Looking for hot singles in your area? Don’t plan on using Facebook’s advanced search tool to find them. Now you’re going to have to use the various dating applications on Facebook if you are the type of person who likes to use the computer to find new dating opportunities. While I wouldn’t describe Facebook as a dating platform, there’s no doubt that many users were using the site to connect with new people. MySpace was once a hotbed of activity for finding potential hookups. Facebook apparently doesn’t want to go that route.
With a number of popular dating applications on Facebook like Are You Interested? and Zoosk, there are plenty of alternative ways for finding singles on the site, just not through advanced search. Facebook has emphasized that they will continue to focus on connecting those users that are connected offline. One thing to note is that Facebook’s advanced search has been hidden away for some time now but it is still accessible. Facebook has also switched the name from “Advanced Search” to “Profile Search”.
If you’re looking to pick up random singles on the internet, Facebook is not going to provide you with the tools to do so. This should most definitely help Facebook avoid criminal cases like online pedophiles which have plagued sites like MySpace for some time now. I can’t say that I personally know of many people that have met others through Facebook. Instead, I know of numerous people that use Facebook as a way to connect with those individuals who they only briefly interacted with in person.
Do you know people that used to find dates through Facebook? Are you particularly concerned that Facebook has removed this search functionality?
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I guess I don't care much one way or the other because I've never used Facebook to search strangers, but it does seem in line with Facebook's new philosophy of removing more and more features.
Comment by Danforth France — August 5, 2009 @ 8:42 am
I'm glad they changed this, I've had my fair share of weirdos/people thinking facebook is a dating site trying to contact me!
Comment by Lawlbook — August 5, 2009 @ 12:59 pm
Don't care for this one but I do miss how this search used to be. You used to click on everything (e.g. Birthdays) on a persons profile and find others. Ah well, fb has been meh to me this summer. Communication with friends and family is what I use it for and luckily that's still in tact.
Comment by mojaam — August 5, 2009 @ 4:04 pm
*Cue Darth Vader Voice*
Noooooooooooooooooooo
Comment by Jason Kincaid — August 5, 2009 @ 7:09 pm
I have a friend who met his girlfried through facebook, but he didn't use advanced search, he just went and added few nice looking girls from our area
Comment by Anze — August 5, 2009 @ 11:38 pm
I guess this is a good thing but I haven’t really gone looking for singles on FB. I figure if we meet through a connection or another network it is just the same.
Comment by Facebook User — August 6, 2009 @ 3:44 am
It wasn't on my mind, but had I wanted to do it, I'd have preferred using Facebook instead of a third party. I do not use third party applications to this day, after being two years on the network.
I'm rather open to new contacts, sometimes more than contacts I already know but don't care too much to add on my list.
Thanks for giving the link to the advanced search, I need to bookmark it just to make sure it stays within reach. I usually type a name and/or keyword, such as location, or company. I was mostly satisfied with the results I got.
Comment by TSP — August 6, 2009 @ 7:42 am
I was frustrated by this change because I use the relationship status feature to keep up to date on who is getting engaged/married from my high school/college friends…
Comment by Laura — August 25, 2009 @ 8:43 am
proberly angauged and within terms and conditions
Comment by migosi erick — September 4, 2009 @ 12:11 am
This sucks…………
never mind the dating possibilties of facebook… but
how are you supposed to find friends in general ?
I cannot guess where they live now what county they are in
Secondly not all people add their schools or even towns they are in or where they lived.
up to and until they removed the good old search facility i was able to connect with at least three old friends a week… now ? i have not been able to find friends at all…
it sucks… it is not about dating …it is about finding friends….
would love to know what facebook's friend connecting ratio is since they have removed the old search
Comment by cavemanharris — September 14, 2009 @ 1:58 am
i want to know about ROYA.NIYAKAN my old friend if any one knows her help me plz.
Comment by toktam — October 6, 2009 @ 3:51 am
It does suck i am interested in hooking up on facebook with single chics its the new site for swingers i cant believe they took it out
Comment by bill — November 22, 2009 @ 12:01 pm
I made heavy use of Profile Search to fish for dates – with great success. I'll miss those days…
Comment by Jean-Marc — December 6, 2009 @ 1:21 pm
Dang. I wanted to see how many of my friends have gotten engaged!
Comment by Stephanie — May 20, 2010 @ 10:44 am
To search singles on facebook you can use facebook app called “fLove” or facebooklove.com
it’s nice and free so…
Comment by mark — July 29, 2010 @ 11:49 am
Facebook is just for married people and couples, anyway. Couples need only apply. Just a place for women to "one-up" one another and talk about their marriages and children and engagements and how supposedly wonderful their boyfriends are. Not any single women in sight on Facebook, so there's no use in even looking, with or without the relationship feature.
Comment by Ryan Traynor — August 5, 2010 @ 6:44 pm