Sentences with phrase «making social friends»

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JM: It's mainly been that we look at our userbase, we look at where they have the most friends, and that's mainly the function of what cities we're in, just because it's really about the social connections, so when we go to a city that has a lot of friends who are already using Hinge, it makes it a lot easier for us to get off the ground.

It's obviously geared towards having the chance of a romantic connection, but if it's not, then there's a great chance that it'll at least be a friend or someone that might be a good business connection or something, and so I think being geared towards just social discovery generally both makes it a more effective product and also there's still I feel like a little bit of a stigma associated with online dating, and this makes it just a much more accessible product.

I would argue that children who have «no friends» in school now have the opportunity to make friends online through Twitch, Twitter, and other social platforms.

«The correct way to make friends would be to get out and be more social and ask questions, and participate in things that you like, and just connect with people,» she says.

Remember last year's big news about the power of social connection: that friends could make you fatter, happier, and even sexier?

Not everyone has friends (or family) in high places, but it is important to look at the back - story and social proof of the core team, and make any interesting differences obvious to journalists.

We are making it easier to share picks on social media with friends, and the tool will award an extra point to participants who share their rosters.

In December, Etsy unveiled social networking functions similar to those of Facebook that allow users to make friends with other Etsy members and keep track of their friends» favorite shops and purchases.

Chinese buyers also differ from U.S. consumers by relying more heavily on word of mouth to make purchases, as well as social media and referrals from friends and family.

But there's a definite payoff to making real (not just professional or social media) friends.

That practice makes it nearly impossible to have a social life by planning future events with friends.

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I asked Dunbar what he made of social scientists» claims that people have fewer close friends today than they did years ago.

Choosing «friends» based on the assumption that they're like - minded is self - limiting, yet social platforms tend to make recommendations based on your set of interests and «likes.»

By booking her workout classes in advance, Dunnahoo - Kirsch is able to combine the commitment she makes with the social pressure from friends she works out with, into a powerful accountability hack for keeping her version of work - life balance in line.

Yet as online tools and social media make it easier to sell to friends, J. Hilburn and Pangea are among a growing number of young companies embracing the model as a more efficient way to build revenue, reduce overhead and inventory costs, and tap into loyal customers» networks of friends.

As the argument went, social networks and the internet in general have made it easier for extra-marital dalliances to happen, just as they've made it possible for people with oddball interests to connect and become friends.

Dalgaard added that Jobs2web is growing fast and «is disrupting the way companies can make social networks their friends in recruiting and not a distraction, helping hiring managers find people in ways they never could before.

Most people use Twitter to follow news events or hear what friends and industry experts have to say about things, but did you know you can also use the social networking site to make money in the market?

Although many different people can make millennials feel pressured to spend money they don't have — friends, significant others, family members, coworkers — the compulsion to overspend often stems from social anxiety.

Social networks are amazing at letting families and friends stay in touch with each other, and the filters on instagram make our photos look 100 % more beautiful — these are wonderful innovations.

Also, I've made some true friends through barre class — friends who may not be in my usual social circle, but whom I've grown to respect and enjoy spending time with.

Developers, in turn, created apps that became emblematic of the Facebook experience — apps such as Farmville, a farming simulation game played with friends on the social network, which was made by the gaming company Zynga.

Zuckerberg attempted to defend his reasoning, reminding Pallone that «the reason why we built the developer platform in the first place was because we thought it would be great if more experiences that people had could be more social» — and that to make those social interactions happen, «you need to be able to sign in to an app, bring some of your data, some of your friends» data, and that's what we built.»

«Following the re-audit... one of the recommendations we made was in the area of the ability to use friends data through social media,» the DPC spokesman told us.

To make matters worse, you won't be as available for social gatherings with friends.

Do they really want to leave their favorite social network after getting a recommendation from friends in order to make an inquiry with a business?

Facebook Inc. said it's making major changes to its flagship social network, shifting users» news feeds back toward posts from friends and family and away from businesses and media outlets — a transition that is likely to mean people spend less time on the site.

«Facebook made it easy for app developers to collect users» friends» data,» said Nick Soman, an entrepreneur who collected the locations of Facebook users» friends to enhance his social app LikeBright, which no longer exists.

It makes church - goers feel better when they read her (I know because my friends from church keep cheering for her on their social media!)

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

While struggling to make sense of the social and political milieu, he discovered an old friend from school who had recently converted to Catholicism.

A Facebook post, Instagram caption or series of tweets starts innocently enough, and suddenly your social media «friend» is ranting about Starbucks cups, burning bridges with their own family members or making problematic «observations» while sharing a local news story.

Too often women friends of mine have told me of incidents in Gestalt groups where they have made connections between their problems and the social system and been told to quit blaming outsiders for their problems.

My Facebook feed is constantly filled with links to the daily outrages — political, social, and religious — that preoccupy my friends, so it's not as if I need a ninety minute expose on Internet pornography to make me feel like the world around me is a darker, uglier place than the one I grew up in.

As he matures in his ability to make and keep friends Sam does not form a social network for himself, for it is essential to his identity that he is one who has lost family.

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Introverts and extroverts can (and should) be friends, but they'll each have to make an effort to spend time in each other's social worlds to some degree.

The first requirement in attracting new apostles is a holiness that appeals to the good and the noble of heart, because it makes friends of them, a friendship which is not merely social, but which derives from the touch of God within, draws further upwards to union and communion with God, and walks a common way with Christ and for Christ.

The new version of the social media's messenger app «Messenger Kids» will make it easier for children to safely video chat and message with family and friends when they can't be together in person.

Small groups draw individuals out of themselves, pull them out of their isolated personal lives, and put them in the presence of others where they can share their needs and concerns, make friends and become linked to wider social networks.

The best friends that capitalism has in this country today are the antitrust laws, the graduated income tax, the inheritance taxes, the social security program, and all the other legislation that has tempered the capitalist system, spread the wealth, provided for adequate public services, and created the great middle class that makes the American economy strong.

If my married friend were to insist on bringing his mistress to a dinner party, I'd be under tremendous social pressure to smile, shake her hand, and make her welcome, all of which would erode my defense against betraying the moral truth.

Appearing in human form for social events, community projects or blind dates suggested by friends made more sense — it was more productive and less isolating.

However, since my ministry role is focused on training and equipping pastors and churches, I use random social media connections to make new friends and learn.

Social media creates a world of constant comparisons, we're no longer just comparing ourselves with our friends and the people around us but we're now comparing ourselves with hundreds or even thousands of total strangers — some of whom make a career out of the things we can be jealous of, whether that's a dream job, a super models abs or a yoga teachers handstands.

For maybe... 3 weeks now I have done a huge clear in who I am following on social media because I realised I was following people who made me angry and I was not really interested in their life (including old friend from middle school or high school).

Put The Buena Vista Social Club on the stereo and invite over a few friends to make a weeknight trip to Cuba!

She has made lots of friends through social media and blogging.

I tried it out on a friend's grill a few weeks ago, and as social media will go, she Instagram - ed a photo of it, which led to two of her friends making it on visual suggestion alone, and then friends of that friend's too.