How being flakey might change your life?
Coming to college means a brand new change in scenery. New friends, a new city, and for some people (me!), a completely new country and culture. I had a tough time assimilating to the new way of life in the cute little town called Ann Arbor in my first semester on campus.
Go ahead and try anything and everything! This is when you explore! Your parents aren’t here to figure you out, you’re on your own! Go meet some new friends!
I’m sure everyone had somewhat of a similar sentiment when coming into college. Especially when you’re arriving at a school with such high achievers, I always think I have to make new friends and go to this meet and greet event every other day or else I’m missing out or falling behind.
All this was great, but these groups of people end up being categorized under what I call a “one-meet-wonder”. These are the people that I’ve met once but haven’t really connected with anywhere past the brief few minutes that we chatted about what classes we’re going to take next semester. Most of these contacts, are saved in my contact book with only the first name, or the Snapchat friend adds that still have that “Tap to chat” text beside their Bitmoji.
This is totally not their fault at all, but it all just comes down to unfortunate circumstances. And a fear of reaching out. Because maybe “Hey! Let’s go grab lunch or something” is too awkward and high commitment for me, and them too I guess? Or they just don’t care haha.
For the ones that I did develop a good connection with, and I do want to catch up with, I go ahead and text them and send a Google Calendar invite. I’m serious when I say I plan my life on that thing. But having to type their school email in on my end, and receiving an email on their side just always seemed wrong to me.
And that got me thinking, what if there was some kind of app, that allows friends to spontaneously send event invitations to all of their friends, acquaintances, connections. And all the other side needs to do is reciprocate that love with just a click of an Accept button on the Push.
Just come to that library push for finals, or that pickup basketball session you’re about to head to in 20 minutes?
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Let me introduce Push. The social media app that makes spontaneous hangouts frictionless…
How so, you might ask? Image Snapchat’s friends and group features and social undertone, meets Google Calendar’s utility and event-based scheduling?
I have to admit, I’m a pretty flakey guy. Sometimes I overbook myself and have to cancel some hangouts or shift some meetings. But when I do have time, I’d love to spend that with my friends. Here’s where I see Push being useful.
After the whole world shut down due to a global pandemic a year and a half ago, I want us to make genuine, real memories together. And not for another social media app creating a gallery of a snapshot of our lives through of idea of being “real” and “spontaneous”.
The magic of in-person hangouts never dies, and Push is here to revive that. Now go and push Skeeps (for my UMich folks), or whatever bar is near you with your friends!
