1.
Meetup.com relates to interpersonal relations
because it allows a person to create a profile (their interests) and find
people who share similar interests, as well as find events to go to that involve
those interests.
2.
The tool allows people to meet online and in
real life through the use of similar interests and events that users can choose
to go to. It allows people to create relationships through meeting one another
online and offline, and allows users to add each other through Facebook.
3.
I would say the most interesting part of the
website is that it is compatible with Facebook. It allows users another outlet
to find interests and see the other person’s profile prior to meeting them. As
well as adding another way to chat with people through Facebook messages.
4.
There really was nothing too challenging about
the website, it was pretty straight forward. The only irritating thing about it
was the calendar where it set the events that you could go to in a week, rather
than a day, and skips months unless the “next week” button is used. It took
longer than I want to admit to fully grasp the correct usage of the calendar…
5.
I think the tool complicates communication, it
allows people to find groups and create events, but it also allows users to
meet via Facebook, with so many different ways to communicate and plan events
it just seems to hinder the actual communication between people.
6.
I got irritated by the website through both
trying to find interests, and the calendar. While choosing interests I actually
enjoy, I found next to no events planned. So I just kept adding them, all the
way up to 600 different interests. And yet still have a total of nine events
between now and January. It just seems easier to plan things one on one rather
than a whole group at a time.
I also agree that the calendar app inside meetup.com was a bit frustrating. I went on numerous different groups homepages and found that most of the calendars were either empty or only showed the next upcoming event. Some of the group pages that I visited had a very good calendar. I think it depeneded entirely on the group creator and the way that they chose to use the calendar. I don't agree that meetup.com complicates communication. With more and more of communication happening online, I think that meetup.com is one of the more useful social media tools. It lets people find other people in their area based on common interets. This is something that facebook and twitter don't do.
ReplyDeleteI thought the Facebook integration was interesting too, but didn't really understand the need. I understand there are far more people on Facebook than meetup, but isn't Facebook's events essentially the same thing? The one thing that meetup does that Facebook doesn't is recommend events.
ReplyDeleteYes, actually there was nothing challenging about this tool. i think it is very easy to use and a good place to locate and arrange events to meet other. It only needs you to have address (zip code & city), and the event you want to meet then Meetup.com will help you whether to schedule a place and time to meet or find event to go meet others.
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