Facebook Develops A New Feature To Help You To Make New Friends

Facebook wants to show you more of what you have got in usual with potential new friends and ensure you don’t forget about about your old ones either.
The company is rolling out a new  feature that allows you to get a closer look at your friend’s friends. It’s not only showcasing connections you are yet  to make however lots of current friends as well, which appears a bit strange, however i think it helps you orient your self with friends you haven’t interacted with in a bit .
Once you tap on a button urging you to “get to know[name’s] pals” you’re cast right into a carousel of the connections. Formerly, the most distinguished way Facebook orients you with potential new buddies was by means of displaying you your mutual friends. This option digs deeper, displaying you events&activities that you both attended, pages you each like, places you’ve both worked or lived.

In February, Facebook began rolling out “Discover people,” a feature designed that will help you discover new connections largely thru corporations and occasions. The friend cards are the same  here, however this roll out throws them right into a extra extensive features release.

Facebook is also looking to get you closer to some of the pals you have already got in the app. Motherboard reports that a new feature is bringing some tinder-like functionality to messenger, allowing users to connect in the event that they both imply that they’re interested in hanging out. It’s also a little harking back to a some of snapchat’s efforts to get you to engage with friends you haven’t traded messages with in a while. Having this ability inside Messenger is, again, a bit of an odd choice given which you must switch to the main app to view someone’s profiles.

There doesn’t seem to be any clear “dating app” language present instead it’s more centered on friendly encounters, i.e “would you want to meet up with [name] this week?” the adjustments that would need to be taken to convert this option right into a Tinder or Bumble-like applet don’t take any major intellectual leaps though and dating might be a huge move for the company in the future .

Ultimately, Facebook is better with friends and  even if the connection suggestions that Facebook comes up with are already stellar, it’s good to see some numbers of the thinking that’s being performed backstage in terms of common interest.