Meet new people for lunch
Noonhat is a website that refers to itself as an easy and safe way to meet people for lunch. The way it works seems pretty straightforward. You enter your email address, the date, and then choose your location. After you submit your info, Noonhat will find other folks in the area who are looking for lunch buddies.
The brain behind the site, Brian Dorsey, hopes that it will help people to meet up and enjoy some good conversation with people they might never meet otherwise. It sounds a little wacky, but then again, think back to the early days of the Internet. How many of us started making friendships with people we didn’t know in other cities or countries? How many of us started online journals, then blogs, and reached out to others, sharing part of ourselves in the process? Many people thought those of us who did that were weird - I can’t tell you how many people couldn’t understand why I wrote about myself on the Internet. Now every other person you speak to either has a blog or reads some. Online friendships are common, and so some day meeting lunch dates over the Internet might not sound so strange either.
It’s currently available in North America. I confess that I’d be a little apprehensive only because I’m not super fond of small talk. Still, I’m curious about it, and I can see how it could be interesting if you were traveling around and wanted to meet up with some locals to chit chat over a plate of pasta about interesting sights to see.
What do you think? Would you try it out?
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