Closeships

Closeships is a social media platform that combines the principle of a social network with real-life meetings. While you can search for people publicly in the app and send them messages, you have to meet them in real life to connect on the platform. To do this, Closeships is the first to use the functionality of NFC (Near Field Communication, connecting by holding smartphones together) in a social network. Closeships is designed to create a social impact and recreate social media - which is why users must also meet their connected contacts regularly in real life in order to remain friends on the platform. If a relationship is neglected for a longer period of time (50 days), it becomes inactive in the app and must be reconnected. As a result, you only maintain relationships on Closeships that are also present in real life - close relationships, in other words. And best of all, there are no likes, no filters, and no need to pretend to be somebody else. In addition, the Closeships app offers an interactive map in which (if desired) the last location of friends is displayed to en- courage meetups and activities. For this purpose, the app also suggests leisure activities and meetups - via an intelligent algorithm as well as editorially. In addition, users can create activities themselves and add them to the map to suggest them to other people and thus create a social impact themselves. The profile publicly displays the total number of meetings a user has caused. Like almost every social network, Closeships is free. Revenue is generated through the premium service Closeships+, which allows users to hide ads in the app and unlock additional benefits.