How Facebook Dating works
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Starting today, Facebook users living in Colombia can create a personal dating profile on Facebook. Within Facebook's own social network, Colombians can see a new tab dedicated to 'romance suggestions' based on all the user information available to the network, which we all know is a lot. Facebook already knows us almost as well as our mother… why not trust her to get a boyfriend or girlfriend for life?
Among the main features of this new dating feature was trying to match people for long-term relationships (not a simple 'I'll catch you here, I'll kill you here'), in order to differentiate itself from Tinder ), limit the number of people a user may be interested in per day (the number seems excessive to us, 100, but there are people who are wanting to find love, we do not judge) and put in priority order personal issues that interest the potential partner and show you, by default and without the user having to configure anything, friends of friends and strangers, unless, of course, you only want to see people with whom you have nothing to do.
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At the moment, as reported by the medium that has echoed the test, TechCrunch, Facebook has no intention of monetizing its dating function, not even with a premium version that gives access to functions extra. But, of course, all this remains to be seen.
The Facebook Dating function will also be exclusively for mobile. The user will receive a notification when it is available in their country, inviting them to try it and redirecting them to the new tab. Once interested, the user must fill out aform with personal data(whatever he wants to include), in addition to verifying his city of residence. To decorate their profile they will have to choose from a good handful of photos, which may already be posted on both Facebook and Instagram.As a climax, they will have to answer 20 personal questions, all in order to find the ideal partner.
Users, once the role has a sufficient number of candidates for interaction to be possible, can filter the results geographically , up to a radius of 100 kilometers, and also by height, age or even religion. Then, all the possible candidates will appear on the Facebook Dating screen. People you've previously blocked won't appear to you, so if one of them turns out to be your soul mate, we're sorry. The user will see the candidates one by one, like in Tinder. To see the following, you will either have to dismiss it or choose a photo or personal question from the user in question and send them a message about it.
All messages sent by those interested in the new Facebook dating function will appear in a special section, different from the messaging application. To avoid harassment, the user will not be able to contact, in any way, with a person who has not answered. In addition, the function will be able to identify the messages you send so that you only send messages related to the person you are talking to, other than 'photopenis', for example For example, one of that person's photos along with a personal message.
Once the trial in Colombia ends, Facebook Dating will become a reality in different countries. When will it be Spain's turn?
