Girl Power: Organising days and nights out for women through Facebook

Girls just don’t need a boy, they also want new friends to have a laugh with, says Paula Burns, as she checks out a Facebook page organising days and nights out for women.

Imagine you’re sitting on a Friday evening swiping away through Tinder, mostly to the left, when suddenly a girl pops up as a possible match. You re-check the settings to make sure that you have, in fact, set yourself up as a female looking for a bloke, when you realise, actually, that this girl is looking for friends.

Last year, Elva Carrie was bored trolling through the wastelands of online dating. There was a gig she fancied going to, but all her mates had plans, so with a little tweaking, she updated her profile and put an invite out there to the other single girls of Dublin. It was the best Tinder response she’d had yet, with over 100 girls making her a match overnight.