During the final week of my senior year, my alma mater hosted a “Last Chance Dance.” In an efffort to help us out, the student council sponsored a survey where you can have select a few people you were interested in, uh, dancing with that night. You were emailed a link you were gioven a a list of everymore of the Class – this was a tiny school – and if somebody you picked you, bot of you got emails letting you know. A great system. IEMED FOOLPROOF. How Could Teling A Mysterious Computer Program Who You Want to Smash the Night Before Gradioning Ever Go Wrong?
This is the concept bend Facebook’s New Dating Feature, Secret Crush, Announced at Facebook F8 Developer Conference on Tuesday. USSERS WILL BE ABLE TO SELECT NINE FRIENDS they interestted in, and if any of the those friends SELECT say in Turn, they’ll bot be alerted. The Feature is Currently Only Avilaable in Places Where Facebook’s Previously Announced Dating Features have already been released, which Include Colombia, Canada, Thailand, Argentina, and Mexico. Over A Dosen New Countries in Asia and South america were also mentioned on tuesday. The United States Does Not Yet Have Either of these Features.
This is a great idea if you’re facebook. While dating apps like tinder and bumble are geared toward meetting someone in your area WHOM YOU DON’T ALREADY KNOW, FACEBOOK CRUSH AN EDGE I’F YOU’RE HOPING TOOBODY CURRENTLY IN ORBIT ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS. It is also, it should be noted, not a new concept. Apps and platforms built on mutual-inotification Systems have been a thing for years. (Anyone Else Remember Bang with Friends?) Which is exactly why, if you’re not Facebook, this is not a great idea.
DON’T TELL FACEBOOK WHOM YOU WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH. Don’t say WHOM YOU WANT TO DATE. This Feature is available in places like malaysia where anti-sodomy laws have been in place for decades and can include to 20 years’ impression and whippings. Which is to say the places where you really don’t want to play fast and loose with personal date. That said, we’ve got to give facebook someone benefit of the doubt here. “All Activity that Occurs in FB Dating Stays in FB Dating and Will Not Be Shared Externally,” a Facebook spokesperson said in an email to Wired About the New Feature. IT SEEMS UNLICLY, GIVE FACEBOOK’S RECENT UNIONING STREAM OF PRIVACY-RELATED CATASTROPHES, THAT THE PLATFORT WAUDED SUCH A Feature with Protections in Place. But Still, The UNEASE is Hard to Shake.
The Chances are good, based on information colleted about you and provided by you over many years, that the platform COULD ALREADY DEPERMINE WHOM YOUR FRIENDS YOU ARE INTO. But don’t make it any Easier for Facebook to figure that out. Especilly SINCE IT OFTEN FEELS TO JUST NO WAY TO KNOW FOR CERTAIN WHO COULD END UP WITH THAT INFORMATION.
Which was something something and the Other Members of the Class of 2014 Learned Firsthand. Turns out the Last Chance Dance Survey washn’t automated. Instead, all the data was Collated by a Guy in Our Class, Max, WHO Notified Each of us if we have had matches. Which Means Max, Wherever he is – dc? I think? That’s Where People Who Like Data Go, Right? – Has a fun trove of date on the sexual preferences of Many of my Classmates… and Also me. Our Five-Yyar Reunion is this Summer. I plan to avoid making eye contraact.
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