Is meeting people in real life back?
A decline in alcohol consumption and the rise of nonalcoholic beverages may be the reason some people don’t see the point of going to a bar at all anymore. Pictured: Mary’s B.O.T.E. (Courtesy Go Time Memphis)
Last year, Greyson Edwards’s two-year relationship ended. He wanted to get back out there, but he was tired of dating apps.
Edwards, 24, sells vintage clothes and works as a part-time bartender. Even so, he found opportunities to meet new people in person lacking.
He’s not alone in his search for places to meet new people. Google search queries for “how to make friends,” “where to meet people” and “third place” — a social place outside home and work where people spend time — are at all-time highs this year, according to Google Trends.
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Nick Lingerfelt
Nick Lingerfelt has written for Focus Mid-South Magazine, StyleBlueprint, Salon and At Home Memphis & Mid South. When he was a student at the University of Memphis, he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Helmsman, the school’s student newspaper.
Also while a student at the U of M, he received the Otis Sanford Outstanding Journalism Student award and the 2nd Place Marc Perrusquia Investigative Journalism Award for a story about the demographic makeup of the school’s sports teams.
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