Facebook Dating Goes Official, But Only Available in Colombia for Now

At the F8 developer conference before this year, Facebook announced that the visitor will soon launch a dating service integrated into its social media platform. Facebook began testing the Dating feature last calendar month and at present, the company has officially rolled out Facebook Dating exclusively for users in Colombia.

Facebook Dating is a mobile-but feature for now and is currently available in the Facebook app for Android and iOS. Starting today, users in the Due south American country will be able to create a Facebook Dating profile, however, the service won't testify potential matches until the number of sign-ups has reached a item mark.

As revealed earlier by Facebook, the dating service volition exist within the Facebook app, but an individual'due south dating activities will be a completely private every bit the dating contour will be split up from users' Facebook profile. In Facebook Dating, ane can set upwardly a dating contour, cheque out the nearby events and groups that are of interest to them, and sign-up for 1 of the events.

Facebook will so match users with other people who are besides attending the same result based on their interests and common friends. One can also get-go a conversation with another private, however, the interactions will be 'text-only' as a condom mensurate. Yet, starting a conversation won't be a straightforward procedure.

In order to commencement a conversation, you accept to kickoff annotate on a contour chemical element such as photos of the person you are interested in, and if he/she chooses to reply to it, a conversation channel will open. The messages exchanged between two people will exist stored in a divide Facebook Dating chat section, and will appear in the recipient'southward 'Interested' tab without any 'Read' receipt functionality.

"The goal of the team is to make Facebook simply the best place to start a human relationship online", Facebook Dating'south Production Director, Nathan Sharp, was quoted as proverb by TechCrunch. Facebook's dating feature is now live in Republic of colombia, nonetheless, the company has not revealed any information regarding its wider rollout in other countries.