Friendsy Is Tinder & Facebook For College Student Only!!!

If you like to be ahead of the trends, Friendsy Is Tinder & Facebook For College Student Only created by Vaidhy Murti and Michael Pinsky,

College students themselves, Vaidhy Murti and Michael Pinsky took the social media App Friendsy back to the grassroots of how Tinder and Facebook got its start. They have created a safe zone for college students only.

If you want to chat with your friends, hook up or date, the Friendsy is the new trend, but only if you’re in college. The site is private and locked only to college students.

Pinsky explains:

“You walk around campus and have hundreds of acquaintances, people you say, ‘Hey, let’s get a meal to.’”

“But you never do.”

So he wanted to create a way to connect with his fellow students, but not only for himself, but for all students on campus. Before launching nationwide, Friendsy launched on about 40 campuses. In the two weeks since, its user base has doubled to more than 45,000.

If you’re looking for something better than Tinder or Facebook and only want to speak with people in your age group then Friendsy is it!

Friendsy is essentially Tinder meets vintage Facebook. You need a .edu email address to sign up. Everything you see on Friendsy is from college students. The founders, Vaidhy Murti and Michael Pinsky started the Friendsy at Princeton in 2013 and then evolved into a mobile app and moved to other campuses like Dartmouth.

Murti explains:

“As an interested venture capitalist put it, we’re trying to do to Tinder what Facebook did to Myspace…Make it exclusive and clean.”

The app allows users to swipe through profiles, swiping left to discard someone. But rather than simply swiping right to match with someone, users select if they want to friend, date or hook up with another college student. If they also want to, you match.

Pinsky and Murti said making the app available only to students with active .edu email addresses makes it unique from other apps. Even apps like YikYak that allow you to sort by campus aren’t exclusive to students at that college. Anyone in the general area of campus can post on it.

Friendsy is divided into three different categories: Friendship, Hook up or Date, so you know exactly why someone is on Friendsy and what they are trying to do.

65% of the matches on the site are friendship, but Friendsy helps to cover the grey areas that Tinder is missing with the swipe left, swipe right method of meeting.

The App is to be more on a real level and organic way to meet someone on your campus, without the hassle to attain a relationship with your classmates. The App is set for viral growth, so when you click on a friends profile it sends out alerts and invites to other people that are in college you know to join.

TechCrunch reports, you can filter profiles by school, gender, year, major or group. When you log on, you can decide to be seen only on your campus or on other campuses as well. So unlike Tinder, where you see everyone in your set radius, on Friendsy you can very specifically refine what profiles you view to the point where you can practically search for certain individuals.

The app also has a “hint” feature, where users can give hints to people they want to match with to increase their chances of being matched back. The app notifies users with the hints, which can be general, “Someone from your school wants to go on a date with you,” to more specific, “A guy from your school in the class of 2016 and Mechanical Engineering wants to go on a date with you.” If you get a general alert, you can request a more specific hint.

It also has a compliments feature that is pretty similar to a YikYak feed, where users can anonymously post about people and others can favorite the posts. However Pinsky said it’s very different from YikYak because it is closely monitored to only include positive comments about individuals. Despite the close monitoring, this feature seems to be the most risky because it would be possible for false information about specific individuals to be posted, and close monitoring will become more difficult as the app’s user base grows.

Basically, Friendsy could pose a real challenge to Tinder in attracting college students and has even evolved to include many features Tinder doesn’t have.

If you are already on Tinder, have Facebook and are board of being hit by older people, or non college students then GET Friendsy NOW and be part of history.