SA article: Sparked / Facebook testing new video speed-dating app

 

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3681354-facebook-testing-new-video-speed-dating-app
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/13/22381511/facebook-video-speed-dating-npe-team-sparked-feature

Two papers debunking speeddating for serious dating
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2011/01/two-papers-debunking-speeddating-for.html

Posing personality: Is it possible to enact the Big Five traits in photographs?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2013/01/posing-personality-is-it-possible-to.html

SA article: "Facebook Dating comes to Europe after long delay"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2020/10/sa-article-facebook-dating-comes-to.html

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.   

SA article: "Facebook Dating comes to Europe after long delay"

 

 

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3624614-facebook-dating-comes-to-europe-after-long-delay

Facebook to launch ‘virtual dating’ over Messenger for Facebook Dating users (TC article)

https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2020/04/facebook-to-launch-virtual-dating-over.html

Facebook Dating coming to the U.S. at end 2019

https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/facebook-dating-coming-to-us-at-end-2019.html

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 (five thousand) online dating sites

• but no one is using the 16PF6 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
• but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
• but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!!! i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.
•  but no one is scientifically proven!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships (and very low divorce rates) than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members. 

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  

Breaking "the online dating sound barrier" is to achieve at least:
3 most compatible persons in a 100,000 persons database.
12 most compatible persons in a 1,000,000 persons database.
48 most compatible persons in a 10,000,000 persons database.
100 times better than Compatibility Matching Algorithms used by actual online dating sites!

The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.
Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry. 

Facebook quietly launches private dating app only for couples ???

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-fb-launches-tuned-app-133001424.html
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/248693/20200408/facebook-tuned-is-the-complete-opposite-of-facebook-dating-and-heres-why.htm

three new features to Facebook Dating
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2020/04/three-new-features-to-facebook-dating.html


 
SA article about Facebook Dating
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2020/03/sa-article-about-facebook-dating.html

The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.

Breaking "the online dating sound barrier" is to achieve at least:
3 most compatible persons in a 100,000 persons database.
12 most compatible persons in a 1,000,000 persons database.
48 most compatible persons in a 10,000,000 persons database.
100 times better than Compatibility Matching Algorithms used by actual online dating sites!

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  
 
Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five normative model or the HEXACO normative model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the normative 16PF6 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
 
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry. 

Facebook Dating Isn’t Feeling the Love in the U.S.

https://www.adweek.com/digital/facebook-dating-isnt-feeling-the-love-in-the-u-s-infographic/
https://www.piplsay.com/facebook-dating-what-is-americas-opinion-of-it/

Facebook Dating: 80 percent of people who used it in test countries came back every week
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/10/facebook-dating-80-percent-of-people.html
article about "Facebook's new dating service is flopping."
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/11/article-about-facebooks-new-dating.html

Could Spotify Become the New Online Matchmaking App?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/11/could-spotify-become-new-online.html

Ablo App by Match Group (for users: 12+ years old)
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/11/ablo-app-by-match-group-for-users-12.html

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".   
Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF6 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
  Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

Facebook Dating now integrates with Instagram and Facebook Stories

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/21/facebook-dating-now-integrates-with-instagram-and-facebook-stories/
https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-dating-will-let-you-share-everyday-moments-with-short-lived-stories/

Facebook has launched its newest venture, a music app called Aux
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/11/facebook-has-launched-its-newest.html

Facebook Dating: 80 percent of people who used it in test countries came back every week
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/10/facebook-dating-80-percent-of-people.html

article about "Facebook's new dating service is flopping."
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/11/article-about-facebooks-new-dating.html

Could Spotify Become the New Online Matchmaking App?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/11/could-spotify-become-new-online.html

Ablo App by Match Group (for users: 12+ years old)
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/11/ablo-app-by-match-group-for-users-12.html

Facebook has launched its newest venture, a music app called Aux

https://dancingastronaut.com/2019/11/facebook-wants-pass-aux-new-music-app/

article about "Facebook's new dating service is flopping."
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/11/article-about-facebooks-new-dating.html

Could Spotify Become the New Online Matchmaking App?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/11/could-spotify-become-new-online.html

article about "Facebook's new dating service is flopping."

https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2019/11/08/facebook-new-dating-service-flopping-tried-for-week-find-out-why/LT6j2wsvMepzTA9Y19CqqJ/story.html
 
Facebook Dating: 80 percent of people who used it in test countries came back every week
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/10/facebook-dating-80-percent-of-people.html


SA article: Match Group: Super Like It
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/11/sa-article-match-group-super-like-it.html

Funds managed by Blackstone (BX) are taking a majority stake in MagicLab
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/11/funds-managed-by-blackstone-bx-are.html

Match Group Stock Is Rising After Analyst Says Facebook Dating Isn’t a Threat ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/10/match-group-stock-is-rising-after.html



The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles. 
The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views". 

