at the few meetups I went to I feel you, but I think any interaction would be light and superficial the first one or three or ten times, wouldn't it? But I th

at the few meetups I went to I feel you, but I think any interaction would be light and superficial the first one or three or ten times, wouldn't it? But I think what you said does feel really true. If a group meets once a month, it would take ages to form some real bonds, and people are popping in and dropping out all of the time, so it's hard to know which of the people would even be people you'd want to "invest" in, in terms of putting in the effort to get to know them better.