{"id":100955,"date":"2020-04-25T08:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T04:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phonezone.ru\/news\/facebook-to-launch-virtual-dating-over-messenger-for-facebook-dating-users\/"},"modified":"2020-04-25T08:03:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T04:03:45","slug":"facebook-to-launch-virtual-dating-over-messenger-for-facebook-dating-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phonezone.ru\/news\/facebook-to-launch-virtual-dating-over-messenger-for-facebook-dating-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to launch \u2018virtual dating\u2019 over Messenger for Facebook Dating users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook  will soon allow users to go on &ldquo;virtual dates,&rdquo; the company announced today. The social network is planning to introduce a new video calling feature that will allow users of its Facebook Dating service to connect and video call over Messenger, as an alternative to going on a real-world date. This sort of feature is much in demand amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced people to stay home and practice social distancing.<br \/>\nBut for online dating apps, which aim to connect people in the real world, it&rsquo;s a significant challenge for their business.<br \/>\nFor the time being, government lockdowns have limited the places where online daters could meet up for their first date. Restaurants, malls, bars and other retail establishments are closed across regions impacted by the coronavirus outbreak. But even when those restrictions lift, many online dating app users will be wary of meeting up with strangers for those first-time, getting-to-know-you dates. Video chat offers a safer option to explore potential connections with their matches.<br \/>\nWhen the new Facebook  Dating feature goes live, online daters will be able to invite a match to a virtual date. The recipient can either choose to accept or decline the offer via a pop-up that appears.<\/p>\n<p>If they accept, the Facebook Dating users will be connected in a video chat powered by Facebook Messenger  in order to get to know one another.<br \/>\nAs the feature is still being developed, Facebook declined to share more specific details about how it will work, in terms of privacy and security features.<br \/>\nFacebook is not the first online dating service to pivot to video as a result of the pandemic. But many rival dating apps were adopting video features well before the coronavirus struck, as well.<br \/>\nBumble,  for example, has offered voice and video calling in its app for roughly a year. The feature there works like a normal phone call or Apple&rsquo;s FaceTime. However, users don&rsquo;t have to share their phone number or other private information, like an email address, which makes it safer.<br \/>\nThe company says use of the feature has spiked over the last two months as users embrace virtual dating.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Match Group  has more recently rolled out video across a number of the dating apps it operates.<br \/>\nThis month, the Match app added video chat that allows users who have already matched to connect over video calls. Match-owned Hinge also rolled out a &ldquo;Dating from Home&rdquo; prompt and is preparing its own live video date feature, as well, Match says. Plenty of Fish (PoF), another Match property, launched live-streaming in March, giving singles a new way to hang out with friends and potential matches.<br \/>\nMatch Group&rsquo;s flagship app Tinder  has not yet embraced live video dates, but still offers a way for users to add video to their profiles. The company couldn&rsquo;t comment on whether or not video dating was in the works for Tinder, but in the post-COVID era, it would be almost bizarre to not offer such feature.<br \/>\nOther dating apps have also launched video dating, including eHarmony  and a number of lesser-known dating apps hoping to now gain traction for their video dating concepts.<br \/>\nFacebook says the feature will roll out in the months ahead and will be available everywhere Facebook Dating is available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guce.techcrunch.com\/consent?brandType=nonEU&#038;done=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch%2Ecom%2F2020%2F04%2F24%2Ffacebook%2Dto%2Dlaunch%2Dvirtual%2Ddating%2Dover%2Dmessenger%2F&#038;gcrumb=yxjX9l0=\">Facebook to launch \u2018virtual dating\u2019 over Messenger for Facebook Dating users<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook will soon allow users to go on &ldquo;virtual dates,&rdquo; the company announced today. The social network is planning to introduce a new video calling feature that will allow users of its Facebook Dating service to connect and video call over Messenger, as an alternative to going on a real-world date. 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