Lit up by a monitor

[Nice]

What happens?
Do we get asocial and slowly cry ourselves to sleep everynight until depression kills us...?
Do we become resistant, and change life cyclus, only to stay up at night?
What happens?

I myself am sitting most of the time by the computer. Usually I come home from school, then do my homework and ends the day by playing videogames or level editing in Amnesia the Dark Descent.
At this time I'm also Skyping with the friends I have.

It should be said that I'm not the most social person in school. I usually keep my own business, but I'm not afraid of being confronted, talking to classmates that I know of or say something in class.
I am shy when it comes to strangers though. It's hard to start a friendship to someone when being shy. Right now I have one or two guys that I look at as my actual friends.
My only problem is probably my social life.

So what are you thoughts on this?
Any tips?
Tips like, "Just go out and talk to some strangers!", are pretty hard to follow.

I hope all of you are better than me

staying alone infront of the computer all the time does slowly destroy your social skills and you may slowly lose the grip of reality. As silly as it sounds, that does slowly and eventually happen.

Also, going outside gives you plenty of different experiences, teaches you some life lessons and you get a different look on people and world.

Now as for your personal description, you dont look and sound like someone that really has any extreme issues or stuff so dont worry too much about it.

As for me, i used to be REALLY shy of meeting and talking with people back when i was younger (somewhere around puberty), i didn't hang out much with anyone except with my school mates in school. Then i remember that one of the guys in school which i went along with pretty good had the idea that we should hang out more and outside of school aswell. So i decided to spend a lil' less time playing games and working out alone at home and give it a shot. After the first time of hanging out with my school mates (just the ones i get along with good) i realized how much fun it is, so we started going out everyday in the evening, play some basketball together or go for a pizza. Slowly we started meeting up new people outside and our group grew bigger and bigger, and after meeting new people like that and observing how my friends accepted them into the group i started to learn from them to be a bit more confident and that there's lots of cool people outside, you just gotta meet them. That's probably the main highlight of it

That random guy you walked by, could just aswell be your best friend if you gave it a shot and tried talking to him a bit, first about general stuff then go a bit deeper, if yknow what i mean. For example, i hang out now with people that i'd never thought i would..kinda like "Oh wait, he's not so bad as i thought!"

But just so we're clear i'm not the guy that is friend of everyone or talks to everyone lol, i'm VERY far from that and even i have some issues right now with stuff like this (just not as much as i did before). For example, i'm really bad with talking to girls because usually our interests just dont match up and i cant find the subject to discuss about. So if there's a girl that i can chat with daily that probably means i'm really liking her and find her awesome lol.

anyway i have lots of issues like this in which i could go in great depth here and write a dozens of huge wall of texts about it but my story is not the point in this thread

So anyways just in short. Give it a shot, go out with the people you like more often, go for a drink or something and chat about stuff, as you will your social skills will slowly rise higher and you'll be more open to people