Facebook and Instagram will identify your secret crush as part of new dating service

Facebook declared that it’s introduced a dating service for the United States today, and it prepares to interrupt the already crowded online dating scene.
Users will be able to decide whether they would like to use Facebook’s new feature, that is embedded within the main Facebook app. There’s no waiting or swiping for someone to like you to get a chance to reach out, unlike on apps like Tinder or Bumble, Facebook said in an update. The service can embody variety of safety options, like having the ability to send a disciple info concerning associate approaching date, just in case one thing goes wrong, and block causation photos, videos, links, or payments. Facebook Dating won’t match you with your own friends by default, but there’s a feature that could cause some mayhem in users’ social circles, and a lot of heartache.

It’s called “Secret Crush,” and it permits a user to add up to nine Instagram followers or Facebook friends that they are obsessed for. This app actually will match the two people. The person, who also has to have Facebook Dating enabled, gets notified with only a vague alert that someone has a crush on them, but if they also choose the user as a crush.

This algorithmically-boosted fortune could lead to many happy couplings that would not have happened, because the people concerned were too shy or self-doubting. It could be very sweet and cute. Facebook says in its release that the feature is “popular,” seemingly in the other countries where Dating service has been available prior to the US, like Peru, Brazil, Canada, and Vietnam.

But it might even also have some frightening results: Facebook skeptics instantly observed the possibility of an information breach or bug, which the company has become known for, that, could make their “secret” crushes not so secret.

Others jumped to another dark scenario.

And then there’s the more mundane consideration. “Secret Crush” takes away that painful, but formative experience of yearning for someone without knowing whether they’ll reciprocate, but with a good dose of hope that they do, or one day might. Doesn’t anyone at Facebook remember middle school? It’s one thing to be ignored by a stranger on Tinder, where the stakes are very low, but it’s another to confirm someone you know has absolutely no interest in you.

On the other hand, imagine the crush, who now will be racking their brain, losing sleep over who—among their thousands of friends or followers—had selected them?

It’s a good thing teenagers don’t use Facebook that much anymore.