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Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by jhanschoo »

kinkrtyavimoodh wrote: post #283

I think HN should in particular not feel informed enough to comment on strategic benefit of product decisions like these, because the general HN opinion of FB which is at such odds at FB's place in society is enough to conclude that HN doesn't really understand FB. HN is a SV or SV-adjacent bubble that takes pride in not having social media profiles and doesn't hesitate in boasting about it in every frigging thread,…

I don't know enough about FB's realistic position, but it is theoretically better positioned than specialized dating-app companies to provide a better matchmaking service. Specialized dating services fail to provide value to their users once they are no longer in the dating market, whereas FB can continue to get involved in its users' lives post-dating, and arguably moreso when they experience a lifestyle change.

For this reason, there is more room for the incentives of FB and those in the dating market to align, and so I welcome this.

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by mdpye »

andreilys wrote: post #222
asdfman123 wrote: post #179

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 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. In China WeChat is synonymous with both your business and personal life. When networking and meeting business contacts you don’t give out your LinkedIn, you give out your WeChat.

Is WeChat a social network or a messaging platform? I realise it is expanding, but I'd have no problem doing talking business on WhatsApp (which is the closest analogue to what I understand it to be for).

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by loser777 »

e12e wrote: post #294
peterkelly wrote: post #250

"If your crush isn’t on Dating, doesn’t create a Secret Crush list, or doesn’t put you on their list — then no one will know that you’ve entered their name." I'm looking forward to watching the shitstorm when that info gets leaked or an exploit is found that allows you to see whose lists you're on.

You add all your friends to your secret crush list, and find everyone who's added you? The exploit is built in.

It sounds like they limited this to 9 friends, but if you can still cycle through the list it’ll be problematic.

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by Lramseyer »

hmmmhmmmhmmm wrote: post #158

Facebook has 10+ years of data about people and their friendships and relationships unfolding through time (tagged pictures, relationship status, updates, likes, etc.). It's hard to tell if they've built and deployed such a model for proposing matches, but this could be their killer feature. Superficially, this product seems no different from existing data apps.

That was what I thought! I’m a pretty anti-Facebook person, and I don’t have a profile anymore. But facebook has data on you both explicit and implicit. They can predict your mental health state, socioeconomic status, and they have tons of data on the formation of relationships and marriages. They can even predict who you like and who you’re going to date next. As creepy as that data is, why shouldn’t they use it to actually connect people who they would predict to be compatible? A huge problem for online dating platforms is making good suggestions, and Facebook is probably the most well equipped to address it.

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Post by r00fus »

mdpye wrote: post #302
andreilys wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>To me, that seems like a cultural thing unique to Silicon Valley that the rest of the world does not necessarily want. In China WeChat is synonymous with both your business and personal life. When networking and meeting business contacts you don’t give out your LinkedIn, you give out your WeChat.

Is WeChat a social network or a messaging platform? I realise it is expanding, but I'd have no problem doing talking business on WhatsApp (which is the closest analogue to what I understand it to be for).

The answer is both. Look at FB - major usage is FB messenger.

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by doubleunplussed »

jlg23 wrote: post #289
asdfman123 wrote: post #179

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 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…

> 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. Indeed. I live in a muslim country and here everyone uses dual-sim phones with 2 sims for the sole purpose of having 2 accounts at everything: one for the conservative part of the family, another for the modern…

How does having two sims help with that? I switch out my SIM when I travel internationally, but I am still logged into all my accounts.

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Post by coryrc »

doubleunplussed wrote: post #306
jlg23 wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. Indeed. I live in a muslim country and here everyone uses dual-sim phones with 2 sims for the sole purpose of having 2 accounts at everything: one for the conservative part of the family, another for the modern…

How does having two sims help with that? I switch out my SIM when I travel internationally, but I am still logged into all my accounts.

Many accounts are tied to a phone number.

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by nnq »

"Let's do Tinder... but with likes, shares & comments from your entire (extended) family, and your boss!"

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by gormo2 »

Online dating seems to be a perennial problem, like a note-taking or "todo app" that attracts many different approaches from startups, but whose end result never quite scratches the itch (for me, at least).

a bit offtopic, but have any HN users successfully used dating websites in the past 2-3 years to find long-term partners or spouses? If so, which did you use and do you feel the site/app helped facilitate that process, or was it more of luck that it worked out?

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