I tried the new 'Tinder for BFFs' - here's what happened when I swiped right for friendship

All my life, I've met most of my close friends through school, but now that college is over and I transplanted to Brooklyn from Maryland, making friends outside work isn't so easy.

My experience is apparently not unusual and was the inspiration for a new app called Hey! Vina, which recently launched this year in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Dubbed the "Tinder for female BFFs," it hopes to make it easier for women to find platonic friends. 

Meeting friends online is nothing new - internet friends have been connecting IRL since the dawn of chat forums - but it seems as though it's becoming more normalized among younger folks. According to a recent Pew study, 57% of all American teens have met a new friend online.

So I figured "what the heck" and decided to give Hey! Vina a whirl.