# Are you good at meeting people at events where you don't know anybody?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-good-at-meeting-people-at-events-where-you-dont-know-anybody/689007>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 22, 2014, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-good-at-meeting-people-at-events-where-you-dont-know-anybody/689007 "2014-05-22T14:35:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-good-at-meeting-people-at-events-where-you-dont-know-anybody/689007/41 "2014-05-23T02:36:42Z")

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It’s not easy for me, but I’m not terrible at it either. When I was single and hoping to meet someone I was probably worse at mingling than I am now, since at parties that was always in the back of my mind. Now that I’m married (to someone I met at a party, so I guess it was in the back of my mind for a reason), I don’t have that obstacle. When it’s a professional meeting, I’m not,the best mingles but not the worst either. I’m actually better at speaking to the whole group at once than speaking to individuals, though.

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