Facebook Dating matches up users on the platform who opted for the service, and connect them by common events; while also allowing the users to see other “daters” who unlocked the same event.
The dating service was first announced at the Facebook's F8 annual conference last year, with initial five countries. But at this year event, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the dating service will be coming to 14 additional countries, bringing the number of supported countries to 19, though still not supported in the United States.
Facebook also added a feature to the dating service, called Secret Crush, that will help users to express what they feel if perhaps they are having a crush on a friend, and don't know how to go about wooing the person.
The feature allows a user to select up to 9 people on the “Secret Crush” list, with each member of the list sent a notification that someone has a crush for them; the idea is that you’ll have somethings in common with the person to match, and you are able to chat with anyone of your “crush” via a text-only messaging within the Facebook Dating app.
Albeit, the messaging feature only work if the selected crush has also activated his/her dating profile, note that the service is different from the regular Facebook profile. But you can add Facebook friends to your crush list even when they are yet to join the dating service.
And the messages sent on the dating service will not open via Messenger, rather there is a new messaging section expressly for Facebook Dating.
Facebook is making a Join Group button to embed on websites so people can easily join from outside the social network. Perhaps, Facebook Dating is a way to woo more young people unto the platform, even as it is only available to users above 18 years of age, and on the mobile app.
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