Let's MeetUp & Network

It’s hard to make friends in your twenties and thirties, I think the only time you make friends is if you are currently studying, your colleagues at work or perhaps someone that lives in the same complex as you…maybe?...no? Anyway, some people say the other places to make friends is at the salon…Do your nails, at the same place, every 2 weeks and see what happens. Or rather when your child is invited to another kid’s birthday party and then you are forced to make conversations with other parents and then you realize that you tried but you just don’t share anything in common with these people or some similarities but still.

So here I am living alone, my friends are either busy, live too far or preparing for their year-end exams and I found myself really bored, like extremely bored…I tried sliding in on an acquittance’s DMs but his acting all celebrity on me so that ended nowhere…I tried tinder and hooked up with a guy and well, argh it was not worth sticking around and then I came across Meetup…nope, it’s not a dating site. It’s a social/networking platform which I found to be cool and I even signed up for a session coming up. So basically, people network on this platform either virtually or in person at an event…right up my alley. A decent way to make friends and not come across desperate, Yay.

You know how someone can either initiate or join an already existing book club, same with Meetup…you can start a group or join a group of people/club that you share similar interest with…borderline facebook-like. You can join events that interest you, you can make a friend and find a business partner who knows. it’s a platform owned by someone overseas, but on the actual site you can choose which events you want to attend according to your geographic area.

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I really feel like it makes making friends casual and easy. Normally people have a certain perception on networking…Formal…serious…looking to sell something but here it’s pretty chilled. I really recommend it if you want to try something new and interesting or meeting new and interesting people 😉.