I’d like to know where I can go to meet awesome people/ make awesome friends. Occasionally, Yvain will brag about how awesome his social group in the Bay Area was. See here (do read it—its a very cool piece) and I’d like to also have an awesome social circle. As far as I can tell this is a two part problem. The first part is having the requisite social skills to turn strangers into acquaintances and then turn acquaintances into friends. The second part is knowing where to go to find people.
I think that the first part is a solved problem, if you want to learn how to socialize then practice. Which is not to say that it is easy, but its doable. I’ve heard the suggestion of going to a night club to practice talking to strangers. This is good since people are there to socialize, and I’m sure I could meet all sort of interesting people at one, but I’d like other ideas.
I’d like to know where to go to meet people who I would be likely to get along with. Does anyone have ideas? My list so far
1: Moving to the Bay Area - impractical.
2: Starting a LW meetup—good idea, but it seems like it takes a fair bit of effort.
3: Reaching out into one’s extended social circle eg. having a party with your friends and their friends—Probably the most common way people meet new people.
How about you simply write where you live, and tell other LWers in the same area to contact you? It may or may not work, but the effort needed is extremely low. (You can also put that information in LW settings.)
Or write this: “I am interested in meeting LW readers in [insert place], so if you live near and would like to meet and talk, send me a private message”.
I’d like to know where I can go to meet awesome people/ make awesome friends. Occasionally, Yvain will brag about how awesome his social group in the Bay Area was. See here (do read it—its a very cool piece) and I’d like to also have an awesome social circle. As far as I can tell this is a two part problem. The first part is having the requisite social skills to turn strangers into acquaintances and then turn acquaintances into friends. The second part is knowing where to go to find people.
I think that the first part is a solved problem, if you want to learn how to socialize then practice. Which is not to say that it is easy, but its doable. I’ve heard the suggestion of going to a night club to practice talking to strangers. This is good since people are there to socialize, and I’m sure I could meet all sort of interesting people at one, but I’d like other ideas.
I’d like to know where to go to meet people who I would be likely to get along with. Does anyone have ideas? My list so far
1: Moving to the Bay Area - impractical.
2: Starting a LW meetup—good idea, but it seems like it takes a fair bit of effort.
3: Reaching out into one’s extended social circle eg. having a party with your friends and their friends—Probably the most common way people meet new people.
4: Using meetup.com : Not a bad idea
How about you simply write where you live, and tell other LWers in the same area to contact you? It may or may not work, but the effort needed is extremely low. (You can also put that information in LW settings.)
Or write this: “I am interested in meeting LW readers in [insert place], so if you live near and would like to meet and talk, send me a private message”.