Willow is a new social platform that places an emphasis on personality and conversation, and tries to replicate how friendships and connections are made in real life. For anyone who’s familiar with Tinder, you’ll recognize Weave’s mechanism for choosing who you’d like to meet. Users are shown a potential connection’s professional history from LinkedIn, and you simply swipe right if you’re interested in connecting, or left if you’d rather not.

Weave is like Tinder for professional networking, or a less spammy take on Linkedin. Unlike Yik Yak and Ask.fm, which have a pretty terrible reputation for facilitating cyber bullying, claims to have an older (and hopefully more mature) demographic of users. It’s a new question-and-answer style social networking platform that encourages users to make friends through asking and answering questions. , the new social network that was previously Formspring, claims to have five million regular visitors. MORE: 12 Brilliant Apps That Make Wedding Planning a Breeze Keep scrolling for the eight recently released social media apps you’ll enjoy using, for everything from voicing your opinion, to making professional connections, and, of course, connecting with new friends. It seems like every week some entrepreneur somewhere is launching a new app, so to save you the effort–and the download fees–we’ve handpicked the best new social media apps that are worth trying now.

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