Here is $50 to talk to me to see if w'ere friends

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it's one thing to pay for the expenses

it's another thing to hire a friend

The best advice I can give you is to not see loneliness as such a big deal. I found that things got better for me when I stopped trying to make friends and just did the things I wanted to do on my own. It's important to be comfortable in your own company.

I don't really have friends as such. I have my partner (who has bipolar) and her circle of friends that I occasionally talk to. That's enough for me; I don't need a mobile phone full of contacts.

Offering money for friendship is definitely a bad idea. In the words of Oprah Winfrey: "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. What you need is someone who will ride with you on the bus when the limo breaks down".

^you’ve got a partner and not everyone can be “JD to his Turk” (i.e. his own best friend).

bitter geek

my entire "life", i have only worked minimum wage jobs. and got fired.

panhandling has not reaped/produced anywhere near the wage you offer.

furthermore, got few or no job skills.

$$ running out.

where and when do we meet?

Sounds good to me. I'm not poor by any means but my greed can never be abated.
It would serve as a means to supplement my salary. Unfortunately for us both I live on the other side of the world from you.

50 bucks an hour sounds like a bit too much for a paid friend. where i worked, minimum wage was only 12.25/hour, as of last year.

if you have to pay, offer less $$.

or you could post ads, where you invite someone to go to events. and you pay the $$.

your idea has inherent problems. however, your idea might be better than not having friends

Interesting thread.

At first glance I thought "Okay, this is weird.." buuut the more I think about it, it really isn't that weird.

People pay for dates/first dates all the time. Others pay for prostitutes. Others yet pay for legitimate escorts/paid dates (not sex) to attend work/social events in order to impress those around them with the person they're seen with. It's really not that weird to offer money in exchange for someone's time in a social capacity.

I think you'd be able to make a post on your local craigslist strictly platonic friends section and see if anyone's interested in meeting up to chat, share a meal, see some form of entertainment etc. You might just get a response for free. Further to that, you'd more than likely get responses if you offered to pay for the evening (food/drink/entertainment) & definitely would get responses if you offered to pay someone for their time. Chances are there are a lot of prostitute types in every city browsing craigslist ads. You could exchange a few emails and hire one for a reasonable rate to spend some social time together. Hell, you could specifically make an ad looking for a "college student needing help" sort of thing, which are always about prostitution, and flat out say "this ad is not for sex. I don't get out much & simply want to enjoy a meal and conversation together, that's it." and then whether they are actually paying for tuition or going to spend that money with their drug dealer, who cares? At least you got some social interaction out of the deal And the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing that you saved that soul from having to sell their body that evening. Could be a win-win social experiment worth exploring.

Some of us get married for money

Babysitter, dominatrix, counselors all get hired

Maybe you could use a counselor

It reminds me of Lucy on "Peanuts". Put up a sign that offers counseling services for five cents

This idea does not sound the slightest bit weird