<story><title>Facebook Dating</title><url>https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/09/facebook-dating/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>donatj</author><text>This seems like something they should have added ten plus years ago, when their demo was primarily college kids.&lt;p&gt;I know many people who were clamoring for it at the time. It would have been an obvious addition as dating and relationships were a large part of the reason a lot of people &lt;i&gt;used&lt;/i&gt; Facebook. I half suspect this is an attempt to pull college kids back into Facebook.&lt;p&gt;I think they missed their chance with this by a long shot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>This &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; what Facebook was ten years ago. The problem is dating wasn&amp;#x27;t as successfully monetized as it is today. Tinder&amp;#x2F;Bumble&amp;#x2F;CMB etc. have cracked that code, and Facebook wants to get in on it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook Dating</title><url>https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/09/facebook-dating/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>donatj</author><text>This seems like something they should have added ten plus years ago, when their demo was primarily college kids.&lt;p&gt;I know many people who were clamoring for it at the time. It would have been an obvious addition as dating and relationships were a large part of the reason a lot of people &lt;i&gt;used&lt;/i&gt; Facebook. I half suspect this is an attempt to pull college kids back into Facebook.&lt;p&gt;I think they missed their chance with this by a long shot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jayd16</author><text>No way.  This is looking at yesterday&amp;#x27;s decisions from today&amp;#x27;s zeitgeist.  Without Grindr and Tinder and the other apps paving the way culturally, Facebook date would have creeped out their user base.</text></comment>