Making / maintaining friendships

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This topic seems to be coming up quite a bit in other threads so I wondered if we could perhaps share some pearls of wisdom about making and maintaining friendships.

For those who have lots of friends, how did you meet your friends? Are they people you have known forever, or people you met recently? How much work does it take to maintain those friendships?

For those who have just a handful of friends.... is this because you find it hard to make friends with new people, do you find it hard to connect with people?

For those with no/few friends..... what can you do to make new friendships?

I'll share my experiences in a bit, but I just wanted to get the thread going.....