Facebook dating app gets new features – morningtidings

NEW DELHI: Social networking giant Facebook introduced its online dating app in April this year. The app has been developed by Facebook’s internal NPE Team. For those unaware, NPE apps are meant to be new product experiments, which means they are subject to change.
The Facebook dating app is not so popular right now, but the company is adding some new features in order to make virtual dating more useful. The ongoing pandemic situation gave a boost to virtual dating and with these new features in place Facebook wants to get more users to its dating app called — Sparked.
The latest updates bring support for audio dates on the app. The feature will enable users to start an audio conversation with somebody they match. When a user will try to start a call with someone, then the other person will receive an invitation. Users on both the ends can start a conversation after the invitation is accepted.
Along with this, Facebook is also allowing users to set up two additional places in Facebook Dating, where they want to look for matches. The called Match Anywhere aims to make it easier for the users to match up with people who are temporarily staying or working at a different location.
Apart from these two features, Facebook is also introducing a feature called Lucky Pick. According to Facebook, the new feature “allow users to to consider other compatible candidates who may be outside their typical preferences.”
Meanwhile, Facebook updated its data transfer tool — Transfer Your Information (TYI). The new update rolled out includes user experience improvements, two new destinations: Photobucket and Google Calendar, and one new data type: Facebook Events. After this update, Facebook users will not be able to transfer their images to Photobucket and Facebook Events to Google Calendar.