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Facebook Finds a New Service To Copy: Tinder (vice.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report from Motherboard, written by Jacob Dube: Facebook is trying out a new feature that connects users on its Messenger chat platform, but only if they both accept. It looks a lot like Tinder, except it only appears to be connecting people who are already friends with each other. While using Facebook on my phone Wednesday night, I was greeted by a notification that said "[Name redacted] and 15 others may want to meet up with you this week." When I opened the link, I was taken to a page with photos of my Facebook friends and a question: "Want to meet up with [name redacted] this week?" It indicated that my response would be private unless we both said yes. Tap "No Thanks," and that's the end of it. The feature seems to be in beta, and, though it is currently available to me and a few of my friends in Canada, the rest of Motherboard was unable to access it. It's unclear what the feature might be called. It's not hard to see the similarity between the feature and dating apps like Tinder or Bumble, but the Facebook feature seems to connect you only to people you already know, and could have already reached on the Messenger app. The feature didn't just show me potential love interests, however. It also displayed some of my friends, indicating that it might be used to encourage people who are already friends on Facebook to hang out IRL. "People often use Facebook to make plans with their friends," a Facebook spokesperson told Motherboard in an email. "So, we're running a very small test in the Facebook app to make that easier. We look forward to hearing people's feedback." The test is reportedly limited to a small number of users in parts of Toronto and New Zealand, on iOS and Android.
I feel like that this is not the FIRST time they've done this...
That's just how Zuck rolls, permabeta.
So now I can feel guilty when declining requests by people I don't want to hang out with...and feel rejected when people I do want to hang out with decline mine.
the only grinder he's into is the sandwich variety, and he's what you'd call an enthusiast.
So the website which lets you pretend to be "friends" with a bunch of people you haven't seen in years is trying to develop a specific service where you use the website to see if they want to meet up in real life? Like you wouldn't have thought of that yourself, already?
What is this actually adding to the equation, other than maybe some level of plausible deniability?
#DeleteChrome
That's because he's a fat lardo! Hahahaha!
This is more true than creimer's claim that he eats a low calorie, low carb diet. There's no way he'd still be the morbidly obese lardo that he is.
This is their main strategy anymore.
I've got to say that if I had a Facecrook account, I'd be annoyed but since I don't, I find the whole thing amusing!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Friends with Benefits
The story behind Facebook can be found in "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal" by Ben Mezrich, which "The Social Network" movie was based on. "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network" by Katherine Losse takes place after the movie and from a woman's perspective that I'm currently reading. The most recent Facebook-related book is "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, who sold his startup and engineers to Twitter while getting a job at Facebook in a three-way deal, and developed the ad system at Facebook that tracks both logged in and anonymous users with third-party demographic data.
According to our big data analysis, you two should fuck.
Everything Facebook does is part of some kind of social manipulation or another. I would be interested to know how Facebook puts these gatherings together. My prediction is that Facebook will choose groups of people to try to get together, where a majority of the attendees have more liberal thought patterns than the others, in an attempt to make moderates and right-leaners feel like they should think more like liberals.
That's just my prediction, though, based on Mark Zuckerberg's clear devotion to far-left socialist authoritarian views.
Generally when people get together with someone after meeting online, they'll close off their online dating accounts - since people won't want their partner to still be using an online dating site, while with them - something Facebook should consider if they're going to try and go down this route...
Facebook, please give us a way to opt out of these additional services. I'm not interested in a marketplace or these add-on services you keep adding. If you're going to add it, at least allow me to customize my experience to suit my preferences, k thx bai. I have actually started using Facebook a lot less. There is a game I really like that I found on Facebook but now because they keep making Facebook into this hulking albatross, I found a way to access it outside of Facebook. If it weren't for me wanting to keep somewhat in touch with old friends and family, I probably wouldn't use Facebook at all.
We'll make great pets
I wonder what the relationship status (single, married, complicated) the people this is going out to have set. Knowing that would give a clue as to whether this was supposed to be a dating tool, or just some push to get you meeting up with people IRL.
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Facebook should call it "Finder" (rhyming with Tinder), so when you meet someone it's a Finder Binder (fender bender) -- because it's a stupid app and even dumber idea.
The Bang With Friends app lets you tag friends you want to bang. If they happen to also use the app and also tag you then it connects you. It made news 4-5 years ago but it appears to still be around: https://www.facebook.com/searc...