Slowly: the ‘penfriend’ app designed to make messaging more meaningful

Hongkongers Kevin Wong Ho-yin and JoJo Chan Sau-wun invented the app to slow down the pace at which we communicate, and 1.4 million users now make time to talk

JoJo Chan (left) and Kevin Wong, founders of the Slowly app, in Causeway Bay. Photo: Dickson Lee

Many of us have heard of the slow food move­ment, which has been gathering pace, in a manner of speaking, since gastronome Carlo Petrini protested the opening of fast-food chain McDonald’s in Rome’s Piazza di Spagna in 1986.

But slow digital messaging?

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