I am surprised that deleting Facebook led people to socialize offline more. After I deleted Facebook about seven years ago, my social life took a big dive because I was no longer getting word of events that my friends were organizing – they would solely post the announcements solely to Facebook. Now I am wondering if this doesn’t happen to people today because Facebook is increasingly passé, and so all those event announcements are going over Whatsapp instead and no one is deleting that.

But even today, without Facebook it must be difficult to hear of many general events happening in one’s city where one could make new friends. Meetup.com used to be a great platform for this, but where I live or in the cities I travel to, it has been reduced to either lecture evenings for software developers or thinly-veiled ways for yoga teachers and entrepreneurs to build businesses off of the people who show up.