How private is the free facebook dating feature from your main friends list?

Started by Taylor_V Free Dating & Apps 6 posts Last reply
dating adult sites online hookups community advice
Taylor_V
Joined: Mar 2024
Messages: 359
#1

Putting private is the free facebook dating feature from your main friends list to the board because search results on it are almost entirely marketing. The bit nobody covers on free facebook dating is the point where it starts charging.

I have tried a few options across platforms in this space already and none of them stuck. You can work around the pay-to-see-likes trick on free facebook dating, but you have to be deliberate about it.

If you have used free facebook dating, these are the bits I care about:

  • Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the free facebook dating pool near you is thin
  • Message within a day of matching — on free facebook dating that window closes fast
  • Turn off read receipts on free facebook dating if the trial that quietly renews is making you anxious about response times
  • Treat your first free facebook dating profile as a draft, because the point where it starts charging punishes lazy ones

If you have tried private is the free facebook dating feature from your main friends list recently, I would rather hear that than read another review site.

RobbieQ
Joined: Jan 2022
Messages: 86
#2

Not my read at all: for the members answering here, free facebook dating was the only thing that produced anything. For regulars here, the free facebook dating experience lives or dies on a free tier that is not free and almost nothing else.

What changed my results on free facebook dating was treating the pay-to-see-likes trick as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. What changed my results on free facebook dating was treating the point where it starts charging as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Not saying free facebook dating suits everyone, but it is not the disaster this thread implies.

Somebody in another free facebook dating thread pointed me at Souldate and it held up better than expected on the point where it starts charging.

Ben1989
Joined: Mar 2022
Messages: 965
#3

Yes, and I would add that the upgrade nag on free facebook dating gets worse the longer you stay.

Nobody warns you that the upgrade nag on free facebook dating scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Join FlameDate Free

Join free facebook dating members who are already messaging for nothing.

XanderM
Joined: May 2023
Messages: 1041
#4

That has not been my experience of free facebook dating, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread. For most people in this thread, the free facebook dating experience lives or dies on a free tier that is not free and almost nothing else.

What changed my results on free facebook dating was treating surprise billing as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Honestly, locked messaging was less of a problem on free facebook dating than the sheer time it ate.

Practical bits, if you are trying free facebook dating:

  • Photos with other people in them do worse on free facebook dating than you would guess
  • Test the trial that quietly renews on free facebook dating deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
  • Do not pay to fix a free tier that is not free on free facebook dating; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause
  • Log in at the hours you would actually go out; free facebook dating activity is nothing like flat
Garrett_K
Joined: Jul 2023
Messages: 435
#5

I would argue the opposite on free facebook dating: the paywall is the one thing it handles better than platforms in this space.

The pattern I see with free facebook dating is that the upgrade nag is fine early and degrades as you go. I keep two accounts running to compare a free tier that's not free across the sites people keep naming, and free facebook dating sits mid-table.

Others asking about free facebook dating have named flurrydate.online, turndate.site.

Patrick Reyes
Joined: Aug 2024
Messages: 503
#6

Building on what Garrett_K said about free facebook dating, different experience on free facebook dating, where locked messaging turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. You can work around the point where it starts charging on free facebook dating, but you have to be deliberate about it.

The pattern I see with free facebook dating is that the pay-to-see-likes trick is fine early and degrades as you go. Your free facebook dating results will vary by city more than by platform.

One smaller option worth comparing on a free tier that is not free is Datescout — different pool, same free messaging as free facebook dating.

More from Free Dating & Apps

Start Your Free Profile

No credit card is required at any point for free facebook dating members.