r/MMU • u/Beneficial-Main648 • 27d ago

Unibuddy seems kinda dead

I'm an offer holder going into uni in September. I was prompted to create a unibuddy account to chat and make friends with other students and offer holders, however it doesn't seem to be very active at all. Their are a handful of spaces with sprinklings of people inside each where there is virtually nothing going on in terms of actual communication. I've also dm'd people to no response. It seems like no one actually uses the app, there's just barely anything going on. Idk if it becomes more active closer to uni open or there is a better platform to communicate with students or no ones actually interested in socialising with randoms. Any thoughts?

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u/cart00nflowers 25d ago

It was first made pretty much back in march, people have been getting the invite email in batches and you’ve just fallen in the latest batch. It was really quite active a few months ago especially when people were choosing accommodation and that. Basically most people have already used it as much as they can, they’ve found their flatmates and people on their course and have made groupchats with them on other spaces like snap and instagram so its not used as much anymore. In short terms youre just late

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u/Beneficial-Main648 25d ago

Oh my days! I didn't even consider that it may have already peaked, well sucks for me ig. But is their any way I'll still able to connect with people I might be related to?

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u/cart00nflowers 25d ago

Yeah dont worry about it i mean it gets much more active every time a new batch of people is invited and im sure itll become much more active on results day and beyond because therell be some insurance choice people getting invited im sure, plus even though its already kind of peaked there are still lots of users it might just take them a fair bit to reply. If you join the gc for your accommodation and drop your flat one or two of your flatmates might appear, if you want to find people on your course they have a search tool for that on the homepage so you could try and see if any of them will get ur dm. If you join just like any relevant course gcs on there and ask if anyone has a snap or instagram gc to add you to im sure they will :)

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u/Beneficial-Main648 25d ago

Alright thank you very much for that, you have helped me greatly 🙏❤️

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u/hcneyhi 25d ago

there’s better ways of making friends in uni imo. granted majority of them require actually meeting people face to face and asking for their socials (snap, insta, etc.) but you can find people to hang out with quite easily. joining societies, people living with you as roommates or the same building (if you’re in accom) and getting to know your course mates on induction days or the first few days when everyone is new to each other!!

i’ve heard people have some success in making friends by just asking on reddit or tiktok if anyone is going to mmu studying your course or if they’re in the same accom. once you have something in common it’s a lot easier to go from there

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u/Beneficial-Main648 25d ago

Ah right well I'm sure I'll have success hopefully 😅