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What “should” a single event be?

I REALLY believe that singles events cannot be singles events. They need to be events for people to grow in some way (learn something, help someone, have fun…) in an environment that still helps people meet each other.

I also tend to believe that singles events should not be just for singles! It creates such awkwardness. If an event is cool and nice, why can’t other people come? It’s a big challenge to plan an event that isn’t focused on being single and isn’t even only for singles, but somehow still facilitate new people meeting but I believe that should be the goal.

Anyway, don’t you think that it should be easier for people to meet if there are married/coupled people there too? People that maybe want to help singles meet but also just want to be there for the event itself.

As I’m writing this, I feel like such a think tank – thinking and writing away but not actually trying to implement this myself. So I just want to mention that I fully appreciate the huge effort and amount of hard work that goes into planning an event, especially a single event. But at the same time, I hear so many complaints about singles events so obviously something has to change.

I’d like this to be a discussion because it’s a way for people who are planning events for singles to get more of a window into what we’re thinking and what we need and want.

So please, write here, what do you think could be the “dream singles event”? Or, the dream event where singles might meet…

Tell us what you think!

  1. P. Almonius
    August 11, 2010 at 4:22 pm | #1

    Why not just have events that attract people? Singles, being people (or at least half-people according to a speaker at the last singles event I will ever attend), might turn up at them. And they might even enjoy them.

    • August 11, 2010 at 5:16 pm | #2

      It has to be somewhat thought out or else people don’t really meet each other.

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