IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE MORE STRICTLY-PERSONAL PHONE CALLS IN YOUR LEISURETIME, HAVE YOU TRIED:

---Telling the new people you meet that you yourself are, of course (if true), single and very unattached, and that you have plenty of time available in your leisuretime for getting together with friendly new acquaintances and friends in your city or town?

---Making comments and posing polite questions to friendly acquaintances and friendly coworkers that reveal a sincere interest in them and their quality of life as human beings, which you can convey through original-sounding or creative-sounding or empathetic-sounding comments and questions that you offer them?

---Purchasing a cell phone and being seen using that cell phone in public, which will convey the message to others that you are someone in touch with the "modern world" whom they can contact anytime of the day or night if they ever have a need for strictly-personal advice from you?

---Giving out your cell phone number to the friendly acquaintances you meet who, when you do a confidential background check on their full legal name using your own online background-checking service, each pass that preliminary background check?

--Deliberately and consciously slowing down your own rate of speech when you have in-person conversations or telephone conversations with others, which will reassure them that you are, of course, capable of expressing a platonicly polite and calm intimacy with them?

--Striving to yourself project tranquility and calmness in your everyday interactions with others, which will reassure them that you are a pleasant person to associate with?

--Talking with friends or friendly acquaintances of yours who DO receive lots of strictly-personal phone calls from others, in order to learn what accounts for their own social success in that way?

--Striving to convey the message to the people you interact with that you are a good listener?

---Identifying your strongest and most solid areas of agreement or compatibility with other acquaintances of yours, such as your and their own great devotion to crime deterrence; your and their own great devotion to promoting honorable and law-abiding forms of creative entrepreneurialism; your and their own great devotion to the anti-marijuana community, so much so that each of you would welcome a new book of facts and anecdotes exclusively aimed at helping members of the anti-marijuana community to promote their noble cause; or your and their own devotion to healthful living and the great medical benefits to each adult human being from their getting eight consecutive and uninterrupted hours per night of revitalizing, undisturbed, unharassed, unmolested sleep, for instance.

---Choosing to drop the word "hermit" or "loner" or "anti-social" or "misanthrope" or "monk" from statements you make about yourself to others, since you have wisely concluded that referring to yourself as a "hermit" or "loner" or "misanthrope" or "monk" could discourage prospective new friendly acquaintances from giving you a personal phone call?

---Letting as many people as possible know that you yourself are dependably civil and law-abiding and do not have any criminal-conviction record, which will be very reassuring to prospective new acquaintances who might have otherwise misinterpreted your own emotional intensity as "the intensity of a stalker type" or "the intensity of a serial rapist" or "the intensity of a serial killer"?

--Letting others know that you yourself have had some creative achievements in your life, which will increase your appeal as a prospective new friend or new friendly acquaintance for them since individuals who are creatively accomplished and polite, and who are perceived as "winners" in that way, are more likely to be sought after by new acquaintances?

--Joining a reputable, law-abiding, civic group or religious group in your city or town or county?

---Joining a hobby club, such as a fragrant-plants indoor-gardening club or a public-speaking club, that appeals to you?

---Joining a reputable athletic club focused on the lifelong sport of yours, such as tennis or racquetball, in which you are the strongest and most confident?

---Giving out your home phone number to individuals whom you have a good rapport with in your everyday life?

---Expressing a kind and friendly and generously empathetic interest in the friendly acquaintances whom you meet in your everyday life?

---Demonstrating to others your ability to be politely empathetic and a good listener for adult persons significantly younger than yourself in age, or, for that matter, for persons older than yourself in age?

---Changing the tone and message of your voice-mail greeting on your phone line to give that greeting a friendlier tone that welcomes messages from friendly new acquaintances?

---Smiling more often in your everyday interactions with others, which conveys the implicit message that you are friendly and enjoy associating with them?

---Focusing on a philanthropic cause you feel strongly about, such as the need for more sidewalks in your city or the need for orthopedicly-designed and safer sidewalks in your city, and then publicly promoting that cause through a friendly blog you write or a speech before your town's City Council?

---Praising others in a sincere and generous manner?

---Giving others plenty of body space in your everyday interactions with them, which will reassure them that you yourself will never attempt to physically force yourself upon them and you, of course, have very high platonic-relationships aptitude toward them?

---Communicating to others what your own favorite hobbies and pastimes are, whether that be tennis, racquetball, hiking, philanthropy, low-in-saturated-fats-cuisines, befriending younger generations through an official or unofficial "Big Brother" or "Big Sister" program, having tea and conversation with friends or friendly acquaintances, or watching movies that you believe to have a sublimely philanthropic beauty to them?

---Putting a nice welcome mat in front of your residence?

---Hosting a "get-to-know-you-better" party inside your home to which you might invite numerous friendly acquaintances and friends to attend?

---Looking up former schoolmates of yours from high school whom you admired?

---Offering to treat individuals you admire to have lunch with you inside a local restaurant or cafe?