In it's bid to increase social engagements, the World's biggest Social networking site, Facebook is already putting finishing touches to it's dating App. The App is currently undergoing internal testing at the company.
At it's F8 conference in May, 2018, Facebook hinted of it's dating application, which inadvertently would threaten Tinder, the social dating website.
According to Zuckerberg, “This is going to be for building real, long-term relationships — not just for hookups. We have designed this with privacy and safety in mind from the beginning. Your friends aren’t going to see your profile, and you’re only going to be suggested to people who are not your friends.”
Application Researcher Jan Wong, disclosed through a series of tweets about the App going through a series of testing with facebook staff.
Facebook is internally testing Facebook Dating.
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) August 3, 2018
I can't go past the signup screen because they are not activating all non-employee Dating profiles because, well, it's "pre-launch" ;) pic.twitter.com/VQFHUJIkuX
According to Techcrunch, facebook will allow people to intentionally create a dating profile on Facebook. Matching will be done based on some set of user preferences and It will be visible to non-friends who also opted into dating.