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Largest Hanging Out groups
1
Having Fun in Az Social Group
19,445 Members | Scottsdale, USA
Cyndi
Organized by Cyndi
Cyndi
Organized by Cyndi
2
20 & 30-somethings friends & fun in SF
18,054 SF 20/30-somethings | San Francisco, USA
Arthur
Organized by Arthur
Arthur
Organized by Arthur
3
London Speaks! (9K members!) Language and Culture exchange
10,515 Speakers | London, United Kingdom
Humayun
Organized by Humayun
Humayun
Organized by Humayun
4
@ Social & Networking - Nashville!
7,438 Members | Nashville, USA
Wes
Organized by Wes
Wes
Organized by Wes
5
NJ Mix & Mingle Group (Happy Hour, Nightlife, & More)
5,454 Members | Montclair, USA
Michael
Organized by Michael
Michael
Organized by Michael
6
Hangout in Nice
5,186 Members | Nice, France
Tanya
Organized by Tanya
Tanya
Organized by Tanya
7
Weekend Fun And Frolic
4,701 Members | Mumbai, India
Stephen
Organized by Stephen
Stephen
Organized by Stephen
8
Language Exchange & Activities & Social in Paris
4,471 Members | Paris, France
Alberto Blitz
Organized by Alberto Blitz
Alberto Blitz
Organized by Alberto Blitz
9
Jacksonville 20's and 30's Hang Out
4,331 Awesome people | Jacksonville, USA
Bakari Powell
Organized by Bakari Powell
Bakari Powell
Organized by Bakari Powell
10
The Fun For Next to Nothing Meetup
4,284 Fun Lovers | Vancouver, Canada
Roman Ansari
Organized by Roman Ansari
Roman Ansari
Organized by Roman Ansari
Newest Hanging Out groups
Toronto Events Meetup Group
1 Members
Started Mar 14 in Toronto, Canada
Michigan City Social Meetup Group
1 Members
Started Mar 14 in Michigan City, USA
Prague Spiral Dynamics Meetup Group
1 Members
Started Mar 13 in Prague, Czech Republic
Club lectura en Santa Cruz
4 Members
Started Mar 12 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
The Courage Barrier
2 Members
Started Mar 12 in Portland, USA
Paris Social media Content creators
1 Members
Started Mar 12 in Paris, France
Tips to Have Fun With People Again
- Social isolation was on the rise even before the pandemic, but has spiked in recent years.
- In "Hanging Out," author Sheila Liming explores how people can reclaim the benefits of socializing.
- Liming spoke to Insider about the book and her favorite ways to hang out in an interview this month.
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Nobody hangs out anymore, at least not like we used to. We are eternally tied to our phones, our televisions, our computers, our desks — all of which increasingly exist within the same four walls where we eat, sleep, and unwind each day, oftentimes completely alone.
Even before the pandemic, social isolation was on the rise. The rapid pace of modern life coupled with exponential technological advancement prompted US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to declare an "epidemic of loneliness" in April 2020.
Then COVID-19 arrived and exacerbated our societal state of shared solitude. It's that ongoing crisis that author Sheila Liming explores in her new book, "Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time," a work that examines both how and why we lost the art of the hang (hint: it's not all COVID's fault), and one that proposes solutions to help people reclaim those lost connections.
Hanging out, according to Liming, is the unstructured or lightly structured time spent in the company of friends, strangers, or acquaintances. Though a simple concept, hanging out is essential to our existence, Liming argues, providing the space to seek intimacy, connection, and peace with other people.
As our world grows more insular and ornery, Liming suggests hanging out is an action we can — and should — prioritize, even if it means dragging ourselves away from the couch and opening ourselves up to discomfort.
It would be easy to blame the crisis of community on COVID-19, an era-defining pandemic that radically altered social interactions and norms around the globe.
But Liming argues throughout her book that the pandemic was not so much a cause, but a catalyst, to our already-shifting relationship with hanging out. The idea for the book struck her as early as 2019, she told Insider, predating the coronavirus. But the pandemic kicked those musings into overdrive.
"I had been thinking about parties, and I had been thinking about adult social structures, and I had been thinking about the ways that we get together with friends in casual atmospheres," Liming said in an interview this month. "Then all of a sudden we didn't have any of those."
Covid essentially helped "transfer the majority of our social energies to the internet," Liming writes. Our dependence on technology had already curtailed in-person socializing; the pandemic just sealed the deal.
