想找闺蜜吗？用"大黄蜂"吧
Would YOU use an app to find new friends? Bumble adds 'platonic-only' button that lets women scroll for gal pals
You can now swipe your way to a BFF after dating app Bumble announced it has released a function that allows users to look for friends as well as lovers.
最近,一个名为"大黄蜂"的手机App出台了新功能——用户只消用手指一滑,就可以找到恋爱对象和朋友.
The app, which was launched by a group of former Tinder employees in December 2014, previously enabled women to approach men - but not the other-way around - for potential dates...but has now added a similar function for finding new friends.
这款手机应用诞生于2014年12月.它的设计者们曾在另一交友应用Tinder工作过.之前,女性可以用这款应用认识男性,反过来则不行.如今,设计者们给它加入了交友的新功能.
Bumble's founder, Whitney Wolfe, 26, has extended the app's dating function to allow users to adopt the 'friend mode', meaning you can swipe right on pictures of anyone you'd like to be gal pals with.
现年26岁的"大黄蜂"创始人惠特尼·沃尔夫将App原有的约会功能加以拓展.使用者可以采用"朋友模式".在此模式下,如果遇到感兴趣的人,你只要将对方的照片向右滑动就可以相互认识啦.
Bumble, which has more than 500,000 users in the UK, was designed to appeal to women in response to Tinder which its creators believe is full of 'creepy guys' and 'cheesy pickup lines'.
在英国,"大黄蜂"拥有的用户超过了五十万.其设计者认为,Tinder上充斥着各种"变态的家伙"和"厚颜无耻的搭讪".而"大黄蜂"改进了这一点,目的是吸引更多女性朋友.
The app instead allows women to message men first and its creators claim its female-freindly approach makes it safer and users are 'will never receive unwanted messages'.
