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Originally Posted by bmah

Have you practised looking for visual cues in a conversation? It's important to decipher people's facial expressions and hand movements to help get a sense of how to go about characterizing your conversation. It's also important for you to make appropriate visual cues for the other person; for instance, if it's casual and friendly, smile a bit.

There's of course more to it than visual cues, but that'll help at least.

This. I've somehow gotten really good at reading people within the first 15 seconds of talking and changing myself to most suit the person I'm talking to. I don't know of anyone in real life that legitimately doesn't like me. On the internet it's a completely different story cuz fuck you people. jkily

Just try to adapt to your surroundings. The better you are at that, the more friends you will make (because you're better socially with the people you talk to.)