The best way to get to know people is do join with them in some shared project: volunteer work, sports, even classes or study groups can do the job. They may or may not turn out to be people you want to hang with, but how will you know that if you don't get to know 'em first?
The cool thing about meeting lots of people in shared activities, even if you don't get close, is that after a while you start running into people you know in more and more places. Which gives you an automatic social entrez to whatever they're involved in and the people they're hanging with. In other words, the more new people you get to know, the easier it gets to know more new people.
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