Dating app Bumble has added a new feature to help build girl squads all over the world.

Today’s a day to celebrate women. And what better way to do that than by ditching whatever vacuous date you have planned and striking up a new friendship with another equally amazing and empowered female friend. If this task sounds a little challenging, an app is on hand to help.

Dating app Bumble has added another string to its bow with a feature devoted exclusively to finding platonic friends. In a similar style to its dating equivalent, you’ll see photos of same-sex nearby individuals who are also looking to make friends to, as the app puts it, "add to their squad.” Like the dating app, you’ll have 24 hours to start a conversation before the connection expires.

Dating apps are notoriously creepy at times. If you’ve never received a unwarranted dick pic, you’ve clearly not been on them for long enough

Bumble’s not new to championing female empowerment. The app puts all the control over messaging in the hands of its female users in order to combat the predatory nature of online dating.

After all, dating apps are notoriously creepy at times. If you’ve never received a unwarranted dick pic, you’ve clearly not be on them for long enough. The idea that they could now be used to make friends is definitely novel, but not completely absurd.

As the world become more and more global, and millennials continue to travel and relocate, friends have become a new form of family. Enabling friendship through apps like Bumble may just be the next evolution in our increasingly digitised, always-on culture.