Rso tried Facebook Dating so you don’t ever have esatto put yourself through it

Mai. Of course I didn’t have high hopes for Facebook Dating. But what Rso did have was verso great deal of morbid curiosity, and an insatiable desire for attention.

Rso find it hard puro not give verso new dating app vibe per try. You really do just never know how they’re going to be. I’ve had them all, to varying success. Grindr is cursed but I 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 sicuro incontro with. Volte met my ora non piu on Hinge, and think it’s actually got the perfected frase for per good dating app.

But what about Facebook Dating? Is it any good? It’s been out in Europe since , so why’ve I never heard anything from it?

Well, Volte needed esatto find out for my own peace of mind. I’ve been playing about on it Facebook Dating for just over a week now, and this is my final verdict on if it’s worth bothering.

Setting up my profile

Sicuro do it, you head esatto the menu section on the Facebook app, and you should see a 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 preciso 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 conciliabule starters, like Hinge. The gang’s all here.

The feature stresses from the start that it won’t suggest current Facebook friends mediante Dating and they won’t share any activity or swiping you get up puro on it with your friends list.

And there’s niente affatto app, you’ve just got puro do it all through the normal one for Facebook. But more of that in a 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 puro 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 in per Tinder-esque style.

It’s definitely verso great thing seeing all the people that want onesto match with you just readily available, considering on Tinder puro get that you’re looking a paying ?15 per month for the privilege.

I’m not sure if this next one is verso per or a per. I 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 verso feature incontri detenuti called Secret Crush. With this feature, it lets you add up esatto 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 mediante Dating”. If they also end up adding you as a secret crush on their Facebook Dating, you’ll incontro.

So if you can face up puro your crush knowing you use Facebook Dating, this is the feature for you!

The bad

First of all, the lack of app means per niente notifications. At all. Rso matched with verso few lads, but the discussion never went anywhere because it would take either of us days puro reply when we remembered preciso check the Dating tab. It’s just not convenient having Dating shunted in this little tab on the main app, and Rso think it’d be per big improvement if it had its own app like Facebook Messenger does.

But the biggest bad with Facebook Dating actually has very little to do with the service itself. It’s puro do with the people who use it.

Facebook isn’t the young person hotspot it once was when we were teenagers. Rso can’t remember the last time I put a Facebook ceto up for any other purpose than puro broadly inform family members and older acquaintances Rso know that perhaps don’t use Instagram or Twitter of anything important per my life. New jobs, moving cities. That kind of thing. Facebook isn’t really the scrolling haven of agreable mezzi di comunicazione it was con its hey day. Not for people our age, anyway.

There’s a reason none of your mates talk about that fit lad they’re obsessed with that they’ve spent all night talking esatto on Facebook Dating. It just doesn’t happen.

I’ve spent verso 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 in. Every bio looks like it was written by a 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 esatto swipe and find my next fella, onesto be greeted with not a single person I’m interested in. Day after day. It’s tedious, and makes you sit there thinking why the hell have Rso even bothered puro servizio this up?

Stick to Tinder. Bastoncino preciso Hinge. They’ve already got everything that’s being offered here. Make per niente 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 bevanda with.