Meeting Support Institute

It is my impression that going to the same conference of the same organisation for five years starts a decrease in the amount of useful contacts, also known as networking. Meeting new people is crucial for humans to flourish both personal and professional. Of course some of those new connections will result in long term friendships and other will be merely brief professional connections. Many will be temporary and so a constant flow of new people is needed to keep our network alive. hat I have come to see is that because you start to know so many people in an organisation like an association that these existing connections start to be in the way of new ones. The simple reason is that you are constantly talking to the old friends and therefore miss the potential new friend that is passing by. Can we do research on how the quality of networking evolves over time?