In these recent times, because of the coronavirus, people can’t find simply a simple hobby as usual.Nothing is as before. The app Houseparty has helped especially young people to enjoy time since the last quarantine .

But what is Houseparty?

It was  created in 2016 but its boom  was at the end of March 2020, recording 2 millions of users in a week. It is a new social network that allows to be in contact with people that you know. You can also make new friends, you can both video call and chat with them. The app can be downloaded on every type of devices. You can create a room in which you can talk with a maximum of ten people. Each time  your friends are online you will receive a notification. When you are in a room you can decide to block it and invite only the friends that you prefer or keep the room open and decide to let anyone that want to enter in it, exactly as a party. Someone that you don’t know could join the room, as long as he is a friend of one of your friends. Houseparty has got a lot of gadgets: from the karaoke to different mini games. The games are really different, there are general culture games, or you can draw, or you can play with UNO cards too.

Like all the internet platforms, Houseparty has got his dangers too. You have to know that the app can collect a lot of personal information, for example your geolocation. Sometimes the platform is used in an incorrect way, sharing acts of violence, cyberbullism and sexting.

However, we, in first person, are using this app. We can do a lot of things. Houseparty is helping us to feel nearer, it helps us  not to miss too many people that we care and it gives us a way to communicate being  distant that,nowadays, is an obligation.

 

Eva Accardo, Iole Rossi, III A classico.