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Where do you go to meet real humans and have social interaction?
by exprofmaddy 2y ago
Where do you go to meet real humans and have social interaction?
- ErikAugust 2y agoHacker News.
- MegaButts 2y agoI find HN more depressing than other social media. It's more focused on money, more anonymous (which isn't necessarily bad, but harder to connect with people), but mostly it's by far the most arrogant. I became a lot happier when I stopped showing up here regularly.
- bubblic 2y agoDef on the higher end of social media IQ spectrum
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoCertainly likes to pretend that it is, anyway.
- jaybhum 2y agoWouldn’t mind that’s for sure
- exe34 2y agoI gave up before lockdown, and it turned out I was just preparing for what everybody else felt was the social apocalypse.
- dpkirchner 2y agoIn my case a local makerspace to play board games. I've made a few friends that I hang out with outside the space -- sometimes I host events in my home, sometimes we go out to get dinner or whatever.
- binary_slinger 2y agoCommunity college noncredit courses.
- bubblic 2y agoClasses are actually so great for meeting new people. Caveat: needs to be in person
- ggu7hgfk8j 2y agoClan, guild and hood
- dtquad 2y agoBoth X and Bluesky are surprisingly pleasant places if you mute/block political keywords and accounts.
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoBluesky notably having powerful blocklists.
- disambiguation 2y ago"Technology got us into this problem, and technology will get us out of it!"
- bubblic 2y agoGotta meet where the people are to get them unstuck!
- SSLy 2y agoPub quiz meetings, art galleries, film festivals.
- vundercind 2y agoLiterally pick any half-organized activity. They’ll be posted all over the Web (sorry, you will probably need a Facebook account), your city’s website may have lists of organizations, and there are probably some fliers posted at the library (and the library may run a few gatherings themselves!)
- bubblic 2y agoThose are so important! I often struggle to suggest activities other than sports
- disambiguation 2y agoPiggy backing to add - running clubs, book clubs, board game clubs, church if you're religious.
- sicromoft 2y agoPickleball courts
- nop_slide 2y agoOur (the states) reliance on car central culture is killing us in more ways than one. I grew up in the suburbs and you could easily go a week without substantially interacting with people. Jump in your metal capsule, drive 7 mins to Walmart, walk quietly across the huge parking lot, get your item and return home. Contrasted with dense urban city with public transit, you will serendipitously bump into people and be forced to interact more with society, even if it is just exchanging pleasantries. This is killing ourselves socially, not to mention how much cars cause physical death.
- vundercind 2y agoAnd I feel like this could all come to no good The kids who populate these cul-de-sacs will never know what stood Beneath their cookie-cutter houses, fields and streams and woods They'll sit in cars and wait for mom to drive them out of this boring neighborhood - Defiance, Ohio; “Oh! Susquehanna”
- potato3732842 2y agoI assure you that living in the city you can easily go about your business for a week or more without talking to anyone if you so choose. People who don't know each other don't interact with each other in the city.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoIn affluent white neighborhoods somewhat true. Not at all true in my part of the city.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoI loved living in a city more than I like driving around the suburbs, but suburbs exist and you can't wave a magic wand and turn them into cities. Being mad at cars isn't a solution, they're necessary for how much of the country is laid out.
- wing-_-nuts 2y agoThat 'dense urban landscape' basically does not exist outside of NYC in the US. I'm not sure I'd choose it as a forever home anyway. For me personally, when looking for a 'forever home' I'm starting to look at smaller college towns. They often have a walkable core around the college, you have access to continuing education opportunities and a college library. While yes, living around a gaggle of college age kids can be tiring as you get older, a local university fosters a lot of intellectual vibrancy that you wouldn't get without it. You can always hang out with the older folks who teach the classes and serve the college age population.
- kiba 2y agoI do improvisational comedy. The improv community is very small despite being in a major metropolitan area.
- bubblic 2y agoThis is one of those things that if you find people into the same thing, you can instantly bond over since it is quite niche
- kiba 2y agoI only wish that is true, beyond the one close friend I made. There are gaps in my social skillset and mentality that makes it difficult for me to achieve.
- rnd0 2y agoDo people even do that any more? Serious question. I'm old and literally have no idea!
- kikokikokiko 2y agoJust sign to a gym. Not the pumping iron ones. Sign up to a martial arts gym, a dance studio, an art school. Anything that is more of a social activity, and that YOU LIKE. If you find a group of people that share the same niche interest that you genuinely have, you make friends. My personal advice to the engineer type of guys, is go to a BJJ gym if you want to practice something that is extremely challenging both physically and intellectually. The number of techniques is virtually infinite, and you can become good by simply memorizing more tech than your average jock. So, to make male friends (but not only that) go to a BJJ gym. If you want to meet girls, go to a dance studio. Both skills will be really valuable in terms of physical and mental health throughout your life, apart from the friends you'll make.
- thehoff 2y agoVolunteer work. I volunteer with one group (and have been doing this for almost 8 years now). I can't believe how many friends I have just from this one activity. Neighbors. Just start talking to them. Have them over. We do this for football (NFL) games or just for dinner. Surprisingly (or maybe not). Kpop concerts. My wife is very into this music scene. She has definitely made friends she keeps in touch with (friends she met at the concert). I went to one and I couldn't believe how many fans went alone and formed their own groups at the concert to watch/dance. And this is for all ages (I saw 80 year olds down to the teenagers). Edit: I should note that the concerts she has been to did not cost an arm and a leg.
- bubblic 2y agoTennis and rock climbing. Sports are easy gateways for friendship