run someone who is attractive to you, is attracted to you, doesn’t have any major deal breakers, and happens to be single (good luck!) or just go online and see a whole list of people who fit your needs and want to meet people like you.
Yeah, it’s awkward, sets you up for rejection, and can be nerve-wracking. Life is tough sometimes, and you aren’t going to get very far if you never put yourself out there. Nobody ever got their head cut off meeting for a coffee at Starbucks. Stop making excuses and either make steps towards what you want, or stop complaining.