this may become a series or maybe a process, but today i was with my friend who's seeking out a boyfriend and the age old question arrived: how do i meet people in person? and for one, leaving the apartment in the first place is the first step. but then i thought where DO you meet people? im currently postponing studying for my final to write this since it came to me suddenly. and of course, i went to my go-to research site: reddit. first i looked into what people on reddit think are good places to meet people in their 20s in los angeles. there were a few common themes to their social outings: some kind of exercise (run clubs, group exercises, etc), artsy hangouts (open mics, jazz nights, painting workshops), and then classic meet-cutes (cafes, bars, dog park, like cmon). all of those activites and yet we're in a sea of singles. I intially told my friend to go to the bar and being an active How I Met Your Mother enjoyer, it seemed like a perfect set-up, but... she doesn't drink nor want a night activity. Then I tried to think realistically how I've met people in person in the past and majority are from parties and mutuals. After further research on reddit it has come to my attentiont that everyone (and I mean everyone) in los angeles are on the apps. apps are the big thing with our busy lives in the city of angels and too afraid to their reputation of nonchalantness. We have ventured to a cafe and we either acting so chalant that we're scaring potential prospects away or everyone is too caught up in their own lives. Where is the line drawn from being respectful and not disturbing someone's peace to asking for someone's number? I feel like that's a thing that most people are afriad of: the other person. Technology nowadays has gotten in the way and also advanced dating, but I think we can say that about technology for everything. We are both currently on the apps without many sucesses, it's so bad that I have never went on a second date with a prospect from hinge... so I will go back to the drawing board.