Facebook Dating is integrated into the official Facebook app
At F8, Facebook's conference for developers and investors, Facebook announced that it was working on a dating app . And that project is already a reality that we will be able to find, shortly, within the Facebook. app itself
Facebook Dating, like many other features of Facebook will not be found in an app other than the official app of the social network. On the contrary, it will be a new section or section within the official app just like Facebook Marketplace.
Facebook Dating is nothing like other dating apps and takes advantage of Facebook and Instagram integration
Although Dating will be integrated into the Facebook app itself, the company specifies that to use it you will have to create a new profile. That is, the users' profile will be on Facebook but to use Dating another dissociated profile will be created, which we can link to our own Facebook and Instagram
A Dating profile with different elements
This new flirting feature will be based on the interests that are shared with people. And from Facebook they ensure that users will not be linked to their Facebook friends or followers of Instagram Unless the users themselves want to use a specific function called Secret Crush .
Dating will not work through matches. Thus, different profiles with different elements will appear (your photos selected for Dating, mutual friends of Facebook, photos of Instagram, Instagram profile) and, if the profile likes it, you can give Like directly, which will notify the other person. If you don't like the profile, you can give I don't like and it will disappear.
The Secret Crush option to match up with Facebook friends and Instagram followers and following
It will also be possible to interact, commenting or liking, with the different elements of the profiles, which will cause a Like to be sent directly to the profile. In addition, later, you can connect Facebook and Instagram stories, as well as access events that interest you to see people with similar interests.
At the moment, this function within the Facebook app is available in the United States and some other countries. It will not reach the European Union until the beginning of 2020. What do you think of this function? Will you use it?