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Lonely? 'Meetup' gets people offline for face time

by Leslie Brooks Suzukamo
Knight Ridder Newspapers

. . . Maybe it sounds like a no-brainer, but Meetup turns the Internet on its head. People fell in love with the Net because it allowed them to find kindred souls they never needed to meet in person. You could find someone who shared your interests, particularly the really nerdy ones, and it didn't matter if they lived halfway around the world.

So why insist on face-to-face meetings? "Because you spend too much time in front of a screen," says Meetup's home page. . .

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