How do you become more social?

I found this question on Yahoo answers.
This queustion is impressed me!
"How do you become more social?"
And Here are some answers:

*go out and meet new people, go to church, to the mall ,bowling, go see a movie.
*Just put your self out there and be positive and start striking up conversations with people.
*you just go out and do stuff that puts you around people.

if your nature is not social though, you won't feel comfortable, and you can't change that.
*Try getting a job that forces u to come out of yourself. I worked as a waitress for years and I went from being soooo shy I couldnt get a word out, to being able to walk up to anyone and talk no problem.
It definitely takes practice!
*join more group activities and also work on starting your own, go out to bars and pubs and parties whenever asked and always try arrange your own and invite everyone you can.

Remember birthdays, christmas cards, occassion days like anniversaries for people by a card or even a friendly gesture such as a drink or saying something from them.

Go to festivals, community activities and protests.

Do voluntary work and offer to help friends with odd jobs and things.

And finally, ask people if you can join them: ask if you can visit them, if they want to arrange trips away as a group say to the beach or to visit a town or a discount shopping mall (biecester in the UK for eg) or visit a landmark that you have never seen or an exhibition you havent seen and want some company for. If you dont ask you dont get, no one will mind read your thoughts, you have to ask them.

Question everytime you are at home alone, where else could you be, is there anything else with other people you can be doing?