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I've started a dating site, and we're launching solely with FB Connect support, with no plans to support alternatives in the near future. Why? Because the dat

by daeken 16y ago

I've started a dating site, and we're launching solely with FB Connect support, with no plans to support alternatives in the near future. Why? Because the data we get from the social graph makes our product better in many ways without the user having to duplicate efforts. We get their interests, their friends interests, their checkins, etc without the user having to put any of that explicitly into our site. This allows us to give a vastly better experience to our userbase, while losing effectively nothing -- our demo is non-techy 21-35 singles, meaning 95%+ Facebook users. Edit: To clarify, I mean that no less than 95% of our demographic is already using Facebook.

joe_the_user 16y ago
I assume you would succeed if your target audience is willing to accept that you will be filtering information that they've given to someone else for reasons other than dating (at least it's better than the "dating site" that scraped Facebook for prospects). It's possible. I would guess that people would be willing to take this "deal" if they believed that they'd be guaranteed that others also have to take your deal. However, aside from a person's desire to present themselves as they choose rather than as you choose, the problem might that some would create Facebook accounts only for dating and thus control their presentation better than the average person who wouldn't bother. But perhaps your users wouldn't consider such deviousness (and don't tell me you'd filter those people out - the account themselves could perfectly real, just accounts only created for a purpose). Personally, I wouldn't accept this since I want to control how I'm represented. I don't fully trust Facebook but I might trust them with something things. I don't trust you but I might trust you with some other things. Giving you and those like-you my FB information means that I'd have to suddenly start putting unlimited in both FB and you. Maybe some people are OK with unlimited trust and "openness". I doubt there will be increase in such people over time - I could be wrong.

by daeken 16y ago

joe_the_user 16y ago

I assume you would succeed if your target audience is willing to accept that you will be filtering information that they've given to someone else for reasons other than dating (at least it's better than the "dating site" that scraped Facebook for prospects). It's possible. I would guess that people would be willing to take this "deal" if they believed that they'd be guaranteed that others also have to take your deal. However, aside from a person's desire to present themselves as they choose rather than as you choose, the problem might that some would create Facebook accounts only for dating and thus control their presentation better than the average person who wouldn't bother. But perhaps your users wouldn't consider such deviousness (and don't tell me you'd filter those people out - the account themselves could perfectly real, just accounts only created for a purpose). Personally, I wouldn't accept this since I want to control how I'm represented. I don't fully trust Facebook but I might trust them with something things. I don't trust you but I might trust you with some other things. Giving you and those like-you my FB information means that I'd have to suddenly start putting unlimited in both FB and you. Maybe some people are OK with unlimited trust and "openness". I doubt there will be increase in such people over time - I could be wrong.