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Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by bitbuilder »

taude wrote: post #77
msoad wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is an "old people's thinking" perspective. Younger generation are way more open about their dating life than us. They openly talk about their dating life at work or friends group. They don't mind getting matched with a coworker or classmate.

I didn't think young people used the Facebook brand anymore? If all the stories that have been published about that are to be believed.

I have plenty of people in my extended friend group who are in their mid to late 20s, and most of them are still quite active on FB.

Nobody thinks it's cool or fun anymore, of course. But it's still the go-to spot for sharing life events, family news, anything you want to brag about really. Or any vacation pictures that you'd like grandma and grandpa to see.

IG is still image driven, so it's not a platform you can easily use for relaying text based information to your social network.

Re: Facebook Dating

#102

Post by torben-friis »

msoad wrote: post #49
estsauver wrote: post #16

I think this might be a (relatively) rare strategy error for Facebook. If the success of Snapchat, LinkedIn, and also the separate WhatsApp/Instagram properties proves anything, it's that there are very different faces of ourselves that we show to the professional world, to our friends, to partners, and to the world at large. If I was facebook, I would very explicitly announce this as a spin out project, under a diff…

I think this is an "old people's thinking" perspective. Younger generation are way more open about their dating life than us. They openly talk about their dating life at work or friends group. They don't mind getting matched with a coworker or classmate.

> They openly talk about their dating life at work or friends group. They don't mind getting matched with a coworker or classmate. reply

Coworkers and classmates aren't the problem. For young people, facebook is where mom and grandma is. Not that you're gonna match with them, but just sharing the name is a turn off.

Re: Facebook Dating

#103

Post by FillardMillmore »

msoad wrote: post #49
estsauver wrote: post #16

I think this might be a (relatively) rare strategy error for Facebook. If the success of Snapchat, LinkedIn, and also the separate WhatsApp/Instagram properties proves anything, it's that there are very different faces of ourselves that we show to the professional world, to our friends, to partners, and to the world at large. If I was facebook, I would very explicitly announce this as a spin out project, under a diff…

I think this is an "old people's thinking" perspective. Younger generation are way more open about their dating life than us. They openly talk about their dating life at work or friends group. They don't mind getting matched with a coworker or classmate.

It makes me wonder how sensitive generation Z is to privacy concerns. It would seem to me that there would be vast differences between that generation and say, Gen X and Boomers (who for a long time refused to share credit card numbers with e-commerce sites). Perhaps the true success of this feature will become apparent with the coming Generation(s), assuming Facebook manages to maintain its position as the premier social networking site.

Re: Facebook Dating

#104

Post by kgraves »

madrox wrote: post #79

Seeing something like this come out of Facebook makes me glad to be married. Is it a good idea for them? Yes. Will people use it? Probably. Is it a little creepy to imagine a company that’s already under constant scrutiny about how it handles your data to also know more about your dating life? Absolutely. That said, Facebook is already out with 20-somethings. Is this really going to used by that audience? Or is this…

They already own Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.

If they can't get them on FB, the features will trickle down towards the family of apps, maybe under a different app name or feature.

Re: Facebook Dating

#105

Post by mywittyname »

FillardMillmore wrote: post #103
msoad wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is an "old people's thinking" perspective. Younger generation are way more open about their dating life than us. They openly talk about their dating life at work or friends group. They don't mind getting matched with a coworker or classmate.

It makes me wonder how sensitive generation Z is to privacy concerns. It would seem to me that there would be vast differences between that generation and say, Gen X and Boomers (who for a long time refused to share credit card numbers with e-commerce sites). Perhaps the true success of this feature will become apparent with the coming Generation(s), assuming Facebook manages to maintain its position as the premier s…

I think they will be even more sensitive to privacy and understand better about wearing a different mask for different groups. They grew up with this understanding that FB was where their parents are, thus were conscious about curating their image. Likewise, I'm sure they will continue to treat other social media with the same scrutiny.

People in their 30s grew up in an era where FB allowed only college students. And they were old enough not to really care once it became open to their parents.

Re: Facebook Dating

#106

Post by yorwba »

kylel wrote: post #83
roland35 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree! It seemed like a no-brainer back around 2010 but now with all of the bad press it seems less desirable to put your dating life on Facebook.

This was a while ago, but I think in its early days Tinder was just an app on Facebook where you would “like” people on your friends list. If they “liked” you back the app would indicate a match. I always thought this was a really cool feature, and I wish they kept it. It felt more personal.

I think you mean https://www.reciprocity.io/ which is unrelated to Tinder.

Re: Facebook Dating

#108

Post by marcusjt »

defnmacro wrote: post #85

If I was an exec at Tinder what do you do here? There's nothing exactly that differentiates FB Dating from Tinder and I can't think of an USP differentiating the two, except that FB Dating may be more convenient. Kind of an interesting precedent though that FB decided to build this in-house rather than buy Tinder as well.

>There's nothing exactly that differentiates FB Dating from Tinder and I can't think of an USP differentiating the two, except that FB Dating may be more convenient.

I couldn't disagree more - Tinder shows you pretty much random people apart from some incredibly basic criteria (age, gender, proximity) whereas FB has the potential to be massively more effective at matching you given that it has a huge wealth of information (e.g. liked posts, pages, etc) to draw upon to select candidate matches to show you. It may naively assume that similarity is always good and that isn't necessarily true so hopefully their algorithm isn't so naive.

Either way, so FB's dating experience could completely destroy Tinder unless they get their ass in gear quickly and deliver a more more success-focused user experience, right now Tinder doesn't seem to care at all about match quality, nor eliminating fake & dormant profiles.

Re: Facebook Dating

#109

Post by SkyPuncher »

briandear wrote: post #84
smacktoward wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Literally the entire lesson of the social networking age is that it's not entirely your choice. If everyone you know is on Facebook, and everyone you want to date is on Facebook, all the events you want to attend are organized on Facebook, etc., you have very strong pressures on you to use Facebook, whether you want to or not.

Nonsense. Just don't use Facebook. Send email or use iMessage/Signal whatevs. If you are "left out" -- then those people probably cared about your involvement only superficially. As far as people you want to date -- how weird would it be to actually talk to the person? You'd stand out from the crowd specifically because you aren't like everybody else. Grow a spine.

Not using Facebook is fine for direct conversations. It really isn't an option in larger groups.

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Here's a great example. I go on a canoe weekend with a bunch of old friend each year. Some years it has an upwards of 100 people attending. I know about 10 to 20 people, including the hosts, very well. The rest are either acquaintances, second connections, or friends/family of the hosts.

Everything gets done via a Facebook event because it's the easiest way for the hosts to communicate with a group of 100 people. A few people "refuse" to use Facebook so all communication with them about the event has to be done on a secondary channel. Sometimes those people accidentally get left out of important notices. It's nothing malicious, just the hosts having jobs and busy lives and forget about a few odd ones out.

Re: Facebook Dating

#110

Post by SkyPuncher »

defnmacro wrote: post #85

If I was an exec at Tinder what do you do here? There's nothing exactly that differentiates FB Dating from Tinder and I can't think of an USP differentiating the two, except that FB Dating may be more convenient. Kind of an interesting precedent though that FB decided to build this in-house rather than buy Tinder as well.

I'd be blasting FB for the privacy issues and reinforcing Tinder as a privacy conscientious company (whether or not that's true, I'm not really sure).
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