For this week's topic, Interpersonal, Meetup.com was the tool related to the topic. MeetUp is a website that lets people in an area to schedule events and do what the website is called: meet up. This is related due to the fact that the website allows people to communicate to others.
Meetup.com serves the purpose of connecting people together. There are tons of interests on the website. There is anything like technology, sports, hobbies; all of these topics are used to search for different gatherings in the person's area. For example, if one were to look up the topic of technology for the Davenport area, there are gatherings of others with the same interest in Iowa City.
The most interesting thing I found about MeetUp is its ability to bring people together. Unlike Facebook and Twitter, this social media tool actually encourages people to step out behind the computer and get out in the real world.
I believe this tool improves communication since, as stated before, it gets people out in the real world. It utilizes the internet in a good way and allows someone to go meet actual people and get active.
I enjoyed meetup.com for what it was. It seemed a lot like Facebook's group tab a lot though. I like that it makes it easy for someone to become social, or just allows them to meet others with similar interests.
I too thought that meetup did a good job encouraging people to meet face to face. Almost every online website has a way to communicate but no way to videochat, nor even attempts to make people know each other outside of their profile
ReplyDeletemeet up .com does a great job by letting people know whats going on in the area like here in Davenport with a few clubs that I saw. The site shows is just another way to connect with people online like we are ready have with Facebook and twitter. And finally meet up.com tries finds peoples differences and similarities with the groups they've created
ReplyDeleteI agree Meetup is a really convenient way to bring people together in person that share the same interests. I think it would be especially helpful for people who have just moved to a new area to meet others there that share their interests which can help improve communication.
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