Facebook chooses Canada for Dating feature launch
Let&#x27;s put aside the &quot;Facebook is evil and therefore everything they do is evil&quot; tangents for a minute since if you&#x27;re in that boat then its hard to have a useful discussion about this specific feature. And I want to talk about the details of Dating.<p>Facebook is exactly the right company to pull this off in a way that actually changes the &#x27;industry&#x27;. I really want this to be successful and as good as I hope it can be.<p>* Dating apps live and die by their userbase so we&#x27;re already doing pretty good there.<p>* Using the social graph for matches is <i>brilliant</i> since its actually how people IRL do it and you have a built in endorsement system with mutual friends. Having what amounts to an audit trail of &quot;I know this guy, he&#x27;s cool&quot; gives me a lot more confidence that I&#x27;m not getting into trouble.<p>* More than any other dating platform they have the tools to combat bots and fakes at scale.<p>* Strongly connecting dating with IRL identity is basically mandatory for safety.<p>* Facebook has huge potential to make dating safer by knowing when you&#x27;re  together detecting suspicious activity. Integrating their crisis response system would be a game changer.<p>* Dating apps necessarily collect a lot of user information, there isn&#x27;t much way around it, and for all their faults Facebook has way more experience than anyone else in protecting it.<p>* Good on them for removing picture messages, I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;m ever happy to receive unsolicited dick pics.