Facebook Dating is rolling out and the social networking giant has some interesting features, but it lacks the demographic coverage, know-how and dating data that Match and its army of sites such as Tinder have.
karen roby : From like to love we're talking about Facebook dating. Of course, this is the new dating site that Facebook is rolling out here Larry dignity with me to talk about this Larry. Let me just ask you right off the bat. Did you see this coming? Is this something that you just knew what eventually happened that they would be capitalizing on the ability for people to find love their Facebook. larry dignan : I think Facebook had to go here because they know Facebook was being used for dating in the first place and they have so much data on folks that why not hook up an algorithm to it and try to make some money. So Facebook dating is sort of it sort of has a Sandbox. That's a little separate than Facebook. But the idea is that they can match you with like friends of friends and and basically FInd matches for you. And the consensus view which is short-sighted as / ludicrous is that Facebook dating is going to be a real pain to match.com and that is so like absurd to me an...