This could fill in nicely the void left in the dating scene by Craigslist's rule changes not too long ago.
Facebook Dating
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Re: Facebook Dating
#422Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't underestimate Facebook. I am sure they have stats that show that almost no one knows. Because almost no one knows - not even most IT professionals. There is also something I call "sulking to the giant" (my made up term) - I've seen many times people say "I would never tell Facebook my name/city/age/..." only to do it a year later.
Yeah, I don't know about underestimating them, I've been chatting back and forth with our FB account manager regarding our business needs for something in their Ad biz. Turns out, they can't deliver on this pretty universal feature (even Twitter has it), so huh yeah, let's talk about how great they are again.
I would guess that their business analysts are separate from their development team.
Re: Facebook Dating
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I don't agree. Allowing someone to list their relationship status on their otherwise-non-dating-site profile is a far far cry from providing tools and UX to help people match with others they might be interested in. Certainly people have found romantic partners on FB in the past 15 years, but I would view that as in spite of the lack of dating-related features. Up until now, FB has not been geared toward or especiall…
I can't believe you guys are arguing over whether or not Facebook used to be a dating site and nobody has mentioned the "poke" button.
When I was in high school, back before the news feed, Facebook was the best way to flirt! Go to someone’s page and post a comment — it was was so casual. Too bad Facebook killed it when they started broadcasting everything you post.
Re: Facebook Dating
#424On a tangential note; there still seems to be a lot of improvements to be done in the area of dating apps.
I still can't believe that in the era of Machine Learning, Big Data, etc. Tinder insists on presenting me with people with certain characteristics that I almost always pass up on.
Companies know with scarily accuracy which things I want to buy but can't present me with someone I'd like to meet and which will potentially want to meet me as well? (Or maybe there's no such person, heh).
Or maybe this is just so that I spend all my "Passes" and I buy Tinder Gold or whatever their premium service is called...
Re: Facebook Dating
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I'm glad it's not just me. I've pretty much abandoned my facebook account because it's full of all my stupid high school personal stuff, and doesn't really feel relevant any more. Yesterday a colleague had me link a third-party application to a business-related page using my personal account, and it felt like a huge invasion of my personal sphere to have pages for a band I was in ten years ago appear on the list next…
> Do social media workers have some kind of strategy for managing their public and private identities? Got me, I'm a social media refusenik. I have only encountered one third party application for work that was lazy and broken enough to require FB login, and I made up a throwaway account specifically for it. (I also had to remove all the 127.0.0.1 entries for FB names in /etc/hosts, but that's different.) Does doing…
I haven't managed to create throwaway FB accounts for a while now. It always ends up requiring a phone number, and I don't have throwaway phone numbers.
Re: Facebook Dating
#426Re: Facebook Dating
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This is true for security reasons too, i don't want to give my 2FA number to anyone or any website that i will use only once in a while
2FA by phone should be dead. SMS is insecure and I've deprecated it for all forms of communication with me. I use virtual numbers for all websites and banks that have stupid forced phone 2FA, including Facebook.
Sounds like a good idea. Virtual numbers from where?
Re: Facebook Dating
#428Bye bye tinder
Re: Facebook Dating
#429Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very true in my experience. While many (maybe 60%) still have an account, they basically do nothing with it. If you're a Facebook employee you may see that number of signups number and go "yeah they are using it" but the amount of use is VERY different from what I can tell. Generally I'm very in agreement with the parent: The older won't want to use Facebook for dating, the younger would never look to Facebook. That…
> number of signups Definitely not. DAU and MAU are what they base their user numbers and big milestones on
"Active" there means opened, not actively consumed. I'm "active" almost every day, but the majority of my sessions are below 20 seconds. They mean nothing to Facebook, and they mean nothing to me. Facebook lost the value it had for me.
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Switching sims doesnt log me out of whatsapp either - as far as i can tell its totally optional whether i want to update my whatsapp number to my phone number or not.
Yes it’s true that switching sims doesn’t log you out, but if you decided to intentionally log out from account A and create a new account B, you would need a second SIM card, that’s what the parent comment was trying to explain.