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Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by rolltiide » Thu, Sep 05, 2019, 4:29 PM UTC

mabermoske wrote: post #138

If I look at who I know that is still using fb it is almost exclusively older people. I'm 33 and deleted my fb account, almost every person I know younger than me either did the same or was never on in the first place. I see this being huge for older adults who are divorced or widowed, those are the people still using fb and I think would be happy to use this service.

> I see this being huge for older adults who are divorced or widowed

Go to Facebook Marketplace and search for wedding dresses. It'll show you recently divorced females in your area. From there you can filter by size.

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Re: Facebook Dating

#182

Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet » Thu, Sep 05, 2019, 4:30 PM UTC

cameronbrown wrote: post #51

strikelaserclaw wrote: post #14

Finally, all the tracking they've done on their users over many years could yield the best matching algorithm :|

Dating sucks, but I'm still more uncomfortable with the idea of somebody's initial meeting being reduced to matching algorithms.

Just look at how poorly all the various recommendation systems out there work and be comforted by the fact that any such algorithm will be easily approximated with a random number generator.

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by sureste » Thu, Sep 05, 2019, 4:30 PM UTC

Off-topic, but the number of times people misspell Colombia as Columbia is very high and I'm (more) disappointed in FB for letting it pass.

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by simias » Thu, Sep 05, 2019, 4:31 PM UTC

hombre_fatal wrote: post #157

jessicalondon wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Willing to date 10 years younger, but only 5 years higher. Interesting.

Controversial in 2019, but youth is a perk if I get to choose with an "age range" slider. Also, women 35+ are usually on a different clock than I am. I'm happy to share more insight as a man dating at 30 if you want, but just ask.

This is veering wildly off topic but I'm curious: don't you think people in their early 20's would also be on a wildly "different clock"? I'm only slightly older than you are and through a weird series of event ended up frequenting a WhatsApp group populated mainly by people in their early 20s and the culture shock is pretty large.

People in their early 20's are generally students, they have different priorities, lower incomes, different cultural differences etc... It seems easier to find 40yo who share my interests and my lifestyle in my experience.

Re: Facebook Dating

#185

Post by rolltiide » Thu, Sep 05, 2019, 4:35 PM UTC

carlosdp wrote: post #67

So, I'd use this, as someone who has trouble getting matches on dating apps usually. Facebook already has the largest issue for dating apps solved: the network chicken-and-egg problem. Dating apps are non-exclusive, I have 3 installed on my phone and using an additional one isn't a big deal. If they are able to provide a differentiated feature set from other apps because they can better leverage FB interest data, I d…

> Facebook already has the largest issue for dating apps solved: the network chicken-and-egg problem. Dating apps are non-exclusive

wasn't the first feature on mobile dating apps to take in your facebook social graph?

Tinder had this 6 years ago? It would show you if you had mutual friends via your facebook social graph

maybe people didn't know that was because of their facebook connect?

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by calimac » Thu, Sep 05, 2019, 4:35 PM UTC

Facebook can't resist the trove of data and traffic the dating app will deliver.

Those intelligent enough to understand must lead the sheep to safety.

Facebook should be boycotted by everyone who understands their corporate culture well enough to know that they are a predatory data company.

Re: Facebook Dating

#187

Post by reaperducer » Thu, Sep 05, 2019, 4:35 PM UTC

passivepinetree wrote: post #177

jonnycomputer wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ad's photograph isn't targeted at older people.

That's a common mistake. Ads don't always (and you could argue rarely) show their target demographic. Easy example: ever seen an overweight person in a fast food commercial?

Ads don't always (and you could argue rarely) show their target demographic.

I see plenty of overweight people in ads for diabetes treatments. I see plenty of fit people in ads for workout machines. Right now I see an ad on the side of a bus encouraging people to get free STD testing, and it shows people dancing at a club.

There are aspirational ads, but the use of "rare" in your comment doesn't reflect reality.

Re: Facebook Dating

#188

Post by reaperducer » Thu, Sep 05, 2019, 4:35 PM UTC

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #146

wheelerwj wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 its almost like facebook doesn't understand privacy at all...

they understand it perfectly well.

They just don't care.

Re: Facebook Dating

#189

Post by nikolay » Thu, Sep 05, 2019, 4:36 PM UTC

All dating apps target millennials... because they are developed by millennials. When will SV get for once that they don't get their demographic as they have nothing in common with people 40+. For example, except Microsoft, no other SV company gets families. I was surprised by the idiotic family support Google offers in their ecosystem and especially Google One. Same with Spotify, Netflix, etc. Facebook with their "family" support of children less than 13 is totally idiotic as well (scrapbooks or whatever they call it) - and so is their "dating" app! They just don't innovate these days - they just copy competitors in sick hopes to make people come back.

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by beowulfey » Thu, Sep 05, 2019, 4:37 PM UTC

asdfman123 wrote: post #179

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…

> 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 I think Facebook's goal is to make it so that you have one persona you show to everyone. To me, that seems like a cultural thing unique to Silicon Valley that the rest of the world does not necessarily want. It seems like a mistake. If you have one persona, that means…

>To me, that seems like a cultural thing unique to Silicon Valley that the rest of the world does not necessarily want.

It makes a ton of sense from their business perspective, which is to sell highly personalized ads. If you have one single internet persona, it is far easier to tailor ads to you.