Real Friends Offline

BUSINESS WEEK ONLINE -- June 24 -- Getting offline is growing. MeetIn.org, which intros friends, not lovers, has nearly doubled this year to 75,000 people in 90 cities worldwide. Launched five months ago, nightclub-oriented MingleNow.com already boasts 1 million users. MeetUp.com has doubled RSVPs in the past five months. In a survey of 3,357 MySpace users between ages12 and 21, 22% use the site for event information, according to Forrester Research. So do 30 percent of Facebook users. Making money is the hard part, MeetIn.org, scrapes by on $8,000 a year in unsolicited donations from members. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH NEWS WORLD