Speed Dating?

I'm curious if anyone here has had any experience with speed dating and if so, what you thought of it.

There is an event in my city next month and one of my Meetup groups has made an event of it. I'm not actively searching for a relationship, but I am single and I've never done the speed dating thing before. Part of me is like, "Hey, it's $5. Why not?" The other part of me (the awkward, socially challenged part) feels that I'll stumble through six minutes, make a fool of myself, and just feel badly at the end of the night (I know, how's that for self confidence?) Small talk doesn't thrill me in the first place and this is based on small talk. But you gotta live a little, right?

Anyway, what have you all experienced?

I'm single, I've seen them on commercials heard about them and also on tv, never been to one.

I'd go to them to meet new people not to date, but just to meet new people and act silly and not take it seriously at all. I know it's not a popular thing to do for people who are serious going to those things, but really 5 $ dollars to possibly find a decent date. It's a really weird position to be in already.

I would feel rather more awkward in your shoes, because of the circumstances if I chose to go in there finding love or just another date.

In fact, for me being myself I wouldn't take it seriously at all even if it ended up negative for me regardless. That's my take, but I wish you best of luck though.

I don't need it right now but i would so do it if I did. Every time they had them in my area it was for a different age groups or events were sold too quickly before I was able to get to it.

I think if you find yourself a bit socially awkward ( just going by what you said) it could be a good experience to practice small talk and meeting strangers. I would do it just for fun as a practice if not for anything else

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I've never had the chance to speed date. It sounds pretty scary to me actually. Meeting a lot of men in one day is not for me.

I think I would do this. As anxious as I would be, the men would probably be just as anxious. Also too, there is not award for being successful - except of course meeting someone. But what I mean is you don't get a medal so don't set up for yourself any expectations. Similarly I think you also win if you don't meet anyone. It means you haven't settled.

I did it once back when I was single. In my particular case, I didn't find the people I met to be what I was looking for. I did not meet anyone I was interested in either as a date or a friend. What I can say is that I got some new horror stories to tell my friends the next day! I'm sure there are better events out there; the one I went to just wasn't it!

I have so many funny and horrid stories about my dating that I can write a book. But then I teach high school for a living so there is nothing that scares me lol and I am not socially awkward or shy or none of that but I would never meet my BF that way. He'd never do that as he is self conscious due to OCD and Tourette's. Even online dating was a huge challenge for him and he about passed out talking to me the first time lol no way he would be able to handle speed dating, so it is not for everyone. But I am sure glad he tried online dating, otherwise I'd never meet him and he is awesome. So go challenge yourself!

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I love this idea, speed-friending/meeting people not to date!

I have some pretty good ones myself.

Life is about to start getting very busy with a new job on the horizon (I anticipate)...as if it wasn't already with the past few years of school. But I think I use that as an excuse for keeping people out sometimes. At the same time, depression (and pretending you're not depressed for the sake of getting along in life) tends to suck the energy right out of you--oftentimes I don't have a lot of energy to put into this kind of stuff when it's all said and done.

We'll see. At the moment, I don't have any (good) reason not to go.

Tell us how that work out!

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You are female?

I am female and beforehand the females were in a group conversing. I was chit chatting and being nice. The jealousy and competitiveness among some females was amazing.
Be forewarned!

The men were nice and it was fun, though. And the questions were not bad. I did not like any of the guys, but they were nice.

Do it!

I am.

I didn't even think about that, but it doesn't surprise me one bit.

I might do it. It does depend on what kind of head-space I'm in. Right now, I'm not in a very stable one, and I don't think that's a great place from which to meet new people. But we'll see.

I know what you mean. Got to be wearing a postive self-confidence face.