Entertainment behemoth and cultural institution Gawker today released a handy (and somewhat hilarious) guide to finding love on Facebook. As author Adrian Chen points out, if you’re looking for your next partner online it makes more sense to use the social network than any other match-making site: “A dating service is a douchey single’s bar; the pressure to appeal to the opposite sex means dating site members usually craft their profiles to resemble stock characters in a crappy rom-com. But Facebook is the laid-back house party. All your friends are there. It’s casual. The music’s better,” he says.
Chen reckons recent developments in Facebook’s platform have allowed more access to the honeys and hunks we all want to end up with. He’s outlined a few which he thinks will definitely help, including some cool things we didn’t know about like the Friends Browser, which allows any user to create a visual grid of hot friends’ hot friends. Which is totally not stalking, by the by. Some of the others are obvious (Events, Dating Apps) but we particularly love his last-minute inclusion of Messaging Random People:
Facebook has over 600 million users. Why limit your dating pool to only those that you have a connection with? Get drunk and try searching for random first names. Go alphabetically: “Abigail, Adrienne, Adele.” Send a flirty message to every “Anna” and see what happens. What will probably happen is your Facebook account will get banned. But who knows?
Be right back. Just going through all my Megans.
via Gawker.
