How do you find a common interest group?

Finding a common interest group is not something that easily comes around; it involves putting yourself out there and getting a chance to experience all that that group has to offer. These methods should hopefully help you find a interest group and stick with one you like

• Patience
• Open-mindedness
• Getting involved
• Make new friends/acquaintances  
• Use online platforms

Patience

Patience is key if you want to find a common interest group. Patience will help you better understand situations and make overall better relationships with others. Most people nowadays want to speed things up and try to find the perfect group in the next five minutes.

With patience it gives you time to understand the people involved and the environment and you can see if you truly like this specific group.Also patience is needed to just find the right group.

Sometimes the group that intrigues you is not on your radar and that means waiting for that opportunity to get involved.

Open-Mindness

This is pretty self explanatory in that just go into whatever interests you with an open mind and hear what people have to say. When you first join a group it's best to just listen to others and see where the group stands.

It's always better to see how people react and think to certain situations rather than trying to shove your thoughts and ideas on others. This would probably leave a sour taste in the mouths of the group and may result in some disconnect with the group.

So keeping an open mind might reveal certain things from a group that you may or may not like which might steer you away from the group or towards a group.

Getting Involved

This method is as simple as that. If the group that you're interested in has any kind of meeting group events go to them. At first try going to any events that work best for you, try not to overextend yourself in order to make others feel like you care.

This might increase your image in the group but this will quickly wear you out and make you want to quit. So contribute in whatever way you can. Most people in the group would appreciate it and you also get a taste of what goes on in the group events or meetings. 

**Make new friends/acquaintances **

Making new friends /acquaintances can be very daunting at first and everyone feels the same way. The best advice to give is that since you're around a group of people that align with your interest it should be relatively easy to spark up a conversation with any of them.

The biggest thing that holds people back from really getting into a group is the fear of talking to possible complete strangers and that can seem intimidating.

Honestly, though, as long as you are interested in a certain group and have at least a small passion for what the group does, it can be a very exciting experience to have. Just know that everyone in that group had the same feelings as you and they go over the fear and most people are willing to help you get over that fear.

Use Online Platforms

This revolves around using all kinds of social media apps in order to combine all others methods of looking for groups and getting involved.

Using social media makes every group have a big exposure so for people like us finding new groups that interest has never been easier which in turn makes being part of a group more accessible.

**Conclusion **

So in conclusion these methods will hopefully help you find a group that you're interested in. From using social media apps to find events to get yourself involved to talking to new people and making new friends.

These methods as well as being patient and open-minded will help you towards your goal of finding that group that you would consider as a second family.