Can Dating Apps Help Us Make More Friends Without Benefits?

Bumble is a dating app that is testing a new feature to help people find new friends. If the pilot works, this could open up a vast new use case for many apps that are currently focused on helping people make more romantic connections. It could also help provide another solution to combat the increasing global epidemic of loneliness.

The challenge, of course, will be how to get more people to adopt these tools and use them in this way. Just because there is a great tool available providing a necessary and valuable human service doesn't mean it will get adopted.