vwog02, welcome to the forum.
Verbosity and loquacity do not a friendship make, but it can help introduce yourself. In my experience friendships are not made by intent. At least trying to go out and make a friend has never worked for me before. For me a friendship is usually something that happens along the way, something that forms while I am doing things and talking to people.
Take, for example, my best friend. He's not very socially adept, and at first conversation you might think he doesn't have much on the ball, but if you talk to him for a while you realize he's actually really smart, and somewhat witty. Know why he's my best friend? Because we're both nerds and I understand what he says. He's a World of Warcraft player, and while I have never played that game I HAVE been around the internet enough to know what a raid is, what a guild is, and what he is talking about when he says he drew aggro to get the area boss off the rogue's case. So he can talk to me about what he did a couple of days ago in that game and I actually comprehend it.
Case in point: Here's a conversation we had last Wednesday. To explain the jokes, an RNG is an Random Number Generator, which many video games use at the start of a new game to randomly generate player's starting equipment, treasure chest placement and contents throughout the game world, or even the makeup of the game world itself. A "seed" is a semi-random starting point that determines events that come after it.
I have a habit of sitting in a different part of the church every service, because I find I get too comfortable if I sit in the same pew every time. He sauntered over and said, "Hey brother, do you have an RNG for where you sit every service?" I replied, "No, I have a seed determining it - I sit in one of the four rows every service, but in four services I sit in each of the four rows, in some order, at some point." We both found this very amusing, but "normal" people wouldn't know what in the world we were talking about.
This friendship is just something that happened along the way. I didn't set out to make a friend. I just listened to somebody talking and I happened to have the background knowledge to understand him.
My best shot for advice is to get out and DO stuff. Live your life and talk to people you meet along the way. Some good friendships will happen, and they will be much better than any friendships you tried to go out and make.
