Facebook Is Launching a Dating Site in Canada
In case you didn’t already have the big tech companies all up in your bullshit enough, Facebook has started a dating app and Canada is getting one of the first cracks at this nut.
Heck ya, why not let Big Daddy Facebook help you fuck?
The tech company decided that Canucks would be among the world’s first guinea pigs when it comes to their dating app. Canada, which has 24 million monthly users of Facebook, will be North America’s first country—it’s already been live in Colombia and Thailand. All users 18 and older should have access to the account starting Thursday.
The new dating feature—like a Russian nesting doll of privacy concerns—works like an app within the greater Facebook app. In the sub-app, users are forced to create a new profile—only your first name and age will be visible from this account—the company, in a release, is adamant they will “not share your dating activity to your Facebook Profile [or] News Feed.” The site will suggest users to you from friends of friends or those with similar tastes in events and groups—it won’t match you with anyone in your friend list.
Facebook is a company that has repeatedly proven to be, shall we say, a little sloppy when it comes to the massive amount of data they have lifted from their giant user base. Privacy experts have said that this addition to the Facebook app compounds the privacy risk on the social media platform. Furthermore, it’s been previously reported that Facebook is losing its youth base in dramatically high numbers so, long story short, them having a dating app that matches you with friends of friends only really means one thing.
Get ready to date one of your parent’s weird divorcee friends, fam.
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