There is a great tendency for more and more people to lean towards online dating sites or applications and Facebook knows in detail the tastes and interests of each user of its social network, and considering that it has millions of pre-registered users, so to speak, this makes the idea have a great chance of being successful, allowing users to find someone compatible to achieve a relationship, with a high degree of effectiveness.
Facebook's new move has surely caught the attention of Tinder managers, currently one of the online dating sites with the most followers, so they will surely be closely following the movements of Facebook Dating in the coming months.
How does Facebook Dating work?
To begin with, it will be available exclusively only for users over 18 years of age, and as we mentioned before, it will be part of the current Facebook application.
The user will be able to decide whether or not they want to use it to find a partner. To start, you must create a new profile within Facebook Dating, where it obtains your name and age from your main Facebook profile plus 20 pre-established questions about areas of interest.
According to the first analyses, Facebook Dating will use geolocation to suggest nearby profiles. From this, it aims to create a personal experience achieving long-term relationships and not focused on so-called quick encounters as happens in other applications.
Unlike its predecessors, physical appearance will not be predominant, but rather obtain the possibility of starting a conversation and showing your personality in order to start a relationship.
To achieve this, Facebook Dating will use a new chat, which according to the social network acts separately from the famous Messenger with some limitations, at least initially, where functionality such as sending will be blocked. photos or videos, or place links to focus on making genuine connections.
In short, instead of relying on a photo to chat, users can send a message based on the responses. The case of success will be achieved depending on how interesting that first message is, since on the other side, you can decide whether to answer or not. If you do not do so, the interested user will no longer be able to write to you again.
Facebook Dating and privacy
To achieve a relationship it will not be necessary for the other party to be a "friend", this will allow your family and friends to not be able to see that you have started using the service.
For those who want to find someone completely outside of their network, they can also add an additional layer of security where they cannot chat with those who have friends in common.
You will also be able to control what content to show or not to your potential dates.
Dating through events?
Facebook shows other users of the service interested in similar events, this is quite innovative on the part of the social network, encouraging people with common interests to start talking. It will also link people through past events, thus achieving that somewhat strange feeling of discovering that they could have met before.
Colombia, the first to try it
It is no coincidence that Colombia is the first country to be able to try Facebook Dating. The truth is that the South American country has become one of the countries that use Tinder the most, and considering that Facebook has more than 26 million potential users in that country, we can realize that Colombia was not chosen at random for Facebook's new dating space.
In any case, the implementation will be gradual.
Although both options are available, the difference lies in how well users know the platforms and how conversations arise.
The Facebook service Dating will be available on both Android and iOS operating systems.
Updated on: 22/09/2018 00:00:00
