Not sure about the app thing, personally dislike bars. Do you go to school? Met my male and female friends in my classes or my dorm in high school and college. Though I would meet people at parties at my friends apartments or my dormitory. I met one college boyfriend by the way of him being the best friend of my girlfriend's boyfriend (a double date set up by my friend). After that (in my 20s), met my friends through my job. Do you have a car? I guess I never was shy because when I met and enjoyed speaking with some of my girlfriends, (some lived off campus), I would drive to their homes and apartments and visit. I was so close to one girlfriend, that during my last two years in college, I usually stayed at her house (she lived with her mother) on Saturday nights. I think of these as being the sort of situations that lead to meeting someone special.