If you want a little more from your social network connections (like actual interaction), Highlight, an iOS app released today, will help facilitate real-world meetings with current and potential friends. Using GPS and a connection to your Facebook account, it lets you know when you come within a block and half of other Highlight users.
While random meetings with strangers may seem a little disturbing, the app alerts you to nearby Highlight users with which you have friends or interests in common with the hope of inspiring new real-world connections. According to its founder Paul Davison, Highlight was created to “help you meet new people, refresh your memory about people you’ve met before, and alert you to friends who could be lurking right around the corner.”
For making the outside as connected and friendly as social networks can be, Highlight could be a move in the right direction.
(Story and Image via Technologizer)
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