Fast Company reports on Happn, a new dating app from a French start-up that’s operational in major cities like Paris, London, Berlin, Barcelona and New York City and has now launched in San Francisco. Happn allows users to connect digitally with people they’ve encountered in the real world within a 275-yard radius. “Think of it like Tinder meets Craigslist missed connections,” the report states. But the “close physical proximity between users could raise concerns that things could inch toward stalker territory or at least result in harassment,” the report states, because, by default, Happn users are to list their job title and place of employment. However, it is possible to turn off geolocation.
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