i want to be more social & outgoing?

Look, coming from someone who is not social or outgoing either, let me just say that you can’t "Be" social or outgoing, you can’t be someone you’re not.

You say you have "friends", right? are these close friends or are these people you never talk to outside of school? Maybe you should consider getting closer to these people, you don’t need a whole flock of people to hang out with, only a close few, although knowing how these things go…

They’ll probably be more distant from you since they know more people now, and you seem to be shy, so that instantly turns people off, I am about to give you terrible ideas, but they work depending on the people you’re surrounded by:

- find a way to some anti-depressants. HARD to do, my way was, I was scared of large groups of people and had to go to the ER because I was stressed out, I managed to talk to a hospital psychologist and was prescribed "happy pills" that made my Junior year.

- Drink an energy drink before school. It’s a stimulant so it should boost your mood and attitude. Worked freshman and sophomore year.

Talk to the people in your classes about where they want to go to college, interests, why they are taking the class, school, anything you find interesting. What would you talk to your friends about that you can talk to the people in your class about. (Making fun of the teacher is pretty easy subject)

Alright dude…when you approach a person ask them if they play WoW and if they do your good for like a good couple of weeks.

Watch tv or movies and see how the characters interact with each other. Watch how your family, church members, people around town interact with each other. Practice, it is all about practice. Practice with family or friends, like if you went to a dance and asked someone to dance, practice what would happen if they said yes, practice what would happen if they said no. We all fear rejection, we all are afraid of saying something stupid, but if that happens, just laugh it off and move on. Everyone who reads aloud in church goofs a word, even the Pastor, we all know how that feels, but you laugh and keep moving forward. It is like the quote….”Be who you are and say what you feel ‘cause people who mind don’t matter, and people who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss. Go to polls and surveys and answer questions so you get good at answering random questions. Write down questions that are fun and interesting to you. Y/A has an entertainment section with categories like jokes and riddles and polls and surveys. It is always good to have a good joke, so copy them down so you don’t forget the punch line. Polls and surveys has a lot of good questions and they change all the time, so it is a good source for questions to ask when the conversations stall.
Where’s the last place you would want to be seen?
What scares you the most?
Scariest/weirdest dream you ever had?
If you could reverse time, what would you do differently?
What’s going through your mind right now?
Tell me something fun about yourself?
What’s the best dream you ever had?
Do you ever get a song stuck in your head? What song?
How has the recession affected you, your family?
Tell me about a personal experience in your life?
How many countries have you been to? What was your favorite one?
When have you felt the most lost?
What is the most expensive/strangest thing you ever bought?
Where’s the strangest place you ever fell asleep?
What is the longest amount of time you ever stayed awake, and for what reason?
Have you ever done anything on a dare?
Have you ever walked into the wrong public restroom?
If you could teach the world to sing, what song would you choose?
If you were born the opposite sex, what would you have been named?
What gift do you wish you had been born with?
What’s an assumption people make about you, that couldn’t be more wrong?
What’s the one thing you would like to do that would shock your friends and family?
If you could be any character in a movie, who would you be?
What has disappointed you most in life?
If it wasn’t for modern medical intervention, would you still be alive today?
What is something you misplaced and never found?
What types of questions do you think people from different decades/eras would have asked if they had Yahoo Answers back then?