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Facebook has announced the launch of Facebook Dating , an application to link linked to the social network and in which you can also add Instagram content. The tool is now available in the United States and 19 other countries, although only for people over 18 years. It will arrive in Europe in early 2020 .
"Finding a romantic partner is something deeply personal, and that's why we have built Dating to be safe, inclusive and optional," explains Nathan Sharp , product manager at Facebook Dating, on the company's blog.
According to the manager, they have worked with security and privacy experts so that the function arrives with tools that protect users from the outset, such as the possibility of reporting and blocking profiles or not allowing the sending of images, videos, links or payments in your messages The company - which, in fact, explains these measures before the operation of the app itself in the press release in which it was announced - will also give safety advice.
Profiles will only be created if users of legal age so request and can be deleted at any time. Then, by default they will only show the first name and age; the rest of the content will have to be selected manually. Erin Egan, head of privacy at Facebook, says in another post that all this information may be different from what appears on the main profile and that dating activity will never appear on it. In fact, no contact will know that the app is being used to flirt unless the user chooses it and the contacts will never appear suggested. For Facebook friends, it will be as if your contacts do not exist in the application.
That is, the profiles of this Facebook Tinder will be separated from the main one . Then, similar ones will be suggested based on preferences, interests "and other things you do on Facebook"; presumably, all of this, in common. The firm has not provided much information about the process it will use to suggest potential orange averages.
Once in Dating it will be possible to comment on profiles as well as to like them so that they are aware of the interest. It will be possible to connect with friends of friends of the social network as well as with people who are not in these circles.
Likewise, a function that could be translated as "secret crush" will give the option of matching contacts with Facebook contacts , but only if both people are added to your crushes list. No one will know that another person has added you to that list unless the feeling is reciprocal. Instagram contacts can also be part of this list that, yes, can not exceed nine people.
The content of this other network - which, remember, is also owned by Facebook - may appear on the Dating profile "to help you show, instead of saying who you are," according to Sharp. "This format allows you to be authentic in a way that a profile to flirt normally doesn't allow, and it helps you get to know someone after being matched."
Facebook Dating is available in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, the Philippines, Guyana, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Singapore, Suriname, Thailand, Uruguay and Vietnam.
Other similar applications, such as Tinder, are also often reluctant to explain how exactly their algorithms work, although none have as much information about their users as Facebook. And, in general, none has faced so many scandals about the use it makes of this data and how it stores it. Facebook, on the other hand, defends itself before receiving the blow, and ensures that it will not share the activity of Dating outside of this tool.
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