Facebook took advantage of its F8 conference to make an announcement that fleshed out Facebook Dating's offer - the "dating" version of the social network. This feature is Secret Crush. The principle ? The user adds up to 9 people for whom he / she has a crush. Other users do the same, so if two people have added each other, they "match" a bit like other dating apps.
Facebook is playing Tinder with Secret Crush
Both birds receive a notification, just to discuss it on Messenger. The principle of the lists may seem a regressive nothing - after all, who has never seen such things during his college and high school years? - it's more or less the way industry leaders like Tinder work. But we know the propensity of Facebook to occupy the most space possible, even walk on the borders of competitors. Snapchat, for example, has already paid for it many times.
Still, for now neither Facebook Dating nor the Secret Crush feature are available in France. Facebook is showing a particularly cautious roll-out, with only a handful of countries available - including even the United States for the moment. Facebook Dating is available in Colombia, Thailand, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam and Surinam.
The device also raises fears about the security of data from the service. First because it seems, on paper, possible to hijack Secret Crush, by testing some of your Facebook friends. Then, because we know very well that even when Facebook ensures that the data is safe, and minimizes the scope of possible malicious use, scandals like Cambridge Analytica break out.
The question is whether, in addition to the data that you have already made available to Facebook, you want to offer the service to your sentimental data ... What do you think? Share your opinion in the comments.