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
 
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

Facebook trained AI to fool facial recognition systems

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20932879/facebook-ai-facial-recognition-live-video-de-identification-deepfakes

Facebook researchers say the tool can combat deepfakes.

ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com uses AI to generate endless fake faces
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/thispersondoesnotexistcom-uses-ai-to.html

Facebook could potentially acquire Match Group (via Forbes)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/10/21/is-it-time-for-facebook-to-swipe-right-on-match-group
https://dashboards.trefis.com/no-login-required/BezFe07H/Should-Facebook-Acquire-Match-Group-?fromforbesandarticle=fb191021
https://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2019/10/can-facebook-buy-match-group.html

OPW: The State of the Dating Industry in 2019
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/10/opw-state-of-dating-industry-in-2019.html

CR article: How Private Is Your Online Dating Data?

https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-private-is-your-online-dating-data/

Analysts at ProPrivacy say the dating apps collect everything from chat content to financial data on their users — and then they share it.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/06/analysts-at-proprivacy-say-dating-apps.html

SA article "Facebook Dating Is A Threat To Match, But Not To Tinder"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/sa-article-facebook-dating-is-threat-to.html

SA article "Facebook Dating Is A Threat To Match, But Not To Tinder"

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4292534-facebook-dating-threat-match-tinder

Infographic: What Share Of Online Dating Users Is 'Investing in Love'?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/infographic-what-share-of-online-dating.html

Is Facebook Dating Mining For More User Data Or Making Love Matches?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/is-facebook-dating-mining-for-more-user.html

Facebook May Strike Out in the Dating Game
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-may-strike-out-in-the-dating-game-11568286003

BI article: "all the features that Facebook Dating offers to woo millennials away from rivals like Tinder, Hinge and Bumble"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/bi-article-all-features-that-facebook.html

Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

Is Facebook Dating Mining For More User Data Or Making Love Matches?

https://www.ibtimes.com/facebook-dating-mining-more-user-data-or-making-love-matches-2827681

Facebook Dating: Just another dating app we don’t need?
https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/love-sex/relationships/facebook-dating-just-another-dating-app-we-dont-need-33061067
 
SFC article: Facebook’s dating app isn’t the friendly nudge into love it should be
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/sfc-article-facebooks-dating-app-isnt.html

 

Facebook May Strike Out in the Dating Game
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-may-strike-out-in-the-dating-game-11568286003

BI article: "all the features that Facebook Dating offers to woo millennials away from rivals like Tinder, Hinge and Bumble"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/bi-article-all-features-that-facebook.html

Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

"Facebook's dating app has two features that may enable cheaters"

https://www.insider.com/facebooks-new-dating-app-could-help-cheaters-affair-2019-9

Yahoo article: Facebook Dating Vs. Match.com Vs. Tinder
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/yahoo-article-facebook-dating-vs.html

Yahoo article: Facebook Dating Vs. Match.com Vs. Tinder

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-dating-vs-match-com-185552587.html

Facebook’s secret crush? Maybe it’s Match Group
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/facebooks-secret-crush-maybe-its-match.html

Facebook Debuts Online Dating In the U.S., Challenging Match and Tinder

https://fortune.com/2019/09/05/facebook-online-dating/
https://www.ft.com/content/fd63af00-cb38-11e9-a1f4-3669401ba76f

Facebook Dating coming to the U.S. at end 2019
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/facebook-dating-coming-to-us-at-end-2019.html

Facebook Dating, credit scrutiny and more: 3 interesting patents Facebook snagged this month
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/08/facebook-dating-credit-scrutiny-and.html

"The Military's Big Problem With Facebook Love Scams" via NYtimes

Facebook has become a one-stop shop for digital criminals who impersonate real American servicemen to cheat lonely women out of money.
Our investigation found victims, and perpetrators of the scam.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/magazine/facebook-love-scam-military.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/the-weekly/facebook-scams.html
https://www.nytimes.com/es/2019/07/31/facebook-perfiles-falsos-militares/
https://www.clarin.com/sociedad/enganos-amorosos-redes-sociales-facebook-instagra-unidos-marines_0_9N80rwtbw.html


Snapchat gender swap filter to create fake Tinder profile
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/05/snapchat-gender-swap-filter-to-create.html

Great coverage, big Tinder scam at frequent intervals.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/great-coverage-big-tinder-scam-at.html

Maddie again: MTCH group 2019 still does not check photos.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/maddie-again-mtch-group-2019-still-does.html

PAPER: Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/06/paper-automatically-dismantling-online.html

Facebook Dating is set to release a new feature on the app

designed to differentiate it from other online Cupids such as Tinder and Bumble.
https://www.vogue.in/news/content/facebook-dating-will-allow-you-to-see-if-your-friends-have-a-crush-on-you
Facebook Dating will allow you to see if your friends have a crush on you


Facebook dating Australia soon. (July 2019 Winter in South Hemisphere)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/07/facebook-dating-australia-soon-july.html

Compatibility IS REALLY No. 1 Ingredient To Satisfying Relationship, Study Says
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/07/compatibility-is-really-no-1-ingredient.html
"The researchers studied 2,500 heterosexual couples who have been married for about 20 years and discovered that shared interests weren’t the No. 1 element to a satisfying relationship despite what many people – and dating apps – believe."



