Are you single and you have a Facebook account? Very soon, you’ll be able to use it as a
platform for finding your soul mate. Facebook is about to launch a dating feature that will make it a kind of dating site. Perhaps, this idea came to your mind earlier when you contacted some nice eastern European brides, whose profiles caught your eye, and thought to yourself whether it was appropriate. Guys behind Facebook analyzed the marital statuses of their users and found out that there are 200 million singles. Moreover, it’s customary today to look for love online. It’s quite an obvious assumption that Facebook folks might be interested in finding love within their social network.
Are you a potential user of a new dating service run by Facebook? Read about its main features to decide for yourself.
The aim: serious dating
The dating industry is quite diverse. It offers services for finding flings, friendships, serious relationships, casual relationships, etc. At Facebook, they want you to find a partner for a solid and long-term relationship using this feature.
Privacy and transparency
If you want to date through Facebook, you’ll need to create an additional dating profile. Your friends will not see whether you have one or not. Also, your friends will not be on the list of potential matches. The feature will translate only first names, which means you’ll see the real names of people. Also, you’ll send and receive messages from strangers not through Messenger, but through a separate chat that supports only text messages. This will ensure a solid first chat free from images and links.
The choice of mature people
It’s expected that the majority of users will be people in their 50s and divorcees. This can be explained by the fact that older people want to use dependable and traditional services. While young people widely use different sites and apps, trying new services that keep popping up, mature people want to use something they are already somehow familiar with. Facebook is a familiar environment for them, so they are expected to be actively using its dating feature.
No longer an intermediary
Such services as Tinder or Bumble ask you to register using your Facebook account. It means that if you get interested in someone’s dating profile, you can check out their Facebook page to get a better idea of what kind of person they are. Since Facebook is getting its own dating service, it becomes self-sufficient.
Free or paid?
We know that most of the popular dating services operate on a subscription basis or charge fees for premium services. It’s still unknown whether Facebook’s dating feature will be free or paid, and if paid, what the rate will be.
Opponents
Although the idea of finding a romantic match within your social network seems quite
tempting, there are some people who don’t fancy such a perspective. You’ll be matched with people based on the attended events, liked posts, and common groups. However, you may not be interested in dating people who simply share your interests. Your online community is not the same as the pool of potential dates.
