Marty
Anonymous
It took singles a couple years to figure it out, but there are plenty of singles & dating groups on Meetup.com now.
The best part is... no fakes to deal with!!!!! It's nothing like OLD, where a guy can "stuff" a site with stolen female photos and made-up profiles. It's a dating troll's worst nightmare.
Now the bad news... most of the singles & dating groups on Meetup.com are alcohol-centered, so if you don't drink then you're pretty much s*** out of luck. (For whatever reason, we seem to think nondrinkers don't get lonesome.)
But wait, there's more good news than bad... if you don't like any of the groups they have on Meetup.com already, you can start one for under 100 bucks, or if you're lucky you can take over one if the previous organizer is tired of running it... then you can customize the group.
On 12-4-2011, I went to a potluck for a singles group named Relationship Minded Singles, which was started on Meetup barely a month earlier by a guy named Jason who was tired of the bar scene. Since he started the group, it now has about 200 members... and over 40 showed up at the potluck. There was not a drop of alcohol to be found, so that BS that you can't have singles without alcohol is a crock. Everyone there was really cool, not rude or uptight like with the nightclub groups. Jason knows this, and that's why his group is different. Alcohol-centered singles groups come a dime a dozen on Meetup.com.
OTOH up until then I'd been going to a local singles meetup group which meets in nightclubs... and at the last meeting, the hostess only got 6 guests. Hopefully she will take the hint.
And then there's a group named Synergy that I went to 2 years ago... what a mess that one was. Turns out it was almost entirely made up of 50-60 yo women and a handful of men, and they all drink.
So... I don't think I'm making stuff up by saying that I think OLD's days are numbered. As more guys like Jason glom on to starting dating groups on Meetup.com, those groups will do to OLD what OLD did to outfits like Great Expectorations.
Ha ha, all those poor trolls will have nowhere to post their fake profiles. It breaks the heart... *sigh*
The best part is... no fakes to deal with!!!!! It's nothing like OLD, where a guy can "stuff" a site with stolen female photos and made-up profiles. It's a dating troll's worst nightmare.
Now the bad news... most of the singles & dating groups on Meetup.com are alcohol-centered, so if you don't drink then you're pretty much s*** out of luck. (For whatever reason, we seem to think nondrinkers don't get lonesome.)
But wait, there's more good news than bad... if you don't like any of the groups they have on Meetup.com already, you can start one for under 100 bucks, or if you're lucky you can take over one if the previous organizer is tired of running it... then you can customize the group.
On 12-4-2011, I went to a potluck for a singles group named Relationship Minded Singles, which was started on Meetup barely a month earlier by a guy named Jason who was tired of the bar scene. Since he started the group, it now has about 200 members... and over 40 showed up at the potluck. There was not a drop of alcohol to be found, so that BS that you can't have singles without alcohol is a crock. Everyone there was really cool, not rude or uptight like with the nightclub groups. Jason knows this, and that's why his group is different. Alcohol-centered singles groups come a dime a dozen on Meetup.com.
OTOH up until then I'd been going to a local singles meetup group which meets in nightclubs... and at the last meeting, the hostess only got 6 guests. Hopefully she will take the hint.
And then there's a group named Synergy that I went to 2 years ago... what a mess that one was. Turns out it was almost entirely made up of 50-60 yo women and a handful of men, and they all drink.
So... I don't think I'm making stuff up by saying that I think OLD's days are numbered. As more guys like Jason glom on to starting dating groups on Meetup.com, those groups will do to OLD what OLD did to outfits like Great Expectorations.
Ha ha, all those poor trolls will have nowhere to post their fake profiles. It breaks the heart... *sigh*
