With Addition of QR Codes, Path Moves Into Social Discovery Category

In what the company billed as a minor update to its mobile apps, Path today veered into social discovery by beginning to generate QR codes that let users connect with one another in person using their smartphones.

In what the company billed as a minor update to its mobile apps, Path today veered into social discovery by beginning to generate QR codes that let users connect with one another in person using their smartphones.

Rather than typing in each other’s names and narrowing down on the right profile, one user can simply produce the QR code for the other to scan. Scanning the code converts the two users into friends on the mobile-only social network.

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