Three big questions we still have about Facebook’s new dating service

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At its annual F8 developer conference on Tuesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook is creating a dating service. 

What this means is that you’ll soon be able to create a “dating” profile separate from your Facebook profile. Facebook will then recommend matches based on dating preferences, interests, and mutual friends. You’ll also be able to discover potential matches in your events and groups. 

That’s about all we know about this dating service for now, and, needless to say, we have a lot of questions. Here are three of our biggest:

1) Will our dating data be secure?

Facebook claims that the same privacy protections that apply to Facebook will apply to its dating feature. But if there’s one thing we’ve learned about Facebook in the past few months, it’s that those privacy protections are, well…in need of improvement.  Read more…

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