Hi there :-)

I'm completely new to this place, so forgive me if this is the wrong forum. I have been looking for such a massive forum with so many people and topics, and finally found this to be the best one.

As the title says, I feel really insecure around other guys. Especially around guys I don't know too well, or guys who seem really confident and outgoing. I tend to just clam up, and have no inputs for the conversation, something which I often have in other forums, for example when I'm around people I know well, girls or my family.

I have noticed that I don't feel this way around guys I find to be.. well, not insecure (how would I know?), but not as confident. There just has to be one confident guy present, and these feelings start to come up.

Considering I have a much easier time talking to girls, this might seem like a luxury problem, but I have found myself to have less male friends than I did a couple of years ago, and I'm having trouble making new.

This usually gets worse, the more people there's present in the room, guys or girls.

Anyways, this really bugs me. As I said, I have a hard time making new male friends, and I generally try to stay away from socializing when the particular guys are present (I live in a dormitory (is that a word?)), and when I'm there I feel awkward.

How can I work on this? Is it a matter of my own selfconfidence or does everyone else feel the same way? Any inputs would help me a ton