Every Thursday, we bring you an app that\u2019ll make your life easier. This week, it\u2019s the turn of Google\u2019s latest friend-finding app, Who\u2019s Down.<\/p>\n
Organising a social outing is a pain in the bum, and Google knows it. Who\u2019s Down is their solution, and it\u2019s an interesting one: essentially, you toggle a switch that signals whether you are \u201d\u02dcdown\u2019 or not.<\/p>\n
If you are \u201d\u02dcdown\u2019, you\u2019ll be listed as active and willing to hang out with your friends. You can also specify what kinds of activities you\u2019re down for or write your own.<\/p>\n
Once you\u2019ve done all that, the app will let your friends who are up (sorry, \u201d\u02dcdown\u2019) for doing the same thing that you\u2019re ready to do and a chat will automatically start to sort out the logistics.<\/p>\n
While it sounds a bit silly \u201d\u201c why wouldn\u2019t you just call someone, like in the good old days?! \u201d\u201c Who\u2019s Down does have some great potential uses. For example, if you\u2019re trying to get a group of people together for a night down the pub, or a few people together to play Call of Duty <\/em>at the same time.<\/p>\n It\u2019s probably useless for more detailed events, but it sounds pretty perfect for organising impromptu social events.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a lot easier than firing up WhatsApp, asking if your friends are up (sorry, \u201d\u02dcdown\u2019) for doing something and receiving a million excuses in response.<\/p>\n We also like the idea of being able to flick a switch to tell people whether we can be bothered to do something or not, although we imagine people will probably ignore the switch and send you a text anyway.<\/p>\n At the moment, Who\u2019s Down is invite only. You can request an invite by downloading the app, but it means that it\u2019s currently very, very quiet. Unless you socialise in a tech-savvy crowd, it\u2019s probably going to be a while until you can use.<\/p>\n Still, if you\u2019re really desperate to use it, you could always encourage your friends to download it.<\/p>\n Download Who\u2019s Down on iTunes<\/a> | Download Who\u2019s Down on Google Play Store<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Remember to give our own surprisingly easy app a try too. It lets you get an instant price for your CDs, DVDs and Games just by scanning the barcode on the case!<\/p>\n Download musicMagpie on iTunes<\/a> | Download musicMagpie on Google Play Store<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every Thursday, we bring you an app that\u2019ll make your life easier. This week, it\u2019s the turn of Google\u2019s latest friend-finding app, Who\u2019s Down. What is it? Organising a social outing is a pain in the bum, and Google knows it. Who\u2019s Down is their solution, and it\u2019s an interesting …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[1558],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5053,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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