But the virtual world simply can't offer the same level of intimacy as an in-person hangout, Liming argues.
Melville House Publishing published "Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time" earlier this year. Courtesy of Melville House Publishing Bye-bye to work friendsThe pandemic also dealt a death knell to the traditional workplace, though society's relationship with our jobs was shifting long before Covid. Regardless of what ultimately caused the workplace casualty, socialization has suffered as a result.
The workplace is often where we begin to form attachments in a new place, Liming said.
Hanging out requires certain commonalities between participants, Liming told Insider, including space and schedule, which is why the standard nine-to-five, in-person work model was once so conducive to friendships and informal hangouts.
The proliferation of remote working, however, has since nixed the opportunity for shared spaces, while hybrid work has seemingly killed the concept of shared schedules.
"Now even when we go into work, there aren't other people there, and we don't have that same kind of experience of killing time around the water cooler or the coffee pot," Liming said.
The pandemic has also been blamed for eradicating "third spaces," communal places that are neither the workplace nor the home, where people can gather and socialize, such as churches, clubs, libraries, gyms, bookstores, and parks, according to Liming. Third places allow a person to "exist in public without having to claim the right to exist in public through some sort of productive activity or commerce," she told Insider, making them prime spots for impromptu socializing.
The decline of third spaces, however, has been steadily on the rise since the early 2000s, becoming even more pronounced following the advent of smartphones, according to Liming.
"A lot of our life started to take place in these virtual public spaces as opposed to physical public spaces," she said.
Hanging out in this day and age takes real workIn her book, Liming offers gentle suggestions to help readers start seeking shared joy.
1. Not all hangouts are created equal
Amid the pandemic tumult, Liming said she started noticing growing anxiety among her compatriots regarding parties.
"We think of parties as being celebratory occasions. Yet, I find that easily half of the people I know view parties with a certain amount of dread," Liming said. "I was interested in that. Why is it that we do these things if we don't like doing them?"
Some types of hangouts revealed themselves to be more conducive to achieving the benefits of socialization than others, she said.
"I think it's hard to have a really gratifying experience hanging out when you're in a really gigantic group, because inevitably what you do is you end up seeking out the smaller group scenarios," Liming said.
For maximum benefits: keep your hangout small, Liming advocated, especially as we all become re-acquainted with group socializing.
Sheila Liming's "Hanging Out" examines how and why we as a society lost the art of the hang and proposes solutions to help people reclaim those lost connections Getty Images2. Find a niche interest
Liming, herself, plays the bagpipes, and dedicates one of the book's chapters to "jamming," recounting her years playing with different groups of friends and likening the improvisational element of making music to the spontaneity present in social settings.
Her mastery of the unique instrument helped her put roots down in several eras of life, including a recent cross-country move, she said.
"What I often do when I move to a place is I find out who plays bagpipes in that place," she told Insider. "If you want to be involved in this, you've got to seek each other out. That's the only way it works."
Hobbies, passion projects, and reliably-scheduled meetings or meetups are all gateways to hanging out, Liming said.
3. Take risks and take your headphones out
We can plan and prep and fret until we've exhausted ourselves, but sometimes human connection comes when we least expect it, Liming said. She suggests readers mentally and physically avail themselves of opportunities for socializing and chance encounters, the likes of which are likely to evade the headphone-wearing hiker or home-dwelling human.
"We risk bringing discomfort upon ourselves when we enter into situations that lack foreseeable parameters or outcomes," Liming writes.
"But insofar as discomfort is linked to its inverse, to comfort — because we cannot know and define one sensation without having some experience of the other — hanging out can be a way to keep the two in balance, to force a person to constantly confront and reckon with the definitions of each."
4. Be an active participant in maintaining your hangout health
It may seem simple, but it's perhaps Liming's most significant reminder: Cultivating meaningful relationships and experiences requires active participation, effort, decision, stamina, and care.
"Hanging out requires the repeated exertion and application of one's social capacities. That can feel exhausting, sure..." Liming writes. "But as with all things, the first attempt is the hardest and after that, momentum can be counted on to bear an increasing proportion of the weight of whatever follows."
old walls, strange streets, people hanging out under my window — rnkrn†
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Rafis Khabibullin "ran into" the New Year holidays
Chief of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Republic of Tatarstan predicted an increase in the number of fires and explained what was wrong with the detectors
“A detector was installed for the owner of the house.
