This is the new age of "meeting" people.  You don't even have to leave your home.  Just get online.  There are millions of "places" that you can meet people.  The drawback is that you don't always know exactly who you're meeting.  "Blind dates" are a given.  =)  I know colleagues that met their now wedded spouse online, from half-way around the world.  No, this was not through one of those "buying" a spouse online from a third world country.  They met through playing online games.  One was in Europe and the other is from the US.  They ended up getting married and staying in the US....

Do you have any experience meeting people online?