Putting yourself out there: A guide for making friends in college in the digital age

1 of 2 Students walk between classes Feb. 8, 2019, on the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie.  Cowboy Joe gestures to the crowd at the game against Idaho at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie on Sept. 14, 2019. Members of younger generations can be more connected through technology than they are to one another. In many ways, it’s a shame; young people can’t help the time period in which we were born or the advances that have been made over our lifetime. Love it or hate it, this digital age is increasingly coming to define us, and nowhere is this more evident than the first year of college.For those of us just starting out, it’s the first time we’ve had to intentionally set out to make friends since we’ve joined Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter. We were still relatively new to these platforms when we were making friends in high school, and especially middle school, but once you get to college, you realize how much harder it is to put yourself out there after spending four years with the same friends and consumed in the realm of social media.Luckily, there are ways to still break out of this media bubble…
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