What is your preferred way to meet someone?

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Friends, school and work is the most common way to meet someone I think, but for me this hasn't worked out, so I look for other ways.

Meetup.com has been pretty good so far, especially since I live in a large city. I haven't got any dates from that yet, but I've met a ton more people than anywhere else.

In principle I'd say I'd like to meet people through friends or just through everyday life. But I'm gay so I don't get the opportunity to meet many...compatible...guys through my daily routine. And I feel too awkward to ask friends if there's anyone they know that they think I'd get on well with. I have actually met someone at work/university that I'm interested in recently and I did get up the nerve to ask him out for coffee, but that was just before he was taking three weeks of vacation. We'll see if he actually is interested when he gets back... Mind you, he might not even have realized I was asking him on a date.

I have met several people through online dating sites previously. The best ones were simply disappointing. As for the other ones--well, there are several stories with that.

I've never actually met anyone anywhere in that capacity.

My dear old grandma, bless her heart, introduced me to one of the male nurses about 17 years ago. It never went anywhere past "hi how are you" but to be fair I'm pretty sure the guy was batting for the other team anyway. I don't think "gaydar" was something my grandma possessed.

I have neither friends nor coworkers. And the internet dating is coming up short on guys who actually want to meet. I'm lonely.

I can't actually say I have a "preferred" method. What I do know is that all of my relationships were online and we initially met via a common interest (though the first was via another friend, and the other two I met on the common interest at that point, an MMORPG). I note that none of them, I ever (initially) saw in terms of an actual romantic relationship. So perhaps I'm a bit different when compared to others.

Posting alot in message boards is the only thing that has ever worked for me.

dating in this century suck ass period and meeting people now is so dumb. i used to be better off years ago. but now it's stupid. texting is the worst part of messaging someone. humans expect to much for dating and it doesn't come pretty anymore. where was the old way of feelings being expressed on a date? doesn't that count to. doesn't your partner need to know how you feel about things and understand your emotional habits along with honesty?