There is a ‘find genuine friend’ feature in Kik. When turned on the app will match emails and numbers with contacts stored on the user’s smartphone before notifying the user and their friend.
Kik will blur images from unknown users or when users contact each other for the first time. Images can only be unblurred once both users have approved each other.
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