- Goal is adding an assistant of dates to ia to the Facebook appointments
- The wizard will help improve profiles, close searches and custom matches
- Another new feature called Meet Cute will deliver a surprise match per week
Facebook appointments are not the romantic giant that Tinder or Bumble has been, but Meta believes that its digital cupid can find you loving with a pinch of AI and a turn of the roulette wheel. Facebook appointments now include a feature “knowing beautiful” that automatically combines it with a surprise match every week and, in case the random opportunity does not work, there is a new appointment assistant with AI to help you.
Meta believes that the current sliding system leaves many romance seekers who feel exhausted. The company wants to position Facebook appointments such as the antidote, something for those who are single and are staring at their phone, wondering if the appointment applications are supposed to be fun.
Romance assistant
The AI dating assistant tries to be a virtual wing for both his own profile and to find a coincidence. Instead of moving to thumb cramps, you can write exactly what you are looking for. AI can go beyond standard height, education or hometown filters.
The indications could be as specific as “someone who lives near me and likes to do water activities”, or “a girl in Brooklyn who likes baseball, and is not allergic to pets.” The assistant analyzes those indications and brings suggestions back to their preferences.
The assistant works as a coach for his own profile, offering advice to rewrite his biography and suggest ideas for the first messages or date places. For people who fear writing bios, this could be a lifeguard. For anyone who felt stuck looking at a flashing cursor in the “About me” section, it is difficult to deny the appeal of having a little digital help.
Know nice pairing
Know cute, on the other hand, make the decision making of your hands once a week. Each user gets a surprise match chosen by the finishing algorithm, with the chatting or passing option. Theoretically, this reintroduces part of the chance of knowing someone randomly in real life, that dating applications have greatly replaced. That probably depends on how well the random coincidence is going. On the other hand, if it takes it well with one or more ‘random’ games, you may wonder if they are so random or if you are so bland that basically someone could be a good combination for you.
Together, the two characteristics represent a change in how goal wants Facebook appointments to stand out. Hundreds of thousands of people in North America still create profiles every month, and coincidences among young people aged 18 to 29 increase 10% year after year, according to goal. But the application has been left behind competitors such as Tinder and Bishing, who are already experiencing with their own characteristics of AI. The goal bet is that combining a proactive assistant with algorithmic surprise will help the appointments feel more efficient and perhaps even more fun.
If it works, it depends on how well the Wisdom AI and the random sparks of love balances, and if the single people can trust AI to handle the affairs of the heart.
