Anyone use "Meetup"?????????

Jeni said:
i was looking into joining a local hiking club and such seems like a good idea to meet folks.
depends on area i think the closest group that was doing items i wanted would be a 2 hour drive away so i am still looking.
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There is a hiking group here. I would like to join for safety in numbers but every month when the sign up date comes something is going on. One of these days I'll get to it.
 
Years ago, I registered to join a local photography group and joined them for some photo walks a few times. It was good and the only reason I stopped was because I rarely had the time. The one downside was that my email inbox got flooded with unsolicited emails so, if I were ever to join again, I would register with an email address created especially for that purpose (y)
 
Sure. Meetup is huge in the SF Bay Area. Have attended hiking and photography groups but have been inactive since the pandemic. Generally tend to be too busy most times of the year to be a regular active member. Whether meetup will be useful to individuals greatly depends on numbers of others within their urban region. Obviously, for more rural folks it will all be too diffuse to have a usable critical mass of others. As to specific groups, that activity and usefulness depends on members so may vary from A to Z even for same subject nearby groups dependent on how whatever is structured.

For instance with hiking groups, some may be for those competitively minded interested in challenge, competition, and miles while at the other extreme are hiking groups just content to have leisurely local group hikes in area public lands.
 
There are 34 meetup groups right now in my town, none of which interest me; at any time, there are at least a few looking for someone to lead them (in other words, no longer active but still listed), and at least 7 right now are not really local groups, but instead are local chapters of groups following a self-help book and spending the get-togethers discussing the book: Gaining Happiness in Your Life; Improve Your Communication Skills; Law of Attraction; How to Improve Your Anxiety; stuff like that that really isn't local people meeting up over mututal interests but rather a way for someone to sell more copies of their book. I was reading that that's happening more and more with meetups all over. I still check meetup once in a while (hope springs eternal, I guess) but have really just about given up on it.

It might be better in other areas, though.
 
I did a lot of MeetUp hiking events a few years ago. Overall a good group but there was one aspect I didn't care for. The hiking group also planned a lot of social get together, beers after a hike, dinners, concerts, weekend trips, that kind of thing. I didn't attend those functions and was always fielding questions as why not, I got the feeling it was more of a social group than a hiking group.
 
I belong to 2 groups. The first one helped me in the grieving process after the loss of my father. We cooked and served dinner at the local Ronald McDonalds House once a week, which was situated near a very active hospital and a major children's hospital in NY that drew patients from a wide area. The fellow cooks were wonderful to be with and being around others going through so much worse than me (families of deathly ill children and adults) made me realize that sometimes you just have to fight through awful situations.

The 2nd is a group of hot springs aficionados based in ID that put together trips to various hot springs all over the west. It's mostly 30 somethings so I doubt they'd appreciate getting naked w an old, married man! I was into hot springs as a youth so thought I'd join to get some intel on lesser known springs in my area. I doubt I'll ever attend a get together or trip w them.
 
The hiking group I was with hiked through parts of the woods I wasn't interested in, and at a pace that didn't allow slowing or stopping to check out something interesting, so I never did it again.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Anyone use the online site, "Meetup"?? Maybe a seniors coffee club or something??? I was thinking of the seniors day trip idea.
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Years ago, I actually started a Meetup for my local writers' group in an attempt to grow the membership. Had to pay a fee (I don't remember the cost, but it was monthly). It was too much work to maintain and people would show up once and then didn't show up again. So I stopped the Meetup group and just stayed with managing the group we had.
 
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