When Jen Hobbs moved to Oakland last summer, she assumed friendships would come naturally, at the coffee shop or after an exercise class. But six months in, she didn’t have any New Year’s Eve plans.
“I still didn’t have any friends,” said Hobbs, a 31-year-old Twitch streamer who works from home.
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She made it her resolution to fix that and downloaded every friendship app she had seen on Instagram. Services like Timeleft have upwards of three million users. DayOfUs is in 14 different international cities.
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