And he either changed it or drank it away!” - Rafis Khabibullin, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Republic of Tatarstan, was indignant today, speaking in the Cabinet. The chief rescuer of the republic said that the “coronavirus” year gave an increase in the total number of fires by as much as 10%, and also unexpectedly spoke in favor of reducing the Christmas holidays that were too long, in his opinion. About what arguments Khabibullin cited - in the material "BUSINESS Online".
Rafis Khabibulllin expressed his New Year fears in the Cabinet of Ministers today Photo: prav.tatarstan.ru
“We are like New Year, like Sabantuy — we work for days!”
The head of the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Republic of Tatarstan Rafis Khabibullin played the role of the Grinch, a famous character of American culture who tried to steal Christmas.
Summing up the results of the year, in the Cabinet of Ministers he expressed his New Year's fears.
“We are in favor of shortening the [New Year's] holidays,” Khabibullin, Minister of Emergency Situations of Tatarstan (as he was presented in the government), expressed an unexpected position, supporting calls for Russians to shorten the New Year holidays from December 31 to January 10.
What did the official not like? He justified his thesis simply - an increasing burden on the department under his control. “People are resting, baths are being heated. When people are constantly at home, they have to do something, drink alcohol. But we still work around the clock. We are like the New Year holidays, that Sabantuy - we still work around the clock. We have such a job. The guard sets up at 7 am and changes the next day at 7 am. Of course, there is more work [during the New Year holidays]," Rafis Zavdatovich said rather emotionally.
The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Republic of Tatarstan stated that rescuers and fire brigades have been working in a special mode for the 9th day: from December 20 to January 10, a special fire regime has been established in the republic.
Moreover, it is introduced in Tatarstan annually. “We know that it is quite effective. During the operation of this regime, sanctions for violations of fire safety for citizens, officials and legal entities are significantly tightened. The fines are doubled,” Khabibullin recalled during his speech.
This year, the Ministry of Emergency Situations took control of 1,485 New Year and 298 Christmas activities. There were 654 violations at the places of their conduct during the inspections, but more than half of them were eliminated immediately. The rest are still in progress.
Khabibullin paid special attention to the installation of fire detectors, of which 251,000 were counted in the republic this year. Photo: mchs.tatarstan.ru
“A detector was installed for the owner of the house. He either changed it or drank it away.”
At this point, the attacks on holidays that were too long, according to the minister, ended, and he briefly described the difficult year.
Despite the reduction in the number of fires over the past five years, Khabibullin predicts an increase in the number of deaths by 10% by the end of the year (final data is still being collected). The speaker paid special attention to the installation of fire detectors, of which 251,000 were counted in the republic this year. For example: in neighboring Bashkortostan, according to Khabibullin, there are "100 thousand with kopecks."
Thanks to the detectors, 116 people, including 49 children, have survived this year in Tatarstan. However, there is a problem of "certain layers of citizens".
“ Although the state is doing everything to save people's lives, some categories of citizens are doing the opposite,” said the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan.
As an example, he cited the last two fires of December 23 and 27. The first of them took place in the village of Savelyevo, Zainsky district.
Last year, detectors were installed for a local resident, but he was a heavy smoker and, in order for the detector not to beep, he removed the battery. The battery was returned in November, but he took it off anyway and died as a result.
“There was a similar case in the Sabinsky district. A fire detector was installed for the owner of the house, and then he did not let fire inspectors into the house. As a result, he either changed it or drank it away," Khabibullin said about the last case.
Thanks to the detectors, 116 people, including 49 children, have escaped on their own in Tatarstan this year. However, there is a problem of "certain layers of citizens" Photo: mchs.tatarstan.ru
“We don’t even know how many people are in private boarding schools”
Another high-profile topic that the chief rescuer of Tatarstan commented on today is the echo of a fire in a nursing home in the Abzelilovsky district of Bashkortostan, which claimed the lives of 11 people.
After the emergency, as usually happens, checks were carried out in the regions in similar institutions. In Tatarstan, both public and private facilities were investigated, but only 22 were counted.
“Violations were detected in every region of the republic. Mostly these are private cottages. Boarding schools for the elderly are located both in rural areas and in large cities of the republic. In public institutions, violations can be eliminated without large financial investments. These are capital violations,” Khabibullin said in an interview with a BUSINESS Online correspondent.
He added that information from state social facilities comes without human intervention. “Private institutions do not have this tool. We don't even know how many people are in private boarding schools. Today, unfortunately, the state does not regulate this work. We will fight this. Otherwise, anything can happen. There is a danger. We simply do not have the information,” said the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the republic.
