Niente affatto. Of course Volte didn’t have high hopes for Facebook Dating. But what Volte did have was per great deal of morbid curiosity, and an insatiable desire for attention.
Rso find it hard esatto not give a new dating app vibe a try. You really do just never know how they’re going puro be. I’ve had them all, onesto varying success. Grindr is cursed but Rso enjoy the attention and, well, the nudes. Tinder is verso glitchy mess but the majority of people looking for love are on it, so the talent pool is wide and there’s always someone onesto confronto with. Rso met my ora non piu on Hinge, and think it’s actually got the perfected norma for verso good dating app.
But what about Facebook Dating? Is it any good? It’s been out con Europe since , so why’ve Rso never heard anything from it?
Well, Rso needed puro find out for my own peace of mind. I’ve been playing about on it Facebook Dating for just over verso week now, and this is my final verdict on if it’s worth bothering.
Setting up my profile
Preciso do it, you head esatto the menu section on the Facebook app, and you should see per tab for Dating just under Memories on the right hand side. Once you click on that, you’ll be walked through the steps on how sicuro get going. It’s the usual stuff that you’d find on Tinder or Hinge; education, smoker/non smoker, bios. It lets you do verso mix of pictures and discussion starters, like Hinge. The gang’s all here.
The feature stresses from the start that it won’t suggest current Facebook friends in Dating and they won’t share any activity or swiping you get up onesto on it with your friends list.
And there’s per niente app, you’ve just got puro do it all through the normal one for Facebook. But more of that per per bit.
Is there any good stuff about Facebook Dating?
The major one is that unlike Tinder, you can see who’s liked you. When you go on to Facebook Dating, there are three tabs: Profile, Liked You and Matches. On Liked You, you’ll get a number of your likes and then you can swipe exclusively through them durante a Tinder-esque style.
It’s definitely per great thing seeing all the people that want to competizione with you just readily available, considering on Tinder esatto get that you’re looking per paying ?15 verso month for the privilege.
I’m not sure if this next one is a utilita or a con. Volte guess it would depend on where you fall on the matter. But it’s one of Facebook Dating’s most unique features, so I’ve gotta mention it.
FB Dating has a feature called Secret Crush. With this feature, it lets you add up sicuro nine of your Facebook friends or Instagram followers as secret crushes. They’ll get verso notification saying “someone’s added you as per secret crush in Dating”. If they also end up adding you as a secret crush on their Facebook Dating, you’ll competizione.
So if you can face up esatto your crush knowing you use Facebook Dating, this is the feature for you!
The bad
First of all, the lack of app means giammai notifications. At all. I matched with per few lads, but the tete-a-tete never went anywhere because it would take either of us days esatto reply when we remembered puro check the Dating tab. It’s just not convenient having Dating shunted sopra this little tab on the main app, and I think it’d be a big improvement if it had its own app like Facebook Messenger does.
But the biggest bad with Facebook Dating actually has very little puro do with the service itself. It’s onesto do with the people who use it.
Facebook isn’t the young person hotspot it once was when we were teenagers. Volte can’t remember the last time I put verso Facebook ceto up for any other purpose than preciso broadly inform family members and older acquaintances Rso know that 
There’s per reason none of your mates talk about that fit lad they’re obsessed with that they’ve spent all night talking preciso on Facebook Dating. It just doesn’t happen.
I’ve spent per good while over the last week swiping on Facebook Dating, and it’s boring. The people who use it blend into one. Everyone looks like they’ve never left the town they were born per. Every bio looks like it was written by per bot. It’s the kind of thing you sit and scroll on and end up sending your mental health into an existential crisis.
On several occasions, I’d go on Dating and see Volte had around 30 likes. I’d clear through them, excited sicuro swipe and find my next fella, preciso be greeted with not a single person I’m interested per. Day after day. It’s tedious, and makes you sit there thinking why the hell have I even bothered to attrezzi this up?
Bastoncino esatto Tinder. Bastoncino esatto Hinge. They’ve already got everything that’s being offered here. Make niente affatto mistake, all dating apps are quite cursed. But at least on the tried and tested classics you might find someone actually worth going for a drink with.
