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Online network brings together people with similar interests

Online social network Meetup.com helps people with similar interests meet for fun, socializing and more. Oklahoma has 154 Meetups unified by interests, such as parenting, exercise, language and dance.

 
BY JOHN A. WILLIAMS | Published: May 19, 2010    Comment on this article Leave a comment

Looking to meet other people with similar interests and hobbies?

If you are a wine lover, newly single, an entrepreneur, photographer, writer, small-dog owner, ghost chaser or you want to learn to salsa dance or speak Spanish, German or French, there is a Meetup for that.

photo - Instructor Hazel Lopez-Crutcher, right, dances Friday with Glen Emerson during a Argentine tango lesson at the International Dance Studio in Oklahoma City. At left are Dawn Mahiya and David Diaz. The dance group is one of the metro area’s 154 Meetup groups. PHOTOS BY NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN
Instructor Hazel Lopez-Crutcher, right, dances Friday with Glen Emerson during a Argentine tango lesson at the International Dance Studio in Oklahoma City. At left are Dawn Mahiya and David Diaz. The dance group is one of the metro area’s 154 Meetup groups. PHOTOS BY NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN

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Meetup.com is an online social network with 6.1 million members promoting 68,000 groups, called Meetups, in 45,000 cities, according to the website.

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To find a Meetup group, go to www.meetup.com and search for Oklahoma City.


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Oklahoma City metro area has 154 Meetups unified by common interests, such as The Yukon Stay At Home Moms, the Oklahoma Kettlebells in Edmond, dedicated to the use of the Russian kettlebell for exercise, and the Educators of Liberty in Norman.

Andrea Foster, a professional astrologer who has studied metaphysics for more than 40 years, leads the 150-member Oklahoma City Law of Attraction Meetup.

"Before I moved to Oklahoma two years ago, I wanted to have a group of friends ready and waiting for me, so I started a metaphysics Meetup, a writing Meetup, and joined a social group,” Foster said.

The Law of Attraction is the law of the universe, Foster said.

"It’s all in the laws of physics ... it also can encompass things as mysterious as prayer, affirmations, intuition,” she said.

After discovering ballroom dance, Betty Norman, of Oklahoma City, was looking for something a little more exciting.

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