Lonely and Scared

[athanasius]

Somehow I'd managed not to think about this too much until this evening.

Then it occurred to me I'd not arranged anything to do with the bank holiday weekend, you know, when at least some of my friends must be doing something I could join in with.

Comments

[emeraldgrrl]

Is there any networking to be had on a group like MySpace/Friendster just for socialising? It's a good way to at least find people in your area. You may have already explored this, but it's a one place to start.

[athanasius]

I've messaged the whole TWO people actually in Fleet itself on OkCupid.

I've never figured out just how you're meant to use the MySpace search to find anything useful. It just doesn't think how I do apparently.

I seem to recall having a Friendster account, I guess I could check it.

The thing about Fleet I think is it's full of:

1) People who've lived here all their lives.
2) People who have retired here.
3) REALLY well off people.

and other types that don't tend to hang out on the net much. I guess we'll see.

[athanasius]

Right, if I put my post code into MySpace's browse, with any of the distance options, leaving other options all nice and open... no results.

Friendster won't go below 'Country' level if I select the UK.

Bloody USA-centric web....

[pogodragon]

There's also Facebook - I've only just joined so haven't poked around on there much, but there are networks of various sorts - geographical and interest based - that might cough something up.

Just for a change though I'm on there under my real name (which I'm pretty sure you do know so if you sign up you can find me).

[themadone]

Just had a search within the London network (it's the only one applicable
for anyone in the South East of England) and it throws up over 300 people
whose home town is Fleet. Whether that means they're actually living there
or not, I don't know - I saw a couple of folk who are at my Uni, so I'm
guessing they're not living at Fleet at the moment.

[pogodragon]

It's unlikely that they're all not there all the time though - some places it's just hard to find out where to find the people and it sounds like Fleet is one of those places.

(Gah, that was a horrible sentence, I know what I mean, I hope it's at least vaguely comprehensible to other people as well...)

[athanasius]

I know what you mean.

I also remembered I have a Bebo account, but it seems to have no geographic search at all.

I'm attempting to signup to Facebook but it seems their mail system hates greylisting. One delivery attempt at 15:17, which hit the greylisting and NOTHING since (now 1h12m later).