When we talk about applications and services that allow you to find “love” online, the first option that comes to mind is Tinder. However, Facebook wants to change all this and after launching Dating in the United States, Facebook Couples now comes and this is all that the rival of Tinder offers.
What is Facebook Dating
Facebook Dating is the new functionality or service that Mark Zuckerberg’s company has integrated into its well-known social network. A tool that had previously been released in the United States and other countries under the name of Dating. Now the service is expanding throughout Europe and officially reaches.
The idea behind Facebook Couples is identical to that of Tinder , although it can be somewhat less violent for many users who are looking for love online. And that can work in your favor, because even today there are those who do not dare to create a profile on this popular dating service due to the negative connotation it has for many.
Of course, these prejudices should also be eliminated, because not everyone who is on Tinder is looking for fleeting relationships or everyone who will be on Facebook Movie love couples. In the end, these are nothing more than tools that depend on the use given by the users themselves. But hey, let’s keep moving forward.
Facebook Couples is integrated into the Facebook application itself , so you don’t have to download anything. Or rather, all you have to do is update to the latest version of Facebook for iOS and Android. From there, look for the new Couples section (indicated by a heart icon) within the three-striped menu that you will see in the app interface.
First steps on Facebook Couples
With less friction and a “violent” feeling compared to using Tinder, Facebook Couples will allow you to meet other people and from there whatever comes up comes up. But how does it really work? Let’s see the first steps.
Being integrated into Facebook, all you have to do is access Couples. The first time you do it, you will have to answer a series of initial questions that will serve as a starting point for a first approach to those other users who live in your area and share some common interests.
The first thing that will be asked is information related to your name, age, job and preferences . By default it will show the ones you already have on your Facebook profile, but if you want to change something you can do it. That sometimes we don’t say in public everything we really like.
Once that first step is already taken, you have to continue answering other questions where you are asked things like what languages you speak or what you are looking for. You know, if you want a friendly relationship, something informal, stable, just to talk, etc. Likewise, you will also have to indicate if you are looking for a man, a woman or it is indifferent to you.
All of these questions are helpful to get you started, but if you don’t want to answer them they can be skipped . Of course, depending on where you live, the number of opportunities to find a person related to you may be reduced if you don’t. Even if you do what you do, from your own profile you can edit all this at any time.
After a few more personal questions, you are ready to start searching and also being found by other people who use the new service. But, who can locate you within Facebook Couples , which one do you have in your Facebook contacts?
Facebook Couples and your contacts or friends
When it comes to looking for a partner online, there are still many prejudices that make some people prefer to hide that they are on services like Tinder. Therefore, in the case of Facebook Couples, the company has decided to isolate you from your contacts or friends within Facebook. Still, it is important to know who may or may not see your Couples profile.
For starters, anyone you have on your friends list won’t be able to see your Facebook Couples profile . Neither are those people you decide to block for whatever time. The rest of the user who join Couples will be able to see your profile until the moment you block or add as a friend to your main Facebook account.
However, there is an exception that they call Secret Passion , a list of up to nine Facebook friends that attract you. If they like you too, you’ll know.
How to flirt on Facebook Couples
If you have ever used Tinder or been told about how it works, you will be familiar with the term Match . This is nothing more than starting to see profiles of other users, such as who sees an Instagram timeline, and the moment you find someone who attracts you, you give Match to see if that leads to the beginning of something.
On Facebook Couples flirting involves talking . You must send a first message that will arrive with your profile photo to that new user. That is, something similar to how you would do it in real life with that first approach. The difference is that you are somewhat more protected by the screen of your device, but you will have to chat if you want everything to flow.
For the rest, there are not many more secrets within this new option with which Facebook wants to offer a real alternative to Tinder, with its own advantages and the occasional disadvantage depending on how you look at it. Well yes, one, and that is that these Couples Facebook profiles can be created and deleted at any time without having to cancel your Facebook profile.