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Florida-based app combines chat, photo sharing, privacy for group messaging

A new Florida-based social media application focused on group interaction launched today.

Klique, founded in Naples, is a photo sharing and chat messaging social network that revolves around small, close-knit groups of friends.

Chris Franco, Klique’s co-founder and chief marketing officer, said this is the first social app with the goal of perfecting the group social experience.

Klique allows groups of up to six friends to chat and share photos within the privacy of their group or publicly with their followers. Each group will have its own name, and its followers will see photos and comments on a feed similar to Instagram.

“We all have our group identities, but there’s no real outlet for that in social media,” Franco said. Rachel Leeman, a 21-year-old UF biochemistry senior, said she could see her group of friends using the app.

“I like the idea that you can be in your own private group,” she said. “You can share things with a select amount of people and see what everyone says about it.”

Talia Medina, a 21-year-old UF telecommunication senior and the campus ambassador for Klique, said the app allows users to control who sees their media.

“You can either be public or private,” she said. “If it’s public, it gets posted. You can see stuff that I’ve posted and stuff my Klique has posted.”

With features like group-to-group messaging, Franco said the app is designed to connect people with similar interests.

“Talking to someone on a social network one-on-one is kind of weird and awkward, but with this it’s almost like you have a social wingman,” he said. “In real life, if you were with a group of your friends and you went up and started talking to another group of friends, it’d be so much more comfortable and normal.”

[A version of this story ran on page 4 on 2/11/2014 under the headline "App combines chat, photo sharing, privacy for group messaging"]

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