I'm a dev with a strong *NIX sysadmin background. I've been programming for 20+ years, started with IRC scripts, C, Python, PHP, Ruby/Rails, Node/JS, Go and Elxir. Full time on Ruby,Elixir and Rust.
Try meetups in your city (or a nearest bigger city), pick whatever topic/activity might interest you (even if you never tried that) and go with the flow.
Pinging (random?) people on social media has the lowest rate of success (and you also might come as somewhat creepy).
I have a Facebook account with deliberately zero friends, I only use it to find events (mostly live concerts and club parties) when I want to have some fun ;-)
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It's very dependant on where you are in the world I've noticed.
In some places it's the norm, in others it's frowned upon.
My personal believes is that we should do more of it.
It's cool to get to know new people.
Yes, mostly I ping people on social media.
Try meetups in your city (or a nearest bigger city), pick whatever topic/activity might interest you (even if you never tried that) and go with the flow.
Pinging (random?) people on social media has the lowest rate of success (and you also might come as somewhat creepy).
I have a Facebook account with deliberately zero friends, I only use it to find events (mostly live concerts and club parties) when I want to have some fun ;-)