How To Setup Your Profile

 

For now, the service is only available on mobile and doesn’t require any extra downloads. It’s built directly into the main Facebook app.

1 Open Facebook app, you can find it by navigating to the top right menu in the same place as marketplace and groups.

2 Click on “Dating Icon

According to Facebook, the service operates independently from main Facebook profiles, and it is not scraped for information that can be used to target ads. Of course, that could change in the future.

Users who create a dating profile can select the information on their Facebook profile that they’d like to feature, including whether they share with their dating prospects mutual friends on the platform. They won’t see anyone they’re already friends with on Facebook or anyone they’ve blocked.

3 Click “Get Started”

Profiles are initially auto-populated using first names only. Users then have the option to add location, gender, height, religion, job title, company, schools and whether or not they have children, as well as other information that is fairly common among other dating apps. For example, users can pick whom they’re interested in dating from a selection that includes everyone, all women, trans women, all men and trans men. Users can choose to display their own gender identity as cis woman, trans woman, cis man, trans man or nonbinary.

4 Select “Preview Suggested Profile” or “Complete Profile Manually”

Profiles are initially auto-populated using first names only. Users then have the option to add location, gender, height, religion, job title, company, schools and whether or not they have children, as well as other information that is fairly common among other dating apps. For example, users can pick whom they’re interested in dating from a selection that includes everyone, all women, trans women, all men and trans men. Users can choose to display their own gender identity as cis woman, trans woman, cis man, trans man or nonbinary.

5 Be more specific

6 Up to nine photos can be used in a profile as well as an ice-breaker question such as, “What three emoji best describe you?” Once completed, Facebook’s dating algorithm selects and displays potential matches.

From this point on, Facebook Dating looks nearly identical to other dating services. You can choose to match with people who live nearby, share the same religion or fit certain physical attributes. Notably, searches for specific ethnicities is not an option.

Rather than swiping left or right, users click a heart button to indicate interest or an “X” to pass. The option to like specific content on a person’s profile, such as a photo or the answer to one of the ice-breaker questions, is available. This is similar to the way that the Hinge dating app works.