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Meet new friends with fring Playgrounds

James Thornton

James Thornton

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fring has launched a new service for people to video chat with complete strangers on their mobile phone.

The mobile chat app’s new feature is called Playgrounds and lets fring users create group video chats based around their areas of interest, with friends as well as like-minded strangers. The new social service is designed to help users expand their fring contacts by meeting people they might get along with face-to-face.

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Playgrounds sounds like a great idea in principle, and could be a fun way of bringing people together. However, you only have to look at what happened to Chat Roulette to see how well-meaning video chat meet-up services can quickly attract the darker, seedier side of society. It will be interesting to see how fring manages to police this kind of potential abuse.

Playgrounds is now available as an in-app feature if you download the latest versions of fring for iOS and Android. Let’s hope the world’s smartphone users are able to keep their pants on…

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