Ellis Says FriendsApp Is the Next Big Thing
Ellis Says FriendsApp Is the Next Big Thing
A 78-year-old Englishman has an ambitious prediction about the future of online friendship. And he's prepared to put his name to it.
Most people starting a technology business at 78 might be inclined to keep their ambitions modest.
Not Stephen Ellis.
The founder of FriendsApp, a worldwide platform helping strangers make new friends, believes he may have discovered something rather important.
Something that could become very big indeed.
And the extraordinary thing?
The idea is almost embarrassingly simple.
★ The Little App That Dared to Be Different
While much of the online relationship industry has embraced photographs, swiping, matching algorithms and increasingly sophisticated technology, FriendsApp has taken a different road.
It begins with a message.
People introduce themselves in their own words.
Others read those introductions, discover somebody interesting and decide whether to make contact.
No swiping through photographs.
No dating.
No artificial companions pretending to be people.
Just ordinary human beings who would welcome somebody new to talk to.
★ The Question Nobody Seems to Ask
What if we've been making friendship unnecessarily complicated?
Why should finding a new friend require people to compete for attention?
Why should an algorithm decide who might be interesting?
Why should a photograph be more important than what somebody actually says?
Ellis believes there is another way.
Instead of wondering whether somebody wants to make a new friend, you are starting with people who have already said that they do.
That is the idea at the heart of FriendsApp.
★ And People Are Responding
FriendsApp's early internal figures show that approximately four out of five conversations started have become two-way exchanges.
That doesn't mean every conversation becomes a friendship.
But it does suggest something important.
People aren't just looking.
They're responding to one another.
For a platform built around conversation rather than swiping, that is an encouraging beginning.
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★ At 78, Why Not Think Big?
Ellis is an Englishman living in Spain, but FriendsApp is a worldwide platform with a particularly strong following in the United States.
He believes there is an enormous appetite for something uncomplicated, friendly and human.
Not another social network.
Not another dating app.
Something different.
A place where friendship can begin with a simple introduction.
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★ Could FriendsApp Really Become the Next Big Thing?
That remains to be seen.
Every ambitious new business begins somewhere.
But Ellis is convinced that making friendship easier could be an idea with worldwide appeal.
And he has no intention of abandoning that conviction.
The technology introduces people.
The people decide what happens next.
Perhaps that is exactly how it should be.
Could FriendsApp really become the next big thing?
Ellis certainly believes so.
And he's inviting people everywhere to discover why.
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