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Americans are turning to dating apps to find friends

FOX News

Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. You might consider trying a dating app. That's what 26-year-old Gaby Deimeke did after she moved to Austin, Texas, in 2019. After hearing about Bumble BFF at a music festival, Deimeke download the app and gave it a try.


Can we be friends? Dating apps say sex isn't everything in a post-pandemic world

The Japan Times

I've just come out of a long-term lockdown. Instead, they crave the friendships and social groups they have been starved of over the past year. That's the verdict of dating apps such as Tinder and Bumble, which are launching or acquiring new services focused entirely on making and maintaining friends. "There's a really interesting trend that has been taking place in the connection space, which is this desire to have platonic relationships," said Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd. "People are seeking friendship in ways they would have only done offline before the pandemic."