Originally Posted: March 9, 2016
NEW YORK — Whitney Wolfe is just 26 years old, and she’s been crazy busy. Since finishing college, she’s lived in six cities and started two companies.
Making friends has not been at the top of her mind.
“I literally have no friends,” she told The Huffington Post recently, by way of explaining why she’s now pitching a new friend-making feature on Bumble, the feminist dating app she founded last year. It’s called BFF, and essentially lets you hook up with potential besties by swiping right and left, according to your whims.
American women are waiting longer than ever to get married — the average age of first marriage for women in the U.S. is 27, up from 20 in 1960. That means friends are the new husbands — increasingly important for support, connection, fun, and everyday stuff like helping you move or making sure you don’t die alone in your apartment when you have the flu. READ MORE