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I am happily married now (and haven’t used FB in a year) but this strikes me as a terrible idea. Why would you want dating and current and previous partners int

by gaius 8y ago

I am happily married now (and haven’t used FB in a year) but this strikes me as a terrible idea. Why would you want dating and current and previous partners integrated with the entire rest of your social life? This just has drama written all over it. Then again it’s good for engagement I guess.

nano81 8y ago
Your dating profile is not linked to your regular FB profile/network when shown to other daters
- r00fus 8y ago
  So I read up on this. If FB Dating is almost a separate network (you have to opt-in) then what's the point? Given the profile example, it seems hard to be somewhat pseudonymous... I could probably look that person up as a 2nd - 3rd order connection on FB or e.g. Linkedin. I don't see a draw to this app.
  - wild_preference 8y ago
    Tinder used to require a connection with your Facebook account so that you could only use pictures that you've used in your profile-picture history on Facebook. I thought it was brilliant because now all pictures have to at least pass the social proof of being one of your public profile pics. It's more trustworthy. Though they've since relaxed the requirement, probably because they didn't want to be so tied to Facebook. It's true that you can often google/facebook search matches on dating sites. I have done that before just to get a better idea of who someone is. But that already exists. But I think there is value in enforcing a Facebook profile linkage to a dating profile. It's hard to bullshit, and it's harder for someone to then waste your time.
aylmao 8y ago
> Why would you want dating and current and previous partners integrated with the entire rest of your social life? I mean, isn't your dating already integrated with a lot of your social life? That's part of why breakups are tough, no? Making a comment on the product, it makes sense to me since it mimics how things work in real life. A lot of people meet their significant other through friends and given your social sphere.

by gaius 8y ago

nano81 8y ago

Your dating profile is not linked to your regular FB profile/network when shown to other daters

r00fus 8y ago
So I read up on this. If FB Dating is almost a separate network (you have to opt-in) then what's the point? Given the profile example, it seems hard to be somewhat pseudonymous... I could probably look that person up as a 2nd - 3rd order connection on FB or e.g. Linkedin. I don't see a draw to this app.
- wild_preference 8y ago
  Tinder used to require a connection with your Facebook account so that you could only use pictures that you've used in your profile-picture history on Facebook. I thought it was brilliant because now all pictures have to at least pass the social proof of being one of your public profile pics. It's more trustworthy. Though they've since relaxed the requirement, probably because they didn't want to be so tied to Facebook. It's true that you can often google/facebook search matches on dating sites. I have done that before just to get a better idea of who someone is. But that already exists. But I think there is value in enforcing a Facebook profile linkage to a dating profile. It's hard to bullshit, and it's harder for someone to then waste your time.

aylmao 8y ago

> Why would you want dating and current and previous partners integrated with the entire rest of your social life? I mean, isn't your dating already integrated with a lot of your social life? That's part of why breakups are tough, no? Making a comment on the product, it makes sense to me since it mimics how things work in real life. A lot of people meet their significant other through friends and given your social sphere.