The top applications to make new friends

It is therefore normal for young people to offer their unpublished solutions themselves. This is the case of MyPal, a new application created by 4 young Bordeaux. She will soon be out exclusively in Bordeaux to start. Loris, at the head of the start-up, summed up the objective in the newspaper South West : “Revolutionizing the world of evenings while improving social relations”. People can offer evenings of all kinds. Whoever offers can choose to be paid or not. To party, to fight against student precariousness, to meet new people, to be safe: these are arguments that resonate among young people.

Social networks: the success of applications to make friends

1 in 5 French people remains faced with chronic loneliness according to Ifop, an observation higher than that measured before the start of the health crisis. Today, 9.5 million French people are now in this chronic solitude against 6.5 million before the health crisis. 28 % of people under the age of 25 are affected. This percentage decreases when age increases it, until 9 % for 75 and over.

The Tinder of Friendship

After the successes of Tinder, Grindr, Happn or Fruitz, it is the turn of friendly meeting applications to be on the scene. One of the first to have exploited the vein is the American Meetup application, created in 2002. Today it has 58 million members and is present in 193 countries. The principle is simple, you are looking for groups that share your interests and you join them. So you can meet people at events related to your passions.

The applications of the genre therefore multiplied like We3, Patook or twenty. Most borrowed the principle of Tinder, hence the need for new applications to be innovative. This is the case of clubhouse which aims to collect people only by using the voice. Objective: to break the superficial barriers based on the physical. During confinement, other applications like Oneroof were created. It allows you to get closer to its neighbors. One of the few advantages of the health crisis.

Young people are the most concerned

The Foundation of France explains this social isolation by a chain of events which sometimes start from childhood. Responsible factors are often “the departure of the parental home, the lack of romantic relationship, poor housing conditions or means of transport and poor health”. The director of the Foundation of France Axelle Davezac had declared to France Info that: the health crisis “has created an extremely strong rocking, loss of confidence and fairly considerable psychological damage” in those under 30.

It is therefore normal for young people to offer their unpublished solutions themselves. This is the case of MyPal, a new application created by 4 young Bordeaux. She will soon be out exclusively in Bordeaux to start. Loris, at the head of the start-up, summed up the objective in the newspaper South West : “Revolutionizing the world of evenings while improving social relations”. People can offer evenings of all kinds. Whoever offers can choose to be paid or not. To party, to fight against student precariousness, to meet new people, to be safe: these are arguments that resonate among young people.

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The top applications to make new friends

You want to practice fun, cultural or unusual activities, but your friends don’t always follow you ? Friendly dating applications will probably be your solution. It is not only a question of meeting people, but of making friends around activities and common passions.

The principle of friendly dating applications remains the same: you create outings and events (free or paid) and you offer them to all users and those who are interested can register. If you are interested in activities organized by other users, just click on participate and voila ! It is not more complicated than that and it allows you to get out of your daily life, to practice activities that you like and to also meet new friends around a common point. Of course, you need to create an account to integrate the community.

All these applications are free and available for download for Android and iOS. They therefore have the same main features, but they are far from all resemblance. Some are more ergonomic than others, incorporate messaging modules, or have more the appearance of dating applications than friendly meetings. So we have selected the 4 best applications of the moment, just to enlighten you a little on this new way of making friends.

Yepn’go

Yepn’go is one of the most popular friendly dating applications. Yepppers, community members, can organize outings accessible to all other members or only with their group of friends. It is possible to send messages to the other Yeppers, write comments on an outing and put a note on the outing and its organizer. The interface is simple, but not always easy to handle when you do not know how to add someone to their list of friends for example.

Frimake

Frimake is also an organization of outings with friends, which has a more modern and more intuitive interface. You will find there the essential features to organize and participate in outings. Note that it is possible to put an outing in your favorites to make your decision later. Communication tools are obviously present and you have the possibility of organizing evenings accessible to the whole community or only to your list of friends.

Knockk

Knockk also takes up the principle of organizing outings for friendly meetings, but it presents a more fun interface and centered on a map. Indeed, all these applications allow you to geolocate yourself to offer you outings close to you, but always in the form of a list. Knockk presents a cartography system to better visualize the place of events and better identify what type of outing it is thanks to explicit icons. Whether you like graphics or not, they make it possible to better distinguish cultural outings, evenings in a bar, sporting events, etc. We will note, however, that Knockk has some limitations in its free version, while other applications finance with advertising. To send messages and requests for unlimited friends, you must subscribe to a premium subscription.

Meetup

Meetup is a little exceptional in this top of the best friendly meetings applications, because Meetup does not only offer to make friends around common passions, but this application also offers outings on professional themes. You will also find sports outings, but you will also see conferences to boost your career and meetings to fuel your network. And it is also felt in the way of participating in an exit. Indeed, to participate in an outing, you must “join a group” on the theme of the event, and when the organizer will create another release on this theme, you will be alerted. Another difference, Meetup is available in mobile application for Android and iOS but also online service, accessible from your web browser.

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