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At the annual F8 conference in May, Facebook revealed that it was working on a dating service for its users. The feature which is currently being tested internally by Facebook workers, allows users to specify if they want to match with people with mutual friends and choose from five genders: "trans woman", "woman", "trans man", "man" and "non binary people".
The feature will be based inside Facebooks main app and not a separate app like Tinder. The feature is not ready for the public yet, but company employees are now internally testing it though theyre warned that its not for dating their co workers.
Once you opt in to activating Facebook Dating, only other people who have also turned it on will be able to see you, and it wont be shared to News Feed. You can choose if friends of friends can see you or not. Youll unlock Groups or Events youre a part of for Dating, and youll be able to browse potential matches based on the plethora of info Facebook knows about you. If two people express interest in each other, they can text each other over Messenger or WhatsApp.
Facebook is considering a limit on how many people you can express interest in, which would prevent a spammy behavior of rapidly approving everyone you see. Dating will be 18+ only in the U.S. and abide by local laws on who is considered an adult.
The fact that Facebook Dating is testing internally does not necessarily mean that it will launch to the public. Products are often killed before they are released based on what companies find during testing.
