Making friends while looking friendly

[grebedz]

How do you make sure you look approachable or just lest sad when making friends, maintaining relations, or not let the standard "how are you," which nobody cares about anyways get to you?

[hypercat54]

Hi we all say how are you to others and it is an essential part of small talk. Small talk is just that but can be a preliminary to finding friends. If someone asks me if I am ok and I'm not I just say something like I just say something like ' Ugh' and follow it with 'These things are sent to try us and they do', then smile. Hopefully they will smile back and then you have a connection. The worst thing you can do is tell them in detail how you really feel coz that will scare people off and they will think you are a negative nelly.

You haven't got to pretend everything is fine when it's not. This is what's called a closed answer and no further conversation will follow. But if you say what I do it's possible they will come back with more info such as 'My flaming car broke down today for the 100th time' Then you get into a conversation about cars. It's all about finding an opening. x

[Dolphin80]

I just fake it when I’m depressed. I put on more makeup and fake being happy in front of others. At least it doesn’t let others at work know what I’m going through because it’s nobody’s business at work. Hope u feel better.