Facebook Dating: what it is and how it works

Facebook, the well-known social network, has also launched in Italy and all other European countries, its new service to find a soul mate. It is about Facebook Dating, the first online dating service designed to help users establish new satisfying and positive relationships. This service, initially launched in the United States with considerable success in September 2019, received 1.5 billion meeting and contact proposals.

Facebook, with Dating, wants to revolutionize the paradigm, offering a more complete service than the famous Tinder. We have already talked about the best apps and services to meet new people and Facebook with its entry into the field could upset the sector.

Often these apps are in fact quite complete (like Lovoo) but suffer from a low number of subscribers, while integration with an important social network such as Facebook could exponentially increase the number of participants in the new dating service, and therefore the chances of finding a person similar to us.

Facebook Dating is an inclusive service, suitable for everyone, whatever their sexual orientation (straight, gay or bisexual). Obviously, each will be paired with people who have expressed the same preference.

How Facebook Dating Works

The new feature is a space that can be freely activated by everyone within the Facebook app. If you don’t have the Facebook app you can find it for free for Android on the Play Store and for iOS on the App Store. If the new section “Dating”It does not appear you simply need update the Facebook app to the latest version.

To create your dating profile you need to follow the following steps:

• open your Facebook app and log in with your account credentials;
• press the menu key (with three horizontal lines) at the top right;
• then tap the “Dating“;
• then first press the purple button “It begins“, And in the next screen on”Forward“;
• then it will be up to insert what your gender is and what kind you are looking for;
• you will then have to accept the license, and give approval for the use of your position, and press again on “Forward“;
• then it will be time to choose our best photo and then tap again on “Forward“;
• finally, it can be completed by pressing the “Confirmation“.

In the first screen you are reassured, our friends will not be notified that we use Dating and will not be proposed to us among possible new acquaintances (and of course we will not be proposed to them).

Once you have completed the short registration you can customize our profile, entering your interests and also being able to share your Facebook and Instagram stories to make yourself known better by those who visit it.

Secret Crush

This is one of the coolest features. If we have any of our Facebook friends we are interested in, just enter it in “Secret Mail” (in English Secret Crush), he won’t know about us unless he has added us to the same list as well. In that case of course we will have a match and we will know of mutual interest. You can add up to a maximum of 9 people in this feature, among those present among our friends.

Video Appointment

Even Facebook Dating, a bit like Tinder works through match, when two people like each other, they can start chatting or even start a convenient video appointment. To start the video appointment you will need not only the match, but also a new authorization from the other person.

Everything about the new service seems to have been designed to guarantee the privacy of your personal data and to allow meeting with like-minded people. Everything about your dating profile will not appear on the main page of the social network and the exchanged messages will not appear on your messenger.

Events and groups

In some respects Facebook Dating is certainly similar to Tinder, not only for the possibility of starting chatting between people who like each other, but Facebook has also thought of initiatives to facilitate meetings based on common interests. You can in fact enable Dating to access our groups and Events, so that people who have interests similar to ours are reported to us, so that we can talk about common interests.

Furthermore, Dating has been studied together with security and privacy experts, you can easily block and report harassing profiles, and you can also choose whether or not to receive photos, videos, links or payments.