Facebook Launches Dating Service in United States

Facebook Launches Dating Service in United States
Facebook's Fidji Simo speaks about the Facebook Dating app during Facebook's annual F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, on April 30, 2019. Stephen Lam/Reuters
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Facebook is launching its dating services in the United States, the social network said on Thursday, Sept. 5, sending its shares up 2 percent.

The company said users would be able to integrate their Instagram accounts with Facebook’s dating profile and add Instagram followers to their “Secret Crush” lists. That feature allows users to indicate romantic interest in a friend, without the attraction becoming public. If two friends each tag the other as a crush, Facebook Dating alerts both to the interest.