You might be looking for a lunch break hook up, a long term friends with benefits situation, or even love – but did you know you can also use dating apps to meet your new BFF? It’s true!

Via Reuters:

Amorous entanglements aren’t uppermost in the minds of many people emerging from long periods of pandemic isolation. Instead, they crave the friendships and social groups they have been starved of over the past year.

“There’s a really interesting trend that has been taking place in the connection space, which is this desire to have platonic relationships,” said dating app CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd.

“People are seeking friendship in ways they would have only done offline before the pandemic.”

So – looking for a new pal with whom you could hit happy hour go on a backpacking trip, no funny business allowed? You can find that online too. (And PS – just cause you hook up doesn’t mean you can’t be friends afterward too ;))