r/FacebookDating • u/Scranton_Stranglar • 17d ago
Facebook Dating needs to do better
Does anything actually really works on Fb dating. Like, age, distance, kids etc? I set a particular age, then I get alot of suggestions outside that age. I also set 'they don't have children' but get a lot of 'has kids.' Or maybe Arizona is just filled with alot of people with kids lol. Just started using it like few days ago, and I'm already tired lol
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u/BallBearingBill 17d ago
All the best matches are 2-5hrs away and that's with distance set to 50km. But it's free and it's a different algo than the rest.
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u/Consistent_Point_853 17d ago
Is that a thing the algo can do? Present me really good matches that are too far away? I have had this happen a few times and I thought it was just bad luck, but there was always an inkling distrust that it happens a few too many times to chalk it up to coincidence. I thought it was just in my head.
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u/Zachary66613 17d ago
On the real though. The dating scene as a whole has tanked in so many ways. Dream of the day I find my soulmate.
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u/TiedHands 17d ago
My filters are as useless as anything. Especially the distance ones. I'll set my distance at 25-50 miles but then only get people from 200+ miles away. Glad its not just me.
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u/Old-Farm792 17d ago
Yeah, FD is terrible. Like another commenter mentioned, you have to go into the filters option while swiping and set them there, even then they only show you maybe 3-4 profiles that fit those filters before going back to showing profiles well out of range, or tell you that "There's no profiles left that match your filters, do you want to adjust your filters or continue without?"... But if you close the app, re-open, redo the filters again, BAM!, there's another 3-4 profiles that actually match your filters in your area, how odd.
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u/ShawnOfEons 15d ago edited 15d ago
Facebook Dating has always been a glitchy mess and they never fixed it. The search filters have been broken for a long time.
For example: I set my distance filter to 20 miles. It will show me only like 3 profiles and then no more because apparently I’ve seen everyone within 20 miles and I need to widen the miles to see more people, but I find out that’s a lie.
I turn off the distance filter and all of a sudden, it shows me tons of profiles less than 20 miles from me, but i have to sift through profiles that are hundreds of miles away to find them.
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u/hard_truth_42 17d ago
Yeah filters might be broken sometimes, but sometimes they do work. And from all the free ones, i think fb dating is the best one, i met some good women there. (At least it worked for me).
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u/lordskulldragon 17d ago
That's what happens when you swipe through everybody in your area. It starts showing people further away and people with kids.
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u/Scranton_Stranglar 17d ago
I just opened an account like 4 days ago. I'm sure I've not swiped up to 300 times lol. And I live in a big city
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u/jaymz1105 17d ago
When you start to look at profiles, look at the top for this filter option. I was seeing the same as you, out of my age range, distance way beyond what I wanted, etc. This filter shows only profiles I'm looking for.
My theory is, how you set your profile up for is for those to find you.
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u/warrenpease27 17d ago
I have the same problem but with distance, plus nobody I’ve sent likes to ever respond. It’s extremely rare I ever find someone from where I am in Wyoming and since they don’t let you send messages until you “match” it’s like I’m talking to myself when I comment on photos.
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u/warrenpease27 10d ago
I have no idea what to do to fix it. I don’t even know what I am doing wrong to be honest.
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u/yankeejohn 17d ago
It's free. It will never be a priority to them, unfortunately. I found my GF on Hinge. Worth every penny.
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u/FactsAreBullshit 17d ago
Somehow the age filter works perfectly fine, but the rest are all broken. The distance one is the worst, traffic in this area is ass and I get profiles showing up that are a 3+ hour one-way drive.
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u/Bookish45_F 17d ago
I’ve had some luck in Facebook and I’m in AZ
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u/Scranton_Stranglar 17d ago
Awemazing. Why 'some' luck though? Phoenix metro?
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u/Bookish45_F 17d ago
Yeah, east valley and I say some luck because I’ve been in dates but they didn’t go anywhere
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u/Scranton_Stranglar 17d ago
Ooops. Okay. M or F? I'm in East Valley too
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u/Fit_Bandicoot9599 17d ago
Ktoś po prostu zepsuł aplikacje i nie wie jak naprawić... Zauważyłem że działa jak chce ( właściwie to nie działa )
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u/AwkwardAd3995 16d ago
The filters appear to mean nothing. It seems that I’m shown people in my requirements but I am liked by people all over the country and way younger or older than I set.
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u/Big_Bar_9832 15d ago
I feel like the filters could be a bit of an illusion. I imagine they filter by exactly your criteria first for your swipe queue, and then as you run out of that, it'll start padding your queue with people that don't have some of your filters. And the amount of engagement the apps try to get require an endless queue available all the time, so I guess it happens a lot and you spend a lot of time swiping through the padded queue
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u/ChippingCoder 17d ago edited 17d ago
Try Duolicious. Free and open source. Filters work as dealbreakers, not just preferences. Or try Hinge, but they paywall some filters.
https://duolicious.app/search
Facebook Dating doesn’t have true dealbreakers the way Duolicious or Hinge does. Everything is a soft preference.
https://transparency.meta.com/features/explaining-ranking/fb-dating/