hell facebook dating is here!

[yeezus_christ]

Facebook Dating. Also known as "We need a deeper data dive on young persuadables for Brad Perscale." https://t.co/VLa4fJGTfK
- Schooley (@Rschooley) September 5, 2019

• today, facebook officially launched its matchmaking service, dating, in the united states, more than a year after the company first announced the feature. if that sounds unusually slow

Comments

[syvlie0o0]

*old-timer speaking* Dating on Facebook used to just be about snooping to see who the hot guy in your Psycho 101 class was and trying to figure out a way to ask him for notes.

[cbluechicken]

tea.

[zibbydoo324]

Back when it was soooooo easy to creep. I’d find myself 6 degrees out.

[eldvno]

Yup, I miss those days

[savannah_rose24]

This does not seem like a good idea. Just the horror stories I’ve heard from people using other dating platforms, just sounds like another place for creeps to prey on people.

I just saw a story about a woman who killed herself after wiring $93,000 to a guy she met online who was impersonating a soldier. He apparently was a part of a crew claiming to be soldiers paid in gold bars and they needed money to get the bars over to the US or some other nonsense. I think the group ended up scamming people for a couple of million.

[elderpricely]

poor woman :(

[syvlie0o0]

I don't think that's something you can really blame dating apps for. If they all used identity verification, sure, but there's also downsides to that. Creeps will find a way to prey on people no matter what.

[lanrek]

yeahhhhh... as someone who works for a dating app I don’t think Facebook knows what they’re getting themselves into lol

I see some weird shit at my job and I cannot even imagine building a dating platform for the type of person who still uses Facebook on the regular. AND regularly enough to want to use it for dating??? good luck y’all

[xorogueox]

Seriously, the only people I know that still use Facebook are my Christian relatives

[__onthebound]

i use fb for groups and promoting my student activism type group thing. but twitter is really better for that

[paint_it_golden]

Oooh working for a dating app seems like it would be full of interesting stories. I'm intrigued.

[elderpricely]

who is this designed for, really?

[toxic_illusion]

Men.

[yeezus_christ]

predators.

[devourlove]

all of the above

[mwffj]

Never have I been more glad to be married to my high school sweetheart because I could not deal with this at all.

[anterrabre]

I've been with my partner for 18 years and I feel the same way.

[justabwaybaby]

Engaged to a former coworker I met in college ten years ago. I'm so glad I never had to deal with online dating.

[carolinafidz]

I reconnected with a friend from high school on Facebook in 2005 and now he's my husband. I'm so glad we avoided alllll this, though.