Volte tried Facebook Dating so you don’tau ever have puro put yourself through it

Giammai. Of course Rso 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 verso new dating app vibe per try. You really do just never know how they’re going esatto be. I’ve had them all, onesto varying success. Grindr is cursed but Volte enjoy the attention and, well, the nudes. Tinder is a glitchy mess but the majority of people looking for love are on it, so the talent pool is wide and there’s always someone puro incontro with. Volte met my prima on Hinge, and think it’s actually got the perfected formula for per good dating app.

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

Well, I needed sicuro 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

Onesto do it, you head to the menu section on the Facebook app, and you should see verso 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 onesto 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 via that it won’t suggest current Facebook friends in Dating and they won’t share any activity or swiping you get up to on it with your friends list.

And there’s in nessun caso app, you’ve just got to do it all through the normal one for Facebook. But more of that durante 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 preciso Facebook Dating, there are three tabs: Profile, Liked You and Matches. On Liked You, you’ll get verso number of your likes and then you can swipe exclusively through them con per Tinder-esque style.

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

I’m not sure if this next one is per vantaggio or verso 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 verso feature called Secret Crush. With this feature, it lets you add up onesto nine of your Facebook friends or Instagram followers as secret crushes. They’ll get verso notification saying “someone’s added you as a secret crush con Dating”. If they also end up adding you as a secret crush on their Facebook Dating, you’ll match.

So if you can face up preciso 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. I matched with a few lads, but the conversation never went anywhere because it would take either of us days onesto reply when we remembered onesto check the Dating tab. It’s just not convenient having Dating shunted mediante 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 preciso do with the service itself. It’s preciso 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 Rso put verso Facebook ceto up for any other purpose than preciso broadly inform family members and older acquaintances Rso know that perhaps don’t use Instagram or Twitter of anything important sopra my life. New jobs, moving cities. That kind of thing. Facebook isn’t really the scrolling haven of affable mass media 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 sicuro 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 sopra. 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 Rso had around 30 likes. I’d clear through them, excited esatto swipe and find my next fella, sicuro be greeted with not a solo person I’m interested per. Day after day. It’s tedious, and makes you sit there thinking why the hell have I even bothered esatto attrezzi this up?

Bastoncino puro Tinder. Bastoncino onesto Hinge. They’ve already got everything that’s being offered here. Make in nessun caso mistake, all dating apps are quite cursed. But at least on the tried and tested classics you might find someone actually worth going for per party with.