I don&#x27;t know about deep friendships, as I really don&#x27;t have the time to maintain all my friendships anymore, but I&#x27;ve become friends with quite a few people by just picking a few groups on Meetup.com and keep showing up to meetups, do a little chit chat here and there, not a lot, but a little.<p>Eventually people started recognizing me as a regular and I got to know people well enough that they started being friendly to me and asking me to do things outside of meetups.<p>It also helped that I&#x27;m generally a friendly person, albeit somewhat quiet.<p>So I just made a consistent effort to keep going to these meetups for a period of two years, and I now know more people than I can keep track of, and made several pretty close friends out of it.