Personally expanding social boundaries

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Throughout my entire life I have been rather shy. I realize that it is important on many levels to have social interaction and yet no matter how many times I tell myself this, I do nothing. Yes, I have a small circle of friends, but just talking and socializing with other people in general just doesn't come to me. Even on social networking sites I tend to not have many friends or much activity. I've read that doing little things, (can't think of any off the top of my head), I can slowly open up more to people. Even this, however, I find difficult to do. In an attempt to overcome this, I'm trying to open on mylot, being a much lesser known site and with a very low chance of being seen by someone I know. Really I just would like to try and meet people and try to make friends. I feel weird having opened up this much already, so I'll wait to (hopefully) read some responses. Thanks to all that give some input.