Facebook broke the news at its annual developer conference today.
“There are 200 million people on Facebook who list themselves as single. So clearly there’s something to do here,” he told the crowd.
Zuckerberg said the service will aim to help people find “real long-term relationships – not just hookups”. Personally, I’m not sure that I want my dating app to immediately deliver me into a long term relationship, but Facebook is gonna do what it wants.
The dating app hasn’t been released yet, so we don’t know heaps about it, but Facebook is promising that it will be safe and private. It sounds like it will be part of Facebook itself, but also separate from the other stuff you do on the platform. Your friends, for instance, won’t be able to see your dating profile, and won’t come up as potential matches. Oh, and it will apparently just be called “Dating”.
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