“Top 45 Top Scientific Papers For The Online Dating Industry”
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/top-45-scientific-papers-for-online.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/internetdatingscience/2012/02/top-45-top-scientific-papers-for-the-online-dating-industry.html
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/biased-thesis-is-there-consistency-over.html

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  

Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF6 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
 
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
 
WorldWide, there are over 5,000 (five thousand) online dating sites:

- but no one is using the 16PF6 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!

- but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!

- but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!!! i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

- but no one is scientifically proven!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships (and very low divorce rates) than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.
FUNNY: IDEA's Project 0d8 Helps Dating Services Improve
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/07/funny-ideas-project-0d8-helps-dating.html
Improvement is not innovation!

Facebook dating Australia soon. (July 2019 Winter in South Hemisphere)

https://www.elle.com.au/culture/facebook-dating-secret-crush-australia-20791

"While your dating profile is completely separate from your Facebook profile, the feature also utilises the data it's collected from your years of using the platform to better match you up with people based on your interests. "

But please remember: The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views". 


Excellent SA article: Facebook: Don't Fall For Cryptocurrency Hype
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/06/excellent-sa-article-facebook-dont-fall.html

Facebook Dating coming to the U.S. at end 2019
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/facebook-dating-coming-to-us-at-end-2019.html

Facebook Dating (one week) Review. (The Philippines)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/05/facebook-dating-one-week-review.html

Facebook to take on Tinder, not to revolutionize online dating
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/05/facebook-to-take-on-tinder-not-to.html

"Facebook Secret Crush is going to be huge because it's got history on its side."
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/05/facebook-secret-crush-is-going-to-be.html

FUNNY: IDEA's Project 0d8 Helps Dating Services Improve
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/07/funny-ideas-project-0d8-helps-dating.html
Improvement is not innovation!

BBC article about "Should we dislike the 'Like' button?"

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48364817

La caja de Pandora que destapó el cándido botón “me gusta” de Facebook
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-48694585

INTERNET TRENDS 2019 - 2020 AS USUAL Next Big Thing: PERSONALIZATION!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/06/internet-trends-2019-2020-as-usual-next.html

PAPER about "How the online world is affecting the human brain"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/06/paper-about-how-online-world-is.html

NEW PAPER: Detecting Persuasive Arguments based on Author-Reader Personality Traits and their Interaction.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/06/new-paper-detecting-persuasive.html

The Online Dating Industry Loves Artificial Intelligence
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-online-dating-industry-loves.html

AGAIN the obsolete Big Five normative test.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/again-obsolete-big-five-normative-test.html

Finally the perfect dating algorithm? Of course NOT, Big Five test is OBSOLETE.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/finally-perfect-dating-algorithm-of.html

Chief Scientist At eHarmony Cavorts With The ... Facebook
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/about-chief-scientist-at-eharmony.html

FYI: Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/05/paper-beyond-personalization-research.html
 
That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/paper-comparative-study-of-people-to_14.html  

They need to calculate personality similarity between users but there are different formulas to calculate similarity.

In case you did not understand: Recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry for years, with low success rates until now because they mostly use the Big Five model to assess personality and the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate similarity.
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old. 

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  

Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena? 
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF6 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns.
 
Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF6 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

Breaking "the online dating sound barrier" is to achieve at least:
3 most compatible persons in a 100,000 persons database.
12 most compatible persons in a 1,000,000 persons database.
48 most compatible persons in a 10,000,000 persons database.
100 times better than Compatibility Matching Algorithms used by actual online dating sites!
High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.

Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry. 

Excellent SA article: Facebook: Don't Fall For Cryptocurrency Hype

Summary

• Facebook with a consortium launches a digital coin called Libra.
• The social platform plans to launch a digital platform called Calibra.
• The past history of transactions and payments on the Facebook platform aren't supportive of the digital coin working to drive meaningful transactions.
• Don't buy the stock into the hype.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4270916-facebook-fall-cryptocurrency-hype


Facebook’s ‘GlobalCoin’ cryptocurrency to launch in 2020, report claims
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/05/facebooks-globalcoin-cryptocurrency-to.html
PAPER: Bitcoin: Is Cryptocurrency Viable? / (Ponzi Scheme ?)
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2014/05/paper-bitcoin-is-cryptocurrency-viable.html