How far can you open up

sorry iMoloko, edited the title for removing confusion.
and i understand tides, it just seems hard to try to have a friend or something imo.

Hahaha now it looks worse. Dammit. Cannot unsee. ;__; And d'aw you didn't have to do that for me.

Friendships begin over laughter, conversation comes later.

Stupidly and a bit sadly, some of my internet-made friends know more about me than my own best friends.

Im a lazy greedy and lustful dude who is apathetic to most things in this world. My friends are assholes and I drown my life in weed, alcohol and women. Then go on the Fakku to talk to other hentai and anime fans to try and find people I relate to.

I can open up to nearly anything anonymously, like on Fakku. But I'm pretty reserved when it comes to face to face conversations. Unless it's a really, really; really good friend of mine.

I'm pretty closed shut irl, but I tend to be more open here.

I'm too alert(paranoid) to trust anyone.

i don't open up unless I trust the person involved, which doesn't happen often. It's better to talk about things you have in common, rather than confessing your "weird" hobbies that others might not understand. It's easier to open up on the internet, since people are generally more open and won't bash you for what you are. Even if they do, it isn't such a big deal as IRL.

I may be the last person you wanna ask advice for in this matter. I am a very out going person, who would strike up a conversation with a stranger to an 85 year old man, and both of us would be enjoying ourselves.

All I can say is, think of the person who you wanna talk to. Think of what they would wanna talk about, like the stuff they like or hate. Don't worry about whether or not they like you, just think of that with just talking to them, they'll grow a better opinion of you.

well i wouln't tell anyone i like hentai upon first meeting them lol, but whats helped me is simply increasing my interests, i've been watching sports more, increasing my music taste, and just keepin up with the news to spark and carry on conversations. I work construction so it's kinda hard to talk to 40 year old blue collar dudes about anime and video games :P

i've had my share of "embarrassing" moments which have made me immune to other people's opinions/words/glares(-->which are in most cases retarded), so i think you should open up as much as you think the person/s you are talking to is/are worth knowing about you/how well they will react and how much they'll prejudice your preferences aka how open minded they are

I tell almost everything, but leave out religion, politics and all that other stuff out. Along with other things.

i have same trouble and i agreed with tanasinn. i have no problems to start talking with someone who has the same interest. but, the number of 'people with the same interests' in my real life is not, not enough for me. so i pushed myself to talk with my friends, in many kinds of interests.

tips:
-make a conversation with your old friends (you have childhood friends, right?)
-join a club you like, i join Comic Club in my school, it really works
-don't ever think about your social skills or some shit like that, it will just hesitate you
-smile, whatever they think about you

it's okay in being a freak, Bill Gates is an introvert, Albert Einstein... errr... you know... freak

"They say I'm great at first but then the magic fades."

Most leave when they know what I'm thinking. :/ I'm not exactly strange, I just don't hold much value in existence. I guess this frightens people, so I keep it to myself irl.

Oh, so I am not the only awkward person who cannot start the talking and make friends easily. Should i feel relieved now? I've been living in the countryside in the most terrible village around with six years old kids that threw each other in the book-shelves and crushed their cigarettes on others arms... Since my mother raised me to be nice to everyone and being clever at school I was bullied the four years of elementary school, which has left its marks on me. I am not only shy but even a bit paranoid, when I hear someone giggling I think for a second they are laughing at me etc etc. It is sooo hard to find people who share your interests, so I mosty talk about banalities. I am very relieved when I find a talkative person so I can just listen and respond :> I am very happy when someone asks me for advise and counts on my opinion.
I only talk much when I drank alcohol...^^

So, there are people who talk and people who listen, and if you are a listener, find yourself someone who talks, then drink alcohol with him/ her and see what happens. If you frightened the person, you say, that you drank too much it will be alright (hopefully) ~
A tolerant person will accept you, even if he/she doesn't agree with you.

I meet new people when I drink, but I can never up hold the relationship from then on so I don't think this really works.

OT: In all honesty, if you want to get accepted then anime isn't the first things you open up with. What I've learnt is that you don't have to be confident, but just act like it. Just stand up straight with a smile and it's harder for people to reject you (just a psychological thing).
As for conversation with someone new, just talk about the things they've probably talked about 100 times because face it, you don't know anything else. If you find something in common when you ask what they do, then it can go from there. After doing this, I've been alot better with random conversation encounters.
Honestly though, I don't know how to make new friends anymore :S (well, good friends, not just people you wave to every so often). I'm going to university next month and hopefully I should master 'how to be sociable' by the end of freshers week...but then again guild wars 2 is coming out and I'll finally have decent internet to watch all the anime i've missed out on.

thanks for all the helpful replies everyone.
means alot to me ^^