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07-11-2018, 10:29 PM | #1 |
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Meetup.com: Weird or Cool?
I've been trying to branch out and meet more people in the last few months. Having gone to a few Meetup groups, its been quite the mixed bag. Some cool folks, but quite a few odd people(beyond what I would have though)
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07-12-2018, 02:49 PM | #2 |
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Just checked it out...I'm firmly in the campground of it being weird.
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We should invade it with a bunch of pics of dolls as our photos!!
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My wife and I used to go the the Boston Dachshund MeetUp when we lived back there. It was great. 20 to 30 wiener dogs all running around the Boston Commons. There were some odd folks there but really just a random slice of life. Gather up 30 people and there will always be an oddball or two in the mix. We made some great friends that we still talk to, now 10 years later.
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I recently moved to a new area and wanted to find people to play volleyball with. Found a group of 50+ that meets up every Saturday in Huntington. Great group of people. Sure, there will be a wide range of people with different backgrounds and social skills but that's life. |
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07-12-2018, 06:35 PM | #12 |
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Just focus on the interests that you like. Meetups are always a mixed bag.
I met a few organizers and went to a few before. As long as the group is focused on something - i.e. going hiking, playing sports, even meet ups for sports car drives, you tend to get a better result as everyone will be interested in the activity and you will have something in common to talk about. General meetups like going to happy hour drinks will have a very wide variety of random people.
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Making friends after college isn't easy. It's mainly coworkers your age and you branch out from there. If you move to a new city it's even harder.
I'd figure a lot of these meet ups would have odd characters. But hey, all it takes is meeting 2-3 people you get along with and meeting their friends. Grow your circle from there. |
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07-12-2018, 07:03 PM | #14 |
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Is there a Meetup group for serial killers?
Oh wait, that would be ALL OF THEM. |
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There are all sorts of groups and causes on there. In some ways it works. I recommended it to a patient who said she was struggling to find other people who enjoyed hiking. She found a group of ramblers and said it was good. So I recommended it to another patient back in the day and his experience was not as good. He said the people were a bit weird in the spiritual wellbeing group. I guess it can work but the moral of the story is that everyone is someone else's weirdo.
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i tell my wife of quite a few years that if she ever wants to get rid of me, she should hire a hit man instead of divorcing me. I want no part of the tinder, match.com, backpage, or dating in this "woke" day and age.
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