Confinement due to the pandemic has affected various aspects of the daily lives of the world’s population, including interpersonal relationships. In this sense, the large platforms, such as Facebook, have met the ‘new normal’: the social network set up a page for users to get to know each other through short videos. Its use would be free, like most dating apps on the market.
Although the application is not ready yet, some details are known about how it would work: appointments would be carried out by video call, through ‘Sparked’, developed by the team working on experimental applications at Mark Zuckerberg’s company.
The company would be experimenting to offer users new ways to date as people get tired of swiping and sifting through hundreds of profiles. To create the account, a Facebook profile is required. However, the novelty is that there are no public profiles nor does it work with ‘likes’, nor ‘swiping’, or ‘direct messages’, as Tinder does.
Instead, the app would cycle through video speed dating that would last four minutes, will that be enough? The number of video appointments a person would have in each event is not yet clear, but the creators of the application assure that “if both have a good time”, it would be possible to schedule a new appointment that this time lasts ten minutes. If they still want to get to know each other, ‘Sparked‘ would suggest that they can exchange information and keep in touch through other social networks like Instagram, iMessage, or email.
“Video appointments with friendly people”, are the words with which the creators of the new Facebook application describe the novelty. Thus, users who want to access this service would have to indicate what makes them a friendly couple. These responses would then be reviewed by a human in ‘Sparked’ before the appointments are given.
Additionally, as with other dating apps, people must choose whether they want to date men, women, non-binary people and are asked if they would be open to dating trans people.
This is not the first Facebook Dating product, as there is already Facebook Dating that was launched in 2019, but it operates outside of the main application. Despite the fact that the NPE team has launched several applications, none have been successful, so the eyes are on the novelty they are preparing with Sparked.
At the moment there is no application available for iOS or Android, the use is exclusive of the web browser, we will have to wait for the public’s response and the possibility of taking this model, like its other competitors.
Via: TheVerge
