Friendsy: School Edition Tinder+yik Yak

Absrtact: Friendsy was founded by two young men who met at the Princeton freshmen's baseball game last January and raised more than 7,000 dollars on Indiegogo. As at the outset of Facebook, it accepts only the. edu tail, which is the user of the school mailbox registration

Friendsy was founded by two young lads who met at the Princeton freshmen's baseball game last January and raised more than 7,000 dollars on Indiegogo. As with Facebook, it only accepts a. edu tail, which is the user of a school mailbox registry. But they are not the retro version of Facebook, but the social application of strangers in school, and can be understood as Tinder+yik Yak.

Tinder's most typical scenario is to look at a stranger's photos and decide whether to date them. Here Friendsy feature refinement, if you see the school or calibration's sister/man photos not to the point of "date" date, you can also choose "friend" to make friends or "hook up" first to hook up. In addition to the typical scenes of Tinder, friendsy the typical scene of secret or YikYak also moved to the campus, adding an anonymous spit irrigation area. There is also recently a new feature called ChitChat, which helps users chat randomly with people online.

Campus accosted This just need is also friendsy aimed at, dare not go directly to the user can be approached by the LBS function to complete hooking up. There is also an interesting "hint" hint feature, when you receive a hint, you will only see the "Harvard Level 12 computer department There is a handsome man interested in you", and will not show the sender's name, if the recipient is interested, can give positive feedback, to obtain more accurate information Can not help but remind people that Renren has launched the "Secret Love" function, due to the operation of some complex causes a large number of users "secret love" failure to become bright love.

Friendsy in the classification of more meticulous, because some students may be more conservative choice of friends. For example, users can filter by school, sex, age, professional or community, or they can choose to be found only by their alumni. Its "high purity" may be one of the reasons for the popularity of student users. Launched in May 2013, the rapid sweep of 40 universities, the user increased to 24000 people. This Monday, officially expanded to 1600 universities across the United States, two days to add 12,000 new users.

Think of the secret that once red-hot now plummeted and the Yik Yak of the recent scandal, perhaps using the campus mailbox this way more conducive to restricting the user's bad behavior. But another issue that Friendsy needs to consider is whether they will face a lot of user churn when students graduate in batches, but on the other hand there will be new entrants. For those who have just graduated, they may need purposeful socializing once they are out of the highly geographically concentrated environment of the campus, but the alumni circle still has some value.

Just 3.15 days ago, Facebook updated its user behavior standards, one of which was about whether users had to use the rules of the real name, play a word game, and define the real name as "people want to continue using the name", not the ID or driver's license. Online real-name social networking, probably only on campus to find it. However, think of your next pick-up object may be once you hung up the physics teacher, is also drunk.