Anime conventions and socializing

As I understand it, anime conventions are HUGE. Like 40K attendees. dcseain tells me that there aren't any medium-sized or small (1500 attendees and under) anime conventions.

So, how does the social side work? I hear complaints from sf fans about not being able to find or get enough time with their friends at 5K Worldcons, but this is partly a result of having a lot of friends in fandom because of smaller conventions.

Do anime congoers mostly hang out with the people they came with? See it as more a convention going (program track and dealers room) experience than a place to see friends? Have subfandoms that make socializing easy? Something else?

Anime conventions and socializing

As I understand it, anime conventions are HUGE. Like 40K attendees. dcseain tells me that there aren't any medium-sized or small (1500 attendees and under) anime conventions.

So, how does the social side work? I hear complaints from sf fans about not being able to find or get enough time with their friends at 5K Worldcons, but this is partly a result of having a lot of friends in fandom because of smaller conventions.

Do anime congoers mostly hang out with the people they came with? See it as more a convention going (program track and dealers room) experience than a place to see friends? Have subfandoms that make socializing easy? Something else?

Living through a revolution (newspapers)

“You’re gonna miss us when we’re gone!” has never been much of a business model.

“If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” The answer is: Nothing will work, but everything might. Now is the time for experiments, lots and lots of experiments, each of which will seem as minor at launch as craigslist did, as Wikipedia did, as octavo volumes did.

Link thanks to supergee.

Living through a revolution (newspapers)

“You’re gonna miss us when we’re gone!” has never been much of a business model.

“If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” The answer is: Nothing will work, but everything might. Now is the time for experiments, lots and lots of experiments, each of which will seem as minor at launch as craigslist did, as Wikipedia did, as octavo volumes did.

Link thanks to supergee.