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annother is offline annother Post #1  June 4,2010, 6:35am
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A few posts have mentioned Facebook and I wonder if anyone has met a date there.

If so, how? Do you have a separate Facebook account just for meeting people, or do you use the same one you use for family and friends?
 
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I do not do Facebook but in what I have read about Facebook on these Advice boards I get the feeling that Facebook is a very large detriment to dating.
 
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I recently posted a thread about a site that was created as a way to link up friends of friends on FB who are single and interested in dating to see what others thought of it. Login to Thread

I've not tried it myself, but was curious to know if others had/would, what the pros and cons might be, and whether others had met someone special just from inquiring about a friend's friend, etc.

I'm fairly new to FB and my friends list is limited to mostly family, but I can see how this might work if the connection was made between two people who are known fairly well by the person introducing them, and/or might have known of each other beforehand (living near and having seen each other in passing, etc.)but never had the opportunity to actually meet.
 
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No, but I have set people up through Facebook.
 
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I met two women at a restaurant bar one night and we started chatting. They were partners and so weren't interested in me...but after we talked for awhile and had a few drinks together they noticed some things I had in common with a straight friend of theirs and decided to set us up. One of them took my number and told me to look the girl up on Facebook...so I did. She had an interesting profile, was reasonably cute and we did have a few mutual interests - music, books, hobbies, etc. The girl called me a week or so later and we arranged to meet up for a dinner date. The date itself was kind of boring...we just didn't "click" conversationally...so I thanked her for a nice evening and that was that.

It wasn't precisely the same as using Facebook solely as a matching tool. In this case the women were the matchmakers and Facebook was just the medium for delivery of a profile.

I would think it would be hard to use Facebook as a dating resource simply because in order to view someone's profile you'd have to be "Friends" with them first...which would seemingly require an intermediary, unless you're in the habit of spamming friend requests to random people with non-public profiles.
 
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Gr8Guyn2008 wrote :
I do not do Facebook but in what I have read about Facebook on these Advice boards I get the feeling that Facebook is a very large detriment to dating.
Why?
 
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I never have, but I suppose it is possible. I just wouldn't use it to actively seek dating partners because that isn't what it is designed for.
 
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annother wrote :
A few posts have mentioned Facebook and I wonder if anyone has met a date there.

If so, how? Do you have a separate Facebook account just for meeting people, or do you use the same one you use for family and friends?
Do you mean getting a date with a total stranger, or using the site to connect with someone you already know, then ask her out?

I'm not sure how the first way would work- do you send friend requests to random people or what?
 
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derek74 wrote :
I would think it would be hard to use Facebook as a dating resource simply because in order to view someone's profile you'd have to be "Friends" with them first...which would seemingly require an intermediary, unless you're in the habit of spamming friend requests to random people with non-public profiles.
Who can view the profile depends on the privacy settings. Anyone on FB can send a friend request to anyone else, so the word "spamming" is not relevant. That's why it's called a social network, not an antisocial network.
 
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No, but I only use Facebook to keep in touch with people I already know - not to meet new ones.
 
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