{"id":19665,"date":"2011-09-08T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=19665"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:57:06","slug":"meet-new-friends-with-fring-playgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/meet-new-friends-with-fring-playgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet new friends with fring Playgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>fring<\/strong> has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fring.com\/en\/?p=3081\"><strong>launched a new service<\/strong><\/a> for people to video chat with complete strangers on their mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile chat app&#8217;s new feature\u00a0is called <strong>Playgrounds<\/strong> and lets fring users create<a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/fring-trials-new-group-video-call-service\"><strong> group video chats<\/strong><\/a> based around their areas of interest, with friends as well as like-minded strangers. The new social service is designed to help users <strong>expand their fring contacts <\/strong>by meeting people they might get along with face-to-face.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-N7nP668y_Q[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/203879\/is_chatroulette_cleaning_up_its_xrated_act.html\"><strong>Chat Roulette<\/strong><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Playgrounds is now available as an in-app feature if you download the latest versions of fring for <a href=\"http:\/\/fring.en.softonic.com\/iphone\"><strong>iOS<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fring.en.softonic.com\/android\"><strong>Android<\/strong><\/a>. Let&#8217;s hope the world&#8217;s smartphone users are able to keep their pants on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fring has launched a new service for people to video chat with complete strangers on their mobile phone. The mobile chat app&#8217;s new feature\u00a0is 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/meet-new-friends-with-fring-playgrounds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet new friends with fring Playgrounds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2962],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-19665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfring"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334104,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665\/revisions\/334104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19665"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=19665"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=19665"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=19665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}