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Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by magduf »

jsjw7sbw wrote: post #21
buro9 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dating makes money, Tinder is successful, so Facebook are leaving money on the table... or worse, letting someone else take the money from the table... if they don't do dating. Of course, the pool of potential people you can date is "those on Facebook", so that's hilarious and compounds existing problems with echo chambers.

I would love a date people NOT on facebook app.

What about people like me, who have a FB account but never really do anything with it?

The only things I use mine for are 1) using FB Messenger (lite) to communicate with some other people who use that, and 2) selling some of my crap on FB Marketplace.

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by StrangeDoctor »

jonknee wrote: post #34
tryitnow wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, but I think the "dating self" and the "facebook self" overlap a lot for most people. It's also important for a dating app to have critical mass. Almost everyone is on FB, only a fraction of those people are on IG.

Among all people sure, but among people in the dating demographic? I would not be surprised at all if more people in prime dating ages are on IG than FB (especially in an active manner, do young people post on FB in any real way?).

I think you’ve gone astray equating young with prime dating, all you need is like seeking like, and both using FB is probably a good start.

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by roland35 »

donatj wrote: post #12

This seems like something they should have added ten plus years ago, when their demo was primarily college kids. I know many people who were clamoring for it at the time. It would have been an obvious addition as dating and relationships were a large part of the reason a lot of people used Facebook. I half suspect this is an attempt to pull college kids back into Facebook. I think they missed their chance with this b…

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.

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

JacKTrocinskI wrote: post #13

Date your friends! :D On a more serious note though, why not? If their mission is to help connect people and this helps connect people that otherwise had trouble dating and this does so in a meaningful way then sounds good to me. Privacy is always a concern no matter what the app/site/technology.

Yeah, like, as much as I detest Facebook, if I was looking for a partner... I'd consider using this. It'd be using my social graph of people I know to find people I don't know but who are probably similar or would fit well into my life? I feel like this is likely to be a lot more effective than the old dating app questionnaire.

Definitely a bit nerve-wracking on who can see if you're using it, potentially, since you know, I'd never want people on Facebook to know I'm using a "dating app", but other than that, I actually really like the implementation here.

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by erikig »

TallGuyShort wrote: post #19

"Secret Crush Lists" Yeah that doesn't sound like something that'll end up on Pastebin.

When the largest accompanying FB news headline is: "Over 400 million Facebook users' phone numbers exposed" this feels like the most poorly timed product launch.

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by magduf »

radlad wrote: post #20
mberning wrote: post #18

They did it with marketplace and took a very significant bite out of places like craigslist. I’m sure they can do the same for dating.

I did not expect Marketplace to take off and now it's a must-check before Craigslist.

Not only that, but as much as I like to bad-mount FB, I will say that when I post stuff on FB Marketplace to sell, I never get people saying they want to buy it from me with a cashier's check. There are a lot of flakes, however, but that's the case with CL as well, but I've never run across a scammer, whereas on CL I get scammers all the time with the stupid cashier's check scam.

Re: Facebook Dating

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Post by msoad »

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.
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