When I feel lonely, I find that it helps to ask myself what it is that I'm looking for from another person. Do I want sympathy? Do I want to do a certain activity? Questions like that.

If it's sympathy that you're looking for in the form of kind words, you could simply come to this forum and get that. If you're looking for advice, you could also come here as you do. If you're looking to do a social activity like see a movie with someone, then that's more of a challenge. I'm a person with no friends, so it's a challenge that I understand quite well. Who do I see a movie with? There's nobody I can call up and ask. So where do I go to meet people?

I suppose there's social events/groups/etcetera that I could check out, but then it's a matter of whether or not those things interest me. I would feel strange joining a reading group with no interest in reading and eventually, other people would pick up on that lack of interest and wonder why I'm there. It would be an awkward situation to put myself in, so there's no use.

I suppose that I could post an ad on Craigslist or something similar, but that feels strange too. It's not something that that the majority of people do when looking to make friends and I feel that there's a higher risk of meeting dangerous/mentally unstable people.

I also often find myself not liking people. They're annoying, we have different values, etc.