Because making a friend requires more than an app.
How come there’s not an app that’s successful at helping people making friends?
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#23Because all apps are doing is making people more transactional
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#24“The app says to tell you those are nice sunglasses.”
“The app says to tell you thanks and tell you my name is Steve.”
“The app says to tell you you’re welcome and that I was thinking about a pair like that myself and also my name is Bill.”
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bad advice IMO. One can make friends anywhere. If anything, I'd go to an activity, convention or event that peaks your interest.
OK, I facetiously say 'go to the pub' as a metaphor for just going outside and meeting people. ......Though being British, this usually involves us all going for a piss-up at some point or other. (Typical example: what's the point in going mountain bike riding if you don't all cycle past a pub on the way home?)
Ah fair enough.
Nice point about being British. Apparently, I only have that when I'm skiing :P
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#26I have made a few friends via Twitter, I think you social medias do a great job regarding to that as you can filter by communities and interests.
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#27I've made lifelong friends on IRC as well as ICQ/AIM. These apps don't really have any special features for making friends except a chat window.
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#28most people are selfish giant piles of shit. hard to find people worth befriending.
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#29Making friends is best accomplished while doing something else, not as the focused activity.
People often make friends with people that they work with, or play sports or games with, or do hobbies with, or take classes with, take shared transport with, or some other shared, repeated experience.
Dating services work, which is sort of similar, but a friendship service would be kind of weird. If you want to make friends, join a sports organization, take a class, meet with hobby groups, etc. Maybe your local parks organization has some classes that are more of fun activities to do. You can do online discussion groups etc, too. I made plenty of friends on IRC, and I still talk to a few of them.