Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook is launching a dating app

NEWS DIGEST – Facebook has announced plan to launch a dating service to help connect users with potential new users they can date.

Social media giant, Mark Zuckerberg revealed this at Facebook’s F8 Conference in San Jose, California.

“If we are focused on helping people build meaningful relationships then perhaps this is the most meaningful of all… so we are launching a whole set of new features around dating,” He said.

Zuckerberg emphasized that the feature will be aimed at “building real, long-term relationships, not just hookups.”

He said “there are 200 million people on Facebook that list themselves as single… clearly, there’s something to do here.”

The dating app will not allow friends will to see one another’s dating profiles, as part of its privacy policy.

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