Meet Ups

Have any of you ever attended a MeetUp? I’m a big believer in social networking as a positive way to create instant community, so I try to attend them a few times a year at least. I like the democratic nature of these things: loosely organized, open to anyone, very reliant on people’s flexibility and good will. Sometimes the organizer is a dingbat and fails to make the group easy (or possible) to find. Sometimes you wind up on a sort of blind date with one other person who shows, even though eight people said they’d be there. Sometimes it’s a great, rowdy time. Sometimes it’s a great, rowdy time that turns into a depressing display of alcoholism and loneliness and you have to back out the door and make a run for it. Sometimes the movie/music/dancing/event is awesome, sometimes it’s dull or pretentious, and […]