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Give it time. New friends are made by spending time with strangers until they're not strangers anymore. If the new people are nice enough, and you get to hang out with them for a while, some of them will probably turn into friends. You're already on the right track by getting to know new people.
Thanks. I'm just getting discouraged because conversations fizzle out eventually, or things go well at first but then they stop texting back. It takes so long to get to know people and it feels like it usually goes nowhere even when I think they're really cool.
FWIW - as a person guilty of sometimes not texting back: most of the time it's not because I don't want to talk to that person, it's because I don't have the time and/or energy to write something worthwhile, make a mental note to text back something witty 'later', and you can probably guess where this is going.