You would be wrong to do this.
Getting on a dating app to make friends when you have a boyfriend is inviting trouble into your relationship.
Though your intentions are pure, and you are solely motivated to make friends, it isn’t wise.
It doesn’t matter that you do everything in your power to have platonic relationships with whoever you connect with as a friend on a dating app.
As long as you are making friends on a dating app, your boyfriend is fearful that any guy you befriend on a dating app is a threat to his relationship with you.
This means that an innocuous text message from him to you or you to him, is readily misinterpreted by your boyfriend, and the next thing you know, he is fighting with you.
Accusations of cheating or infidelity fly.
You try to get him to see that there is nothing romantic going on between you and the new guy friend you made on a dating app, but to no avail.
As long as you use a dating app to meet friends, some of whom would be guys, your boyfriend is bound to look at your interaction with these so-called friends with suspicion.
There is a lingering fear that as long as you keep using dating apps to meet friends, you are destined to connect with a guy who is interested in more than friendship.
Unfortunately, this fear and suspicion makes your boyfriend a nervous wreck in his day to day life.
It puts him on edge.
This is reflected in his vacillating moods whenever he is hanging out with you.
Something as harmless as sitting together to watch a movie is fraught with tension, as he sits there wondering about when next you are logging into a dating app to talk to your new friend.
Inviting this tension into your relationship isn’t worth the risk.
There are much better platforms to find friends online.
One of those is Meetup.
Meetup caters to a variety of interests and hobbies.
What do you love as an interest or hobby?
There is a good chance that there is a Meetup group that serves that purpose.
These are people who have the same interest or hobby that you do.
It’s so much faster and better to make friends with people who have a similar interest or hobby that you do.
These are people you conduct conversations with online, and get to meet in person with the intention of participating in a shared interest or hobby.
Besides Meetup groups online, there are apps that are specifically designed to bring people together for friendships.
Look out for popular friendship apps such as, Yubo or LMK, among many others, that assist in connecting you with new friends.
Beyond this, social media facilitates in forming friendships.
Create a new social media account centered around an interest or hobby that you love.
Due to how much traffic social media sites generate, it won’t take long for you to attract people who have the same interest or hobby to your new social media account.
Promote your new social media page on the social media website it is being hosted on.
Promote it on different social media websites too.
Being the creator of the social media page puts you in a position to generate a lot of followers, given that people gravitate to those who lead and create.
Many of these followers are going to be great candidates for friendships.