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Social skills are a set of learned abilities for interaction and communication with others. Any time you interact with another person, you're using social skills in some way. Strong social skills can help build and maintain successful relationships in personal and professional life. Note this is not a dating-advice or general life-advice sub. Please be sure to read the rules or the auto-sticky (on all posts) before posting.

6.4M subscribers2,086 posts / mo in Sep 20261,266 authors / mosince 2009

r/socialskills has 6.4M members (+1.4% over the last 12 months). It gets about 2,086 posts a month from 1,266 people. Top topics: Introvert Challenges at Work, College Loneliness and Workplace Dynamics.

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Size and growth

How r/socialskills has grown

r/socialskills

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+1.4%in 12 months · +0.3% in 3 months · +0.1% in 1 month
Oct 20266.4M
Growing6.4M subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/socialskills

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−30%vs Sep 2025 · −10% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20262.1k
QuieterPeaked at 4.9k in Sep 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/socialskills

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Introvert Challenges at Work0.8%
  2. College Loneliness0.6%
  3. Workplace Dynamics0.4%
  4. Making Friends0.4%
  5. Making Adult Friends0.3%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Reddit Help
  2. Befrienders Worldwide Support
  3. Crisis Text Line
  4. Waitlister
  5. Meetup

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research