[Review] Girlfriend Social
I see a lot of posts on Reddit asking other people how to meet and make friends as an adult because, letâs be honest, making new friends after high school or college becomes pretty difficult. And it becomes even more difficult if you have recently moved.
Background: I graduated college a few years ago, and then moved to a new city. A huge majority (like 99%) of my colleagues are significantly older than I am. The remaining 1% either work in other units and I do not get much interaction with them, or it became very obvious early on that being friends was not an option.
One day, I got fed up with being bored and lonely (my boyfriend and I work opposite schedules, unfortunately) and decided that I was going to meet some new people, dammit, no matter how awkward and forced it might be. I began thinking, âThere are a bunch of dating websites, there has to be friend websites!â
So, I googled it. I literally typed âfriendship websiteâ into the browser. I am not sure why I had never thought of it before.
I found this website, where it mentions Girlfriend Social. I decided to give it a try since an actual news org had decided to look into and found it to be not sketchy.
I signed up, made an account, and starting using the websiteâs search and match features. And for a long while, I didnât get very many results.
However, just a month ago, I found 3 lovely ladies who were in my area and also looking for friendship. We all had reasons why we didnât have many friends (one just got back from Afghanistan, another works from home, a third just moved to town). I have met two of the women (one lady and I have some great compatibility - seriously - your dissertation uses STS methodologies and you also powerlift?! Amazing!) and I will meet the 3rd this weekend.
Now, to the actual Pros and Cons
Allows you to list your actual city
Has pre-formatted hobbies so you donât have to think too hard
Everyone has been super nice so far
Doesnât allow for much creativity in describing yourself
The people on the site donât have very good estimations of distances - We may live on the same side of the state, but I am not on this website to make friends with people 2.5 hours away
Not a bunch of traffic, so it took a long time and there may not be a lot of women in your area
First meet-ups still feel a little like first dates
While you can list your actual city, the search algorithm is by the closest major city to you. Also, I do not know what they define as major. I live in my stateâs capital and it was not listed.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. I highly recommend the site if you feel like you could add to your social life, as there really isnât much lose! I have recommend this site to a few people through my blog and other women have also found new people to meet!
