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Meetup wants us to MEETUP!!

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Meetup.com has recently been promoting and encouraging us (internet junkies, techies, twitter addicts, and of the likes) to go out and see the sun. This brings us to an interesting question: Have people actually stopped meeting real people and socializing or has the social media landscape increased our social lives considerably. I guess the answer would vary from person to person and experience to experience. But generally, I have to admit that online interactions can get people carried away. I have been covering how virtual events are suddenly on the rise, but I had no idea its something for us to stop and seriously think about. Will our future generations know of no other means of communication rather than micro-blogging, text chatting virtual meetings? Is that the direction we are taking our kids future lives towards? OR are real events still the core of human needs and interactions?

Lifehacker has a good post on this here.

Simon U Ford (SUF.EDBD)

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  • Interesting post. I have stumbled this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.
  • Real Events are the key - at least here - in far away Perth, Western Australia. We do lots of face to face networking with our online contacts for a wide variety of reasons. Business, social, environmental. We network through Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Ning, Plaxo and others - and face to face is the best. We also list events on a range of sites, to get the widest possible audience.
  • bobbicknell
    Meetup is a great site and allowed me to meet people of similar interest in the Orlando area when I moved here. Being on the computer all the time you can burn out and definitely need the interaction. Even with tech changes and micro blogging I feel it is to be used as a tool and physical touch or interaction and meeting with others is still a key for social interaction and building a business.

    If you stay a wizard of oz it will catch up to you as people are curious who is behind that blog even though the right blog exposes some of who you are to interact with audience.
  • Simon…… I returned to this post to leave a comment, as since doing your course where you pushed us, sometimes introverted "online junkies" to get engaged with our audience in everything from commenting on bogs and videos, making our own videos to introduce ourselves to the online world, to starting our own Radio Broadcasts!! I have now joined several "Meet’ups” in Sydney.
    My experience to date has been fantastic! We usually have a presentation by one of the members or a guest and then socialize with people who understand what we are talking about and are actually engaged and interested. My own personal social network doesn’t GET IT and so it is really good to physically interact with people who do. They take place in a private bar at a city pub... we usually then go down to the main area, have a meal together in the bistro and network. I highly recommend getting out from behind that keyboard once a week and making local connections with other people in the online world .these connections could become extremely valuable moving forward
  • That's a very interesting question I've already made to myself. One stronger point about 'virtual' connections is that the people are more real than in real life as so many psychosocial studies have revealed.
    I think that we would better take a balanced social connection between virtual/real friends and 'physical' friends, family.
    For sure that's is an individual decision and, at least, there will be social contact with colleagues during job period. I cannot imagine a world without jobs as industries and other economy sectors that require physical presence. Everybody working at home would not be a Brave New World with some kind of fun, comfort and happiness.
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