New app helps people make friends, not dates — really
Fights social awkwardness, 'loneliness epidemic'
There are apps to help you find parking spaces and apps to connect you with the perfect date, but now Brooklynites (and their fellow New Yorkers) have an app to help them create actual, old fashioned friendships.
On Thursday evening, CEO and co-founder Julian Ilson (his partner is CIO Emanuel Petre) traveled to Brooklyn to launch Me3 in New York City. Me3 (www.me3app.co) uses social science and machine learning to help both young and old adults find real friends — as opposed to dates. Ilson says the app is like “a super smart Tinder/OkCupid for friendships.”
Me3 eliminates the awkwardness of making new friends as an adult, Ilson says.