Take a good look at this picture:
Is this what you see?
If online dating is the new singles bar, then Facebook is open bar 24/7, what with over 400 million ACTIVE users. From the soft-light profile photos to the catchy status updates (not to mention the ubiquitous "Like" thumbs up icon), Facebook has the particular charm that online dating sites SHOULD have but, unfortunately, don't. And what's that? It leaves you enough room to maneuver and tell people that you're in the market without having to BE IN THE MARKET. So what, Facebook is not a dating site, right? At least, not officially. Even if you're actually looking, you no longer have to hunch over the monitor the way a football carrier would. With Facebook, you also get more opportunities to do an in-depth survey before the buy-in. Best of all, it's free. But then, again, Facebook can't solve all of life's problems (what?!)--meaning, it's not cheat-proof and perv-proof, as there's no way that Facebook can verify each of the profiles. At least, for now.
So, if you've been on Facebook long enough to have gone through that phase, when you suddenly feel the urge to type your exes' names into the search field--assuming that they're using their real names--or to "Like" every one of your Facebook crush's posts (and spend an entire hour waiting for the red notification flag to pop up), don't beat yourself up. Blame it on the subliminal message on Facebook's log-in page instead.
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