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Facebook Reaches Its Natural Conclusion As A Dating App (buzzfeed.com)
Facebook will soon include a dating feature in its service, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at the company's F8 developer conference in San Jose Tuesday. From a report: The service will throw Facebook into a sphere it's long been adjacent to but never entered. The social network already has online dating's critical ingredient, a robust graph of people's connection, and services like Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge have been built on top of it. Now, it's getting into the dating game itself.
"There are 200 million people on Facebook who list themselves as single, so clearly there's something to do here," Zuckerberg said. "Today, we are announcing a new set of features coming soon, around dating." The feature will be opt-in, and will not match users with people they're already friends with. Update: Facebook has clarified that married people too can use the dating service.
"There are 200 million people on Facebook who list themselves as single, so clearly there's something to do here," Zuckerberg said. "Today, we are announcing a new set of features coming soon, around dating." The feature will be opt-in, and will not match users with people they're already friends with. Update: Facebook has clarified that married people too can use the dating service.
I always hated that so many popular dating apps decided they required a Facebook login. They desired all that extra data and, while I was willing to give a small company that info, I was not willing to give Facebook it.
Now they are all about to have their business destroyed by the behemoth they fed in their demand for a slightly easier login and extra non-dating related data.
Honestly, if you want to make your own business, only an idiot sets themselve up as totally dependent on one supplier. That makes you their middleman, nothing more.
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Right now Facebook is fighting the #DeleteFacebook movement as trivial as that is in the grand scheme of things. Regardless, it still presents a threat. Thus Facebook has to come up with ways to make you less likely to move off their platform. Thus a dating app makes sense if you're single or "single." It will keep all that ad revenue on their platform or so they believe.
BTW, despite what they say, if Facebook thinks for one second that they can make a pile of money from quick hookups, they'll go there too.
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