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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.
My wife's on facebook. jk
got a date with a hot Nigerian Princess.
Table-ized A.I.
This has the makings of some very creepy dating scenarios and introductions, like in the super market or stuck in traffic.
"Honk at the blue lexus if you want a date"
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
Shopping for a Russian wife on Facebook. Then you find out she's a GRU operative and you get blackmailed into serving Putin. Most likely make you run for public office.
All kidding around aside.. most online dating is just fail, fail, fail to start with, and 'Facebook dating'? Seriously? It's too early in the week to facepalm this hard.
You should be able to opt into that, too. There's people on my friends list I don't know all that well.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Why not match with friends? Make it "opt in", so if both people poke each other, they get matched :) If you already know someone, it might be a good tool as well.
Facebook busted for human trafficking.
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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The Facebook Divorce app!
... The feature will be opt-in, and will not match users with people they're already friends with.
Is that so? Sounds to me like maybe someone neglected to do their homework.
Why, despite the number of folks posting submissions are we getting buzzfeed sourced articles with no submitter except msmash or BeauHD? Seriously - I had to go back two pages on the firehose feed to find any submitted articles except one AC submitted one.
Check your premises.
Since Facebook is a "free" website you wont have a bunch of paid actors on the site stringing lonely people along trying to keep them subscribing to service.
This could be useful. I was recently on okcupid (formerly the best of the bunch) and they seem to have lost their way.
They sent me an email proclaiming that I'd been liked, and received a message. Great!
Nothing in my inbox.
Re-read the message, and it explained that in order to see the message, I'd have to click through a bunch of random profiles and swipe, and that if I'd happened to have swiped the particular user who messaged me, then I'd get to see said message.
I thought it was a bug or scam.. but apparently that's how it works now. Needless to say, I wasn't able to see the person's message. Love lost!
But seriously, it kinda blew my mind. Dating sites have one purpose: connect people together. okcupid hired someone who clearly didn't understand what their raison d'etre is, and made their site, essentially, pointless. Maybe they were looking for a way to exit the market slowly for some reason. Or maybe the person they hired was a trojan from Facebook. :p
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Really not what we meant by "fuck you", facebook...
APK, I like the cut of your jib. Don't let anyone spread lies about you.
[Listen you guys (especially you dirty little fucks), you wanna come after APK, you'll have to come through me to do it.]
You are welcome on my lawn.
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.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
SMS is harder. An old flame would have to still have your number (assuming it never changed.)
Facebook gives easy access and also allows people enough of a window into your life to fake their way into looking like there is an emotional connection.
He says that as if it was a problem to be fixed.
Fuck you, Zuckerberg. No wait, I didn't mean it that way!
#DeleteFacebook
(sarcasm intended).
When kids that use facebook start getting recommended to other people as potential dates just because of a bad setting, they are going to be in sooooo much shit for this....
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Wonder how many people will use this feature as a quick "hookup"?
Judging from the typical FB feed, all the interesting and sexy singles (real ones, not bots) are the ones who aren't on Facebook.
This could actually undermine a key branding strength that's enabled Facebook to hold on for so long -- people don't mind staying superficially "connected" with old friends whom they never talk to, but in the roller coaster quest for love, a failed relationship could linger like moldy cheese in your timeline . . . every time you see that little blue icon you're reminded of all the disappointment and pain . . . better to just "delete Facebook" and start fresh on a new app -- after all there are plenty of other fish (apps) in the sea!
I just figured he has a couple hotkeys configured to insert HTML tags?
Why, do you think he used an Arduino and Delphi to make a MIDI interface to some foot pedals that convert the stomping of his feet to the proper text format in real time?
This is honestly long overdue. If they manage to do this well, this could get pretty popular pretty fast. I've never gotten any joy out of Facebook, but I could honestly see myself giving this a try.
In one sentence, you're one of "us", men. In the next you are one of "we", women.
20 years ago many people thought it was a bit crazy to "meet people from the internet"
How many times does Facebook need to be exposed as a political manipulation tool and seller of your data to whomever pays?!
Fuck Facebook.
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
I fell victim to a dating scam through a Facebook friend request. It is too easy to pull this off on FB.
The scam artists got my name on a list and I was still getting friend requests from complete female strangers with all the hallmarks of a dating scam (no mutual friends, too few friends, account opened too recent, no mutual interests, location too far away, etc)
Since then I have changed my account settings so that the only friend requests I can receive are from mutual friends, and only my friends can view my timeline. That effectively stopped the scam artists.
I have zero interest in using FB as a dating service after that experience.
