The benefit: The Houseparty app draws on your personal contact lists (from your phone as well as from Facebook and Snapchat) to help you create a network of friends on the app. Need some more ideas for fun virtual nights with your friends? We've got plenty of tips on how to get the remote party started in our guides to the best online trivia games, online drinking games and online party games. If your friends are “in the house,” you can chat them up one on one-or you can gather a group in a room to talk or play online games with friends, either locking that room’s door or leaving it open for new people to walk in and join you. So what’s the appeal of the Houseparty app, and what are the potential downsides? As its name suggests, the app is basically a virtual version of a massive get-together. ( Houseparty has already hit #1 in the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain.) If you don’t have it already, chances are good that someone you know will invite you to join it soon. Today, Houseparty is one of the iOS Store’s most downloaded free apps in the United States.

The video-chatting app, which makes it easy for as many as eight people to share a virtual hang, has been around since 2016, but for obvious reasons, its popularity surged during the Covid-19 lockdown.

All of a sudden, the Houseparty App is everywhere.

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