- Features
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- Further reading
Facebook Dating is a digital dating product in development at Facebook. Features Facebook Dating is planned as a feature within Facebook's main app rather than a separate app release. Facebook users would create a separate dating profile. After indicating interest in another profile, the service would let the users contact each other. Facebook also plans a feature to let people attending the same event make their profiles visible to each other.{{r|Verge: internal testing}} Development Facebook announced the product at their F8 developer conference in May 2018. The feature was in internal beta testing within several months.{{r|Verge: internal testing}} Facebook Dating has been launched in Colombia in September 2018. The second expansion has been launched in Canada and Thailand in October 2018.[1] References 1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/8/18075402/facebook-dating-test-feature-expand-canada-thailand-update|title=Facebook expands its dating feature test to Canada and Thailand|work=The Verge|access-date=2018-11-08}}
}} Further reading {{refbegin}}- {{Cite web |last1=Constine |first1=Josh |title=Facebook Dating will be a feature, not an app; here’s a peek |work=TechCrunch |date=2018-08-03 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/03/facebook-dating-feature/ |language=en-US |accessdate=2018-08-05 |df=mdy-all }}
- {{Cite web |last1=Constine |first1=Josh |title=Inside Facebook Dating, launching first in Colombia |work=TechCrunch |date=2018-09-20 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/how-facebook-dating-works/ |language=en-US |accessdate=2018-09-29 |df=mdy-all }}
- {{Cite web |last1=Harwell |first1=Drew |last2=Dwoskin |first2=Elizabeth |title=Facebook’s dating service is a chance to meet the catfisher, advertiser or scammer of your dreams |work=Washington Post |date=2018-05-03 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/05/03/facebooks-dating-service-is-a-chance-to-meet-the-catfisher-advertiser-or-scammer-of-your-dreams/ |language=en |accessdate=2018-08-05 |df=mdy-all }}
- {{Cite news |last1=Matsakis |first1=Louise |title=Facebook Is Testing Its Dating Service. Here’s How It’s Different From Tinder |work=Wired |date=2018-09-20 |url=https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-dating-how-it-works/ |issn=1059-1028 |df=mdy-all }}
- {{Cite web |last1=Price |first1=Rob |title=Here's our first look at Facebook's dating feature, now being tested by its employees |work=Business Insider |date=2018-08-03 |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-dating-testing-feature-reverse-engineer-2018-8 |accessdate=2018-08-05 |df=mdy-all }}
- {{Cite web |last1=Statt |first1=Nick |title=Facebook is taking on Tinder with new dating features |work=The Verge |date=2018-05-01 |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/1/17307782/facebook-tinder-dating-app-f8-match-okcupid |accessdate=2018-08-04 |df=mdy-all }}
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