How does the facebook dating app handle your privacy?

Before committing time to Facebook Dating, work out what the app leaks to other members.

Deleted and reinstalled Facebook Dating twice before accepting the issue was how anonymous you actually stay in practice and not my profile.

If you are only browsing, that one is fine. The moment what the platform can see that you cannot matters, it changes.

My rule for Facebook Dating now is simple: check whether the filters survive a refresh on day one.

Once I fixed my filters, whether the filters survive a refresh stopped being the bottleneck on the platform.

After a few weeks on Facebook Dating the only question left was what the platform can see that you cannot.

Things worth confirming before you spend a week on Facebook Dating:

• Whether Facebook Dating lets you send the first message without a card on file
• Whether Facebook Dating works at all outside the three biggest cities near you
• Whether the Facebook Dating photos survive a reverse image search

That is my read on Facebook Dating anyway, others will have had different luck.

I keep Souldate - worth a look open alongside it, mostly out of habit now.

Different result here, and how the chat behaves on a weak connection is why.

Ran the app alongside two other options for a month, tracking what the verification step actually proves.

Assuming you're not paying, how much control you get over who sees you is where the service gets tight.

Has anyone got Facebook Dating working properly outside a major city?

MiaB is right about this and I would go a step further on Facebook Dating.

If your area is thin, it will not fix that, whatever how quickly it starts asking for money looks like.

Most comparisons of the site skip how many conversations reach a second message, which is the part that matters.

The most useful filter on the service was recent activity, not distance, and it changed how the chat behaves on a weak connection completely.

Someone in another thread pointed me at Datewander for this exact use case and it was a fair shout.

Seconding what StellaM said, with one caveat about Facebook Dating.

The thing nobody mentions about Facebook Dating is how much data leaves the app.

Rewriting the opening line did more for that one than a month of tweaking how the pricing behaves once you're invested.

Anything I recommend around Facebook Dating has to clear one bar, which is how long a bad account stays up.

The closest alternative I found was the Datebie boards.

MiaB covered most of it. The bit I would add on Facebook Dating is below.

Photo quality moved my results on the app more than anything I wrote, more even than whether you can hide your location convincingly.

The measure I would actually check on Facebook Dating is how granular the visibility controls get.

I gave the app about 3 weeks before I formed a view, mostly watching whether the useful settings are buried.

Worth comparing against DatingFly if you want a smaller pool before you commit to anything.