Facebook also took necessary precautions to separate the main Facebook profile from the Facebook Dating profile

Facebook Dating Profile Quality

• Facebook and Facebook Dating profiles are completely separate
• The feature offers non-binary genders and sexual orientations
• You can upload photos on Dating that are already on Facebook
• There are 20 personality questions you can answer
• You have to manually input personal information

• The profiles are quite detailed
• Profile pictures are visible to everyone for free

Once you have created your profile, you must verify your city’s location. It is easily done using your phone’s location services. Although some people are nervous since both functions are available in just one app, the developers squash those fears by separating the two accounts–profile-wise and inbox-wise.

Your Dating profile will not be seen by your friends and users who are not on the dating feature. It will not show up on the newsfeed for privacy. Information from your Facebook profile will not be automatically synced, too. You must manually input important personal details such as bio, workplace, children, religion, education, height and etc. These are not mandatory so you can get to choose which information you’d like to share on this platform.

Facebook Dating offers inclusivity by having nonbinary genders and sexual orientations as options. You can upload photos from your Facebook account–the ones you’ve uploaded yourself, pictures you’ve been tagged in, and the ones cross. You can also answer personality questions such as, “What song always makes you sing along? How loud?” to make your profile more attractive and personal. This also optimises that matchmaking process. So far, there are only 20 available questions that can be answered.

Special Features

Facebook Dating offers fun, interactive features that can help you have an overall positive user experience. Here are some of them:

On Pause

We have all felt the need to detoxify ourselves from social media at a certain point. The level of noise and stimulants can be a bit too much, so we opt for a healthy social media break from time to time.

With that in mind, Facebook Dating has a pause feature where you can literally pause your online dating activity without actually deactivating your account. You can still message the people you’ve been matched with while taking your much-needed pause.

Second Look

This feature is located in Facebook Dating’s settings. The Second Look displays people in a reverse chronological order for you to, well, take a second look. This feature allows you to go through your Suggested Matches once again and see if there are good matches you may have missed out on.

Preemptive Block List

You can review your block lists to ensure you don’t get matched with people who aren’t your Facebook friends and yet you still don’t want to see. This can be an ex-lover that you’ve unfriended but not blocked on Facebook, a family member, or simply an acquaintance.

To further strengthen the people’s trust in Facebook’s latest project in the dating community, preemptive blocking is a cool way of ensuring that you won’t be able to see unwelcome people in your matches-something that has been plaguing the online daters for a while now.

Profile Content

There are tappable entry points displayed on profiles which you can use to strike a conversation such as school and shared hometowns. Since Facebook Dating values quality relationships over casual flings, it provides you with features, such as this interactive profile content, that guarantees to help you build a strong foundation with your potential match.

Secret Crush

This feature allows you to select up to nine Facebook friends you can express interest on but that crush must be mutual first. This means that if you pick a person and that person happens to also like you, Facebook will match you together and reveal your names. If the feelings are one-sided, nothing happens, sadly.