A method for facilitating social discovery includes: obtaining, by a first device associated with a first user, device information associated with at least a second device from the second device; transmitting the device information associated with the second device to a social discovery platform; receiving, from the social discovery platform, user information associated with a second user of the second device in response to the device information associated with the second device; and displaying, to the first user, the user information associated with the second user.