How to use Facebook “Friendship”

The original intention of Facebook’s “friendship” feature was to help users meet new friends online, and now many people use it to find romantic partners. If you are a Facebook user and have a good understanding of its page layout, you should be able to easily access “Friendship”. Facebook “Friendship” provides new features and matching methods that are not available on other platforms, and it will definitely surprise you online dating experts. Note that the “Friendship” feature is currently only available to adults over the age of 18 in some countries such as the United States, Singapore, and Malaysia. Let’s learn about Facebook’s “Friendship” and some of the features you can take advantage of.

Method 1: create dating profile

You can access “Friendship” from the Facebook application, but you need to create a dating profile that is different from the Facebook homepage. The “Friendship” feature can only be accessed through the app and cannot be found on a laptop or desktop computer, so make sure you have downloaded the Facebook app to your mobile device.
First open the Facebook application. Click on the pull-down menu in the upper right corner of the screen. Click on the “Friendship” section to start creating your own dating profile.
Facebook will guide you to improve your dating profile in the next few steps. Only age and name will automatically read the data on Facebook’s personal homepage, and you will fill in all other information, including your own gender and the gender of your friends (will not be displayed publicly). After that, Facebook will ask you to fill in the area where you are and upload a photo. After clicking “Confirm”, the friend profile will be created.

Method 2: Fill in more detailed dating information

If you want your friend profile to be concise and clear, you don’t need to fill in more information. However, if you want to add interest to your dating profile, you can continue to fill in the following additional information:

• height
• Religious belief
• profession
• work place
• Whether there are children
• School attended

You can upload up to 9 photos in your dating profile and answer the ice-breaking questions provided by Facebook. You can also share Instagram posts to your friends profile to let others know you better.
The ice-breaking question prepared by Facebook may be similar to “What is the best book you have read?”

Method 3: choose a match

“Friendship” will find suitable people for you based on common interests, preferences and operations you have performed on Facebook. These settings can be changed at any time. You can also choose whether to match people who join the same Facebook group as you, in the same area, or have common interests.
Worried about matching your Facebook friends? By default, “Youyuan” will not recommend current Facebook friends for you. If you don’t resist matching your Facebook friends, you can change this default setting in the settings. When you create a friend profile, the option to match Facebook friends is turned off by default. If you don’t want to match anyone you know, you can even turn off the “Suggest a friend’s friend to you” option.

Method 4: contact the partner

Facebook does not have one-stop mutual matching features like Tinder, Tantan or Bumble, but instead lets you choose to interact with people you are interested in on their dating profile page. Interactive methods include:
Leave a message under their photo.
Reply directly to the ice-breaking question they answered.
Like their friends profile.
Any of the above operations will allow you to start a conversation with interested parties. If someone you are not interested in has liked your friend profile or photo, just click “Not interested” and the other party will not be able to contact you.
This interaction is two-way. If the other party clicks the “Not interested” button, then you can’t send them a message. Only if both parties are interested can you chat in the secure Facebook Messenger “Friendship” inbox.
For security reasons, you can’t send links, photos, or payment methods in the conversation, you can only get to know each other through chat.

Method 5: other unique features

Secret crush

This feature allows you to select 9 objects of interest among your existing Facebook or Instagram friends. Only when the other party puts you on the list of 9 people with “secret crush” will you see that you are interested in them. Both parties must enable Facebook “Friendship” to use this feature.

safety

Meeting with strangers offline is risky. However, the built-in security features of Facebook “Friendship” allow you to inform your trusted family and friends of your plan. You can open Messenger from “Friendship” and inform your family or friends of the offline date, time and location. 15 minutes before your date, they will receive a reminder notification and can access your real-time location, but compared with Apple’s “Find Friends” feature, they can only see your location for a limited period of time.

Bind Instagram account

Facebook “Friendship” allows you to share Instagram posts to your friends profile. This feature allows you to show yourself and also see Instagram photos of potential subjects. You can also add Instagram friends to the “secret crush” list.

No ads and charges

At present, the Facebook “Friendship” feature is completely free, and there are no ads. The only condition is that Facebook will obtain more personal information about you to help you match with more suitable people. These data will be retained by Facebook.