If you can conquer Ascension, Sky's Rim is a beautiful great place to make friends and have a nice convo. [If you ignore the glitterdogs and sparklelions ....unless you are for those type of people in the community.] Some of the people who speak on General are not great influences and can cause fights sometime, so I usually avoid friends there. Joining a roleplay is a great way to go, and if you want to get GOOD friends, a mapped roleplay is great, plus you can find some quite skilled roleplays there, usually C:!
Also, if none of those places are going to help you, I think it would be fun to meet ingame and see if I would like to consider you as a "friend". Some nice convo would be great!