It's not so far between you and me

a lot of recent , Mobile-based location-based strangers dating applications. For all of these applications, I'm most interested in how to get two strangers in the same place to interact, and to keep the interaction going well. I have always felt that I do not have the need to make friends with the surrounding strangers, and that in the country with implicit and introverted culture, most people do not have the need to make friends with strangers around.

However, after looking at a few products, I changed the concept, found that through some ingenious design, this demand can be stimulated. Let's take a look at the magic, friends, several meters, and float a few products for example, to see how strangers make friends with each other to start interaction between strangers.

1. Provide public space by opening

If you talk to someone around you, you don't know who to choose and what to talk about, but when you talk, the problem becomes simple. A bit like the "micro-blog wall" used to do activities now, a group of people you don't have, but in the same place, there will always be a lot of common topics. Of course, the current social product is not up to this high density.

Through group chat, you can find the chat object that you are interested in, and then gradually transition to private chat, this is more than directly to find his/her private chat, whether for the initiator or receiver, are more easily acceptable.

A few meters of product design is to take this idea. It provides a group chat interface, dynamic display around the other users, forming 15 to 20 people around the chat group. Users can also initiate private chat, private chat records will be saved, if the next time the user login, the system will promptly notify you to ensure that this communication can continue.

2, rely on information

The logic of information is that if you have a basic understanding of a stranger, such as hobbies, careers, age, etc., it is easier to start chatting on this basis. Drift Letter and Magic fruit Two products are relying on information, but the practice is not the same.

The drift is through the display of information posted by your peripheral users, such as around 10 published information, you can choose to be interested in, view, and communicate with each other. This is a very high demand for information itself, and it is very appealing information that allows users to create ideas that interact with them, but at least it provides a topic for user interaction. In addition, the float letter products also encourage users to fill in such as graduation institutions, home and other personal information to facilitate the reference when making friends.

Compared to the drift, the magic of the practice to be clever, it by binding Renren or micro-blog content (only support Renren or Weibo account login), to obtain the relevant information about the user. Before you choose to chat with someone, look at what he or she does on other social networks before you start chatting. In addition to the use of third party communities, the magic fruit is also in the product set a virtual object "Magic", if you want to chat with someone, you can send a magic fruit, two people meet collision mobile phone can also hit three magic fruit, with this virtual product to promote user interaction.

3, rely on the image

Compared to group chat and information, the image is the simplest and direct. Although he/she is a stranger, if he/she is a handsome or beautiful woman, you are likely to be willing to chat with him/her. But I think, this kind of product should have certain age or crowd limit.

Friends and Canada fall into this category. The main interface of the friend is composed of the big head of the surrounding user, you can choose the object that you want to chat accordingly. Users can also interact through a variety of gestures (such as poking), giving gifts, and praising photos. This is similar to the early 51.com, personally think may be more suitable for teens and three or four-line cities, friends plus also first selected MTK platform to promote. The benefits of such products are likely to explode on a large scale, but the next operation may need to be grasped. The company has already launched iOS and Android versions.

The three categories mentioned above are only a small part of mobile social networking, and we will continue to pay close attention to it, as products are being rolled out.