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- Best For Finding Group Events: Meetup
- If You're New In The Neighborhood: Nextdoor
- Friends Before Lovers: Bumble BFF
- For More Of A Social Media Experience: MeetMe
- To Find People With Common Interests: Hey! VINA
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It's easier than ever to find local people online to hang out with in real life. The apps below are some of the best for finding potential friends, and hopefully you can make some meaningful connections along the way.
Want to meet people who share similar interests? Meetup is a great app to do that. It allows you to look at groups others have created near you centered around an activity. You can join a meetup and you have the ability to chat with others who have joined.
If you prefer meeting people in groups rather than one-on-one, this is a perfect app. You can also create your own group if you have an idea for a meetup.
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If you've recently moved somewhere new, Nextdoor can help you meet your neighbors and form bonds with the people you live by. This app has a lot of features that can help you find others with common interests, ask questions about the neighborhood, and find events near you.
When you make a post, people in your surrounding area will see it, making it easy to connect and stay updated on local happenings.
Nextdoor also has a group section where you can find or create groups based on a common interest. Many places have friendship groups you can seek out to start meeting new people.
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You may know of Bumble as the dating app where women make the first move, but it actually has a whole separate section as well for making new friends, called Bumble BFF.
You can find this within the Bumble app, and it works similarly by swiping left or right to match with another person. If both of you match, you can then begin talking.
Unlike the dating app, there are no restrictions for who can start a conversation first, but you have to message the other person within 24 hours, or else you'll lose the match. It's a great app if you want a quick and easy way to make some new friends.
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MeetMe is an app where you can find people near you, chat one-on-one, and find some new friends. This app is unique in that it has more of a typical social media feel, where you can make posts as well as like and comment on others' posts.
There is also a live stream feature where you can go live and people in your area on the app can watch if they choose to.
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This app was originally created for women to find other women to make friends with nearby, but anybody can use this app to look for friends in your area. It has you create your own profile, and is similar to dating apps where you swipe left or right to match with someone else.
If you match, you can direct message one another through the app. If you want to create a group to hang out with, you can also create what are called "plans" in the app to make a meet up group.
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The Meet Group, Inc. (formerly MeetMe) owns several dating app networking services including MeetMe, hi5, LOVOO, Growlr, Skout, and Tagged. The company has offices in New Hope, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dresden, and Berlin.
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