Comments on: You Got Your Match in My Facebook

By: Thread and Facebook, Perfect Together?

Thread and Facebook, Perfect Together? — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:59:38 +0000

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By: Kam K

Kam K — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:01:35 +0000

Ross Williams’ analogy sounds just perfect. Dating sites and social networking sites may never integrate. On one you update your activities without putting in lot of thoughts, post any kind of pictures just for your friends but on the other you want to impress that stranger who could be your dating / life partner. The two may never gel. And as has been pointed out in many times before, social networking sites and dating sites have varied age group. Facebook and myspace audience is younger, whereas dating sites audience is little mature, very different thought process, very different lifestyle.

By: free dating

free dating — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:50:22 +0000

I think integrating dating and social networking creates the perfect environment for people to set their own pace.

By: David Evans

David Evans — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:54:02 +0000

Good points Ross. Agree about larger verticals. In the case of dating, Facebook can make the search for people more anonymous. Problem solved.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:17:42 +0000

I think a lot of people want the anonymity of dating sites, not to lie about who they are but so friends and family don’t know every detail of their dating life.

By: Ross Williams - WhiteLabelDating.com

Ross Williams - WhiteLabelDating.com — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:29:28 +0000

David, it’s the same difference as Facebook vs LinkedIn – I think people want very separate information in their dating life to their personal social life – like they want different information in their professional (LinkedIn) life.

There are some good dating applications on Facebook – there’s about to be some more very good dating apps – and this seems to be working for everyone.

There are bigger verticals for Facebook to tap into first (email, classifieds, jobs) and I’d expect them to go for these before dating. There’s also a bit legislative headache appearing with dating that I suspect Facebook wouldn’t want to get into – with their mass of members and total lack of customer support they could be up the creek if they go into dating.

Ross

By: Christian single

Christian single — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:30:01 +0000

I think integrating a social network and an online dating site can be fun and interesting but the off side of it, there will be more vulgar and lewd photos will be posted in each profile just to catch attention and it is not a good thing because there are some minors joining the site.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:32:34 +0000

I personally feel that dating sites and social sites are inherently different. People want to keep the two separated, and every person I have talked to about this agrees with me. I think opening up facebook to strangers allows them way too much information than people are comfortable with.

Also I noticed on my online dating girls Facebook and Myspace profiles tend to be much less conservative than their online dating profile. Not sure why that is, but you will say way more pictures of them partying drinking, in bikinis on Facebook, than you will on match.

By: casualencounters.com/blog/

casualencounters.com/blog/ — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:32:03 +0000

Yeah the lack of a skin override on MySpace is what really makes it suck. That and the fact that they STILL haven’t figure out a way to fix the music autoplay.

By: XkiD | You Got Your Match in My Facebook | blog.xkid.ro

XkiD | You Got Your Match in My Facebook | blog.xkid.ro — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:29:45 +0000

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