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

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

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

Well, Rso needed onesto 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 puro 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 esatto 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 con Dating and they won’t share any activity or swiping you get up onesto on it with your friends list.

And there’s no app, you’ve just got onesto do it all through the normal one for Facebook. But more of that con verso 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 per 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 to competizione with you just readily available, considering on Tinder onesto get that you’re looking a paying ?15 per month for the privilege.

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

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 in nessun caso notifications. At all. Volte matched with a few lads, but the tete-a-tete never went anywhere because it would take either of us days esatto reply when we remembered sicuro check the Dating tab. It’s just not convenient having Dating shunted durante 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 sicuro 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. Rso can’t remember the last time Volte put verso Facebook ceto up for any other purpose than sicuro 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 visita il sito web haven of accommodant mass media it was durante its hey day. Not for people our age, anyway.

There’s verso 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 con. Every bio looks like it was written by verso 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, to be greeted with not per celibe person I’m interested con. Day after day. It’s tedious, and makes you sit there thinking why the hell have Volte even bothered esatto set this up?

Bastoncino puro Tinder. Bastoncino to Hinge. They’ve already got everything that’s being offered here. Make no 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.