What do nerdy people do?

[Aetera]

Get a nerdy t-shirt of whatever you're interested in. Anyone that comments on it is an instant potential friend that you know you have something in common with. It works really well.

 

[MMSouthpawVIII]

I've never been outgoing so I've always just found one or two people that i sat close to in my classes and tried to find a common interest. Not much advice, sorry.

although because of this thread I decided to check out my school's groups and I guess there is one called "Bacon Tuesdays" with the sole purpose of getting together on Tuesdays to eat bacon.

 

[goldenjester]

So...this is kind of awkward.

Spoiler: Skip this part if you don't want a preface/context

I'll just say that I'm a 20 year old guy who never had much of a childhood or any kind of meaningful social interaction due to reasons mostly outside of my control. Not having any real life friends to hang out with never really bothered me until a short while after high school ended, at which point it started to get a bit lonely being alone all the time. Especially since college students don't interact much...at least not like they did in primary school.

Anyway, I signed up on a few dating sites (More looking for friends than actual dates- honest) but that didn't pan out. I started to volunteer at the library near my house to try and meet people who might share an interest of mine (reading) but...it's mostly only really old people who visit the library, and there isn't much talking that takes place which makes it difficult to get to 'know' people. So, I started doing things like signing up for Chantango and tried to find people that lived within a few miles of me to talk to and maybe start a friendship, but the 37~ people who were near me apparently didn't use the service anymore since I stalked them like a creeper for a few weeks, without anyone signing on at all...

Aaaaanyway, I saw that there was a week where the library was holding a few events for teenagers and so I went there on Monday to check it out, but teenagers in this case ended up being a handful of kids aged 8-13... I'm 6'6", 20, and at the time I had a sizable beard. Basically I was the creepy old guy and I tried to kind of befriend a few of them, but I was mostly avoided...not that I can blame them, especially because my social skills are still pretty 'eh'. In any case, it just kind of got depressing after a while and I left. Which leads me to ask this question:

What do the 'geeks' of my age (20) do? I tried asking without the 'geek' modifier and just came up with 'party/club/whatever', but I'm really not into that sort of thing. At all. Especially because I'm deathly allergic to alcohol.

Try going to you FLGS (Friendly Local Game Store). Usually you'll find some pretty cool people there, and while most of them may be primarily interested in CCGs, Tabletop RPGs, and Skirmish Games, but usually there is significant gaming crossover. Just try to go on a Magic: The Gathering or Warmachine night (avoid Yu-Gi-Oh day, if possible).

If you don't have a FLGS, I'm truly sorry.