Granted, but being in possession of social skills is no guarantee of it being easy to meet someone here, if gatherings are taken out of the picture.
I used to wonder why it was hard to meet someone here, too. Now, I just shrug and get on with my life. It's funny, though. You'd think a tickling forum would be a good place to meet people into tickling, but it doesn't really work that way.
OP;
As I've said, the odds are stacked against you. Once you take away the married women, involved women, lesbians, women who are too old/too young, aren't open to meeting anyone at all, women you don't find attractive/women who don't find you attractive, women who are only here to make money, and women who aren't reasonably able to travel to you (or you to them), you're left with a microscopic pool to choose from. Then, you have to hope by some miracle that you're compatible enough that she will eventually want to meet you as a friend/mate first, because few, if any, women simply meet up with random strangers on the Internet. It's daunting, to say the least.
That is, assuming you're not a total creeper. Which, as has been pointed out, is a possibility.