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Stupid headline, but a very interesting sounding application. Once it's available on Android (cough), I'll probably give it a try.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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A Clever App Designed to Make Strangers Into BFFs | Design | WIRED<\/a>
\n Created by MIT\u2019s Playful Systems Group, the app (now in beta testing) partners two people, who live as far away from each other as possible, in an anonymous digital pen pal scenario\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stupid headline, but a very interesting sounding application. Once it's available on Android (cough), I'll probably give it a try.\ufeff A Clever App Designed to Make Strangers Into BFFs | Design | WIRED Created by MIT\u2019s Playful Systems Group, the app (now in beta testing) partners two people, who live as far away from each … Continue reading “Mutual Glimpses through Anonymity”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130521,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/29\/we-lost-a-major-social-media-app-today.html","url_meta":{"origin":43158,"position":0},"title":"We lost a major social media app today","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-Apr-16 8:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"But, apparently, gained a major news app, as Twitter changes its category in the iOS App Store from \"social\" to \"news.\"It's an interesting move (and a demonstration of why only allowing a single category is unlikely to work well with complex Real World stuff). 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