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The new social networking app exclusively designed for college campuses

(10/25/14 5:38am)

Colleges are hot spots for social media and networking. New social networking applications and platforms foster new friendships and allow people, in a diverse community of individuals, to interact with as many members of their community, at least in theory. Personally I appreciate and support the idea of such a framework. Facilitating people to go beyond their existing social circles to discover and identify with new people in college is most certainly a great endeavor. Friendsy, developed by two Princeton students Mike Pinsky and Vaidhy Murthi, is a 2013 innovation that seeks to fill this unique niche in higher education social media. Every other week, I will explore an innovative application to highlight some of the most intriguing developments in tech.