Comments | rhonan: Seattle OK Cupid Coffee Social

rhonan

Seattle OK Cupid Coffee Social

Jun 26, 2008 19:39

Are you in Seattle, do you use OK Cupid, and do you like chatting with people IRL? If so, you should join us at Wayward Coffee House this Saturday for the OKC >30 coffee social. While we are billing it as an old-farts event, folks under 30 are welcome as well. Just so long as they don't make fun of us. Wayward Coffee House is at 8570 Greenwood ( Read more... )

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rhonan June 27 2008, 03:58:39 UTC

No, it was organized by someone who figured most of us >30 types would be more interested in a chatty coffee meetup, compared to the folks who organized a meetup at a popular bar on a Friday night. There's actually a pretty sizable population of folks who use that site more for socializing then for dating.

sebab June 27 2008, 04:04:11 UTC

What time will it be?

Whether I ca go depends on the time, in part :)

rhonan June 27 2008, 04:07:33 UTC

It starts at 2pm, and I suppose will run until people are chatted out. I hope you can stop by.

sebab June 27 2008, 04:23:54 UTC

I'm thinking about going to the workship at (I think) 3:30 at CSPC; might stop by Wayward briefly beforehand :)

cooncat June 27 2008, 18:43:25 UTC

I'll go if I'm around and have nothing better to do; I'm pretty ambivalent about the whole thing.

I don't approve of people using okcupid for socializing and being mixed with people using it to find suitors; since there's no way to tell one from the other, or if people are crossing the line back and forth.

rhonan June 27 2008, 20:04:14 UTC

I don't approve of people using okcupid for socializing and being mixed with people using it to find suitors; since there's no way to tell one from the other, or if people are crossing the line back and forth.

Why? OKC did not start out as a dating site. It originally was just focused on making it easier for people to meet other people of like minds for what ever they wanted. It only developed the dating focus as a marketing tool to make it easier to sell adverts.

cooncat June 29 2008, 15:06:16 UTC

Was it called "okcupid" back in those days?

Anyway. How was the social?

rhonan June 29 2008, 18:12:43 UTC

Back then, it was called The Spark. I didn't use it then, but that is when Bel started using it. So, while it is primarily marketed as a dating site, it does have other valid uses.

Heck, look at ElJay. There are a lot of people on here who hardly ever read other people's journals, never participate in any of the communities, don't use their friend's page to read feeds of off-site blogs, and would never think of using a comment thread as a messaging system. All they do is post their daily journal entry of all the cute thinks their cats did that day. Should they be the one's who define how the site should be used?

As for the meet up, it was a small, nice crowd. Unbeknownst to all of us, the streets by the coffee shop were blocked off for a car show of some kind. danicia gave me some pirate stickers as a congratulations gift for the new job.

crimson_storm June 28 2008, 23:05:05 UTC

I"m still in arizona, but I'm searching the internet for a ticket home that I can afford. If it's still on when I come back, I'll totally go. I should for two reasons. 1-I've been on there for five years, the whole time as corspefetish. and 2-I'm THE WORST at answering mail!! Guilty am i!