I am a 39 yo female and I find it just seems to get more and more difficult to make friends as you get older. When I was younger I had a nice circle of people that I would hang out with and have game nights with and such. But it is just not so easy anymore. Not that it ever was all that easy for me. Due to a disability I have been unable to work for years, except for some part time/temporary jobs. This I feel has always caused a major road block for me in this area. I am also not married and have no kids which further sets me apart from others my age as well.
I was just wondering if others have found it difficult to make new friends as well as they got older and if so why do you think that is?
I also think adults can be so boring too...LOL

Yes. In kindergarten it was like "HI, can I play" and blam, you had a new friend. by your teens, saying hi is "uncool."

Of course! I am especially worried about what I'll do when I leave school. School gives me the opportunity to be around so many nice people. Even though I am shy and don't talk much, I crave the feeling of having people around me. After I am done with school, I'll probably spend the rest of my life in a small, grey and dark office, writing computer code. Then, when I retire, I'll spend my dying years in a damp, dingy, and decrepit flat in an old apartment block in a bad part of town. It will be at least 12 years before people realize I am dead and find my body. This is how I intend to get famous, kids all around the country will be like "omg wow did u hear about that guy who was dead in his room for 12 years!! grooosss!!".

I dunno. Maybe it depends on what sort of person you are.

I'm 21, but I've found I way prefer people in their late 20s or even 40s are better friends for me than people my age.

I don't like parties or bars or anything like that, though. Most young people are definitely rowdier than I am. Generally speaking, I'm pretty mellow.

I find it easier making friends as a I get older because I'm more comfortable with who I am, and more confident of who I am to others.

I really don't know. At a younger age you have school and various things that keeps you around people rather then the isolated office and empty flat that Caesium foresees. As people get older they generally start their own family and may have less time for those outside the family. That would seem to make it easier for a single person to grow more isolated as they age. Yet as Red_Apple mentioned, some people seem to adapt with age. Some people just get better at integrating into the world around them.

I do, and making friends has never come easy for me.

Agreed.

The thing is as true as that is I have found that with age you get confidence and saying Hi is no longer a big problem or uncool.

The problem is when your at school you have a mass of ppl you can be friends with all of similar age. when you get older this just no longer happens. So even though you do have moor confidence there is not as many ppl that you would wont as a friend. Finding ppl you have stuff in common with is moor of a problem.

And the thing with being the first person to say hi and it being uncool. well-its only as uncool as you make it. Hopefully you learn that sooner rather then later.

I can not imagine that you well end up in a damp, dingy, and decrepit flat in an old apartment block in a bad part of town. Computer programmers get paid fairly well you know Plus the beast way to save is to have no social life. I don't get a lot to live on but I do not have a problem with money as its easy to save when you have no one to go out and do stuff with. ppl say I am good with money. Not that true. OK I am but I would not have such nice things if I had moor friends. Get me. its the ppl that spend all there money on drink and constantly going out that end up in placers like that. Not ppl that constantly work cos they have nothing els to do.

You mean as I slowly become a more twisted, evil, jaded, burned out shell of a thing as the years slowly and torturously pass?

No, I haven't noticed any problems.