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The reason all sorts of dating apps were using Facebook logins was to get access to your social graph, so could could tell if a match was known to someone you know, or perhaps connected more distantly... the idea being you could ask someone else about them, or at least be a little, more assured they were a somewhat normal person.
The interesting thing is, they were not (AFIK) ever sharing anyone's facebook account with anyone else. But if Facebook turns to dating it seems like they would, which I think would raise a lot of concerns with people... I would want to know someone better than just "I might want to date them" before I ever wanted them seeing my Facebook account (though these days I imagine that's not really possible since someone can just google your name).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
In one sentence, you're one of "us", men. In the next you are one of "we", women.
There may be some confusion in his words, but I just use the First Rule of Internet: The person shitposting is always a man.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
So, FB is finally going down that last vestige of online moral prostitution and becoming a dating site. Picking up for all the lost Craigslist space...
Next they'll be selling sex toys online.
All the more reason to quit FB.
Wasn't this the original purpose of Facebook?
Yeah, there's no bots on Facebook.
Slow news week?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
There's bots, and just like all other chat services since the beginning of AOL, and they will continue trying to lure people to other websites, but there is no financial incentive for the site owners themselves to deceive people the same way. Matchmaking is not Facebook's only purpose (unlike Match.com), and their business model is based on data mining, not direct subscriptions (at this point).
When will Facebook start kissing me and tucking me in at night?
What difference does it make whether the bot is from Facebook or an outside platform? This new service would enable it.
No, it's part of my new anti-cyberbullying campaign. I've been appointed the Ambassador to Slashdot as part of the First Lady's efforts to combat online bullying.
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You are welcome on my lawn.
Why, do you think he used an Arduino and Delphi to make a MIDI interface to some foot pedals that convert the stomping of his feet to the proper text format in real time?
I don't know why, but I actually LOL'd at that.
Facebook is exactly the place where you should put intimate details about you, knowing how trustworthy they proved to handle all the ordinary privacy information about you.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
This move will probably kill dating apps that were built upon Facebook, notably Coffee Meets Bagel. CMB was built upon the idea of linking up friends-of-friends on Facebook's network. This will probably be one of the major causalities. Other popular dating websites probably glean data from Facebook, but they have their own independent databases allowing them to stay standing albeit with greater competition.
PornHub should add a dating function that matches people up with others that are into the same kinks... er, not like I would need that sort of service, no sir... I mean, all I do is straight missionary, no kinks at all!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
a bunch of paid actors on the site stringing lonely people along trying to keep them subscribing to service.
I first ran into that kind of 'paid actors' on CompuServe back in about 1987. There were ostensibly female 'mods' who would socialize with you and kinda flirt.
This was back when connect time on CompuServe was about $12.00 per hour billed to your credit card. Oh, there was a modem pool that was 'half price' at six bucks an hour if you wanted to connect at 300 baud.
I'm a bloke, so being realistic, I don't have stalkers and nobody is searching FB for nudie pics of me.... but, if I was using FB for dating, would I really want a stranger browsing my old photos and viewing my contacts? This hands over more info to a potential date/psycho than I am comfortable with.
I mostly use Facebook for the groups now. So there's a whole lot of people who share interests with me already filtered out of the general herd. It might be nice to see if anyone there matches my other interests and is local to me. If nothing else I can find people who could be real life friends without being Stalker McCreepy by random messaging.
I wondered how long it would take for them to wind up this function. It's a social media application and dating is a social activity. Should be interesting to watch the process unfold.
I can quit any time I want!
#DeleteFacebook
Facebook's revenue is based on advertising, and they want to eliminate an entire highly active sector of advertising on their site? (dating apps)
It's a bit mystifying. Anyone shed some light?
> This is complicated by new anti-rape attitudes (not laws) proclaiming it's
> okay for 17 year-old female to fuck a 19 year-old but not a 20-year-old. (Do
> any US states claim a 17 year-old female can fuck, but only other 17 year-olds?)
Check with a lawyer. https://www.ageofconsent.net/ should not be considered an official source, regardless of how well-intentioned they are. There are some jurisdictions that have "close-in-age exemptions". This is also known as a "Romeo and Juliet clause". Both of the lead characters in that Shakespeare play were 14.
Other jurisdictions are "zero-tolerance" assholes, and *BOTH* participants can be charged with statutory rape, and listed on the sex-offender-registry if they're both under the age of consent when they have sex. Things are difficult in the USA in that you're potentailly looking at over 50 different sets of laws, including territorries (Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, etc)
I'm not repeating myself
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I just finished deleting all my facebook data. That's it - all gone. I'm guessing that'll fuck up their interrelationship data more than just deleting the account.
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