Beyond fear and treating the event as a competition, networking nights often leave those attending in the same comfort zone they arrived in: see a person you know, spend the majority of the night by their side, and meet a few newpeople but not nearly as many as you hoped had you decided to branch off early and look solo.
The peopleyoumeet on Elm Street agree that New Hampshire's size (41st among the 50 states) and small population (46th) make it ideally suited for this early primary process.
MyYearbook specializes in allowing users to meetnewpeople on the site instead of relying on the Facebook formula of befriending just the peopleyou already know in certain networks.