Yahoo Groups

See, I belong to quite a few writing groups. Some, I find very interesting. Then there are the ones that just irritate me. Now, I understand all the people in the group basically have the same goal-to bring something different and new to the writing world or to at least make a difference, therefore, there is a bond between the people. BUT, what I hate about some of them is that, nothing that goes on in the group relates to writing. WTH? If it's a writing group, why not talk about writing? Seems reasonable to me. I just fail to see why people are having discussions on this person's latest conquest or this person's new beau. Pointless! Unless, all these are plots and/or topics to a new story. If not, why not just call the group "A group of writers who never discuss writing but instead discuss everything not related to writing"? I think that would be fair. At least people wouldn't be misled. JMO on the subject.