Questionable Apps on Facebook
It begins with an invitation from your friend to see who your so-called Perfect Matches are on Facebook. The invite starts off by claiming that they’ve matched you with your perfect matches, at which point if you’re curious enough you’d click to install the app. After you have done so you are basically wrestled to choose 9 people to spam an invitation to proliferate the same madness, and upon completion of those invites the page reloads and shows you a list of your apparent “perfect matches” using a percentage scoring system.
The person that the app scored at first place was a magnificent 96% match with me.
This said person is however:-
a) engaged to be married,
b) physically the furthest thing away from my type,
c) character and personality clashes with mine I doubt we can have a conversation for more than 5-minutes without running in the other direction,
d) has no immediate interests in common with me, and
d) possibly the worse person the app could have matched me up with!
The second guy on the list is no less impressive. Ranking at an impressive 94% would mean that there can be absolutely no mix up with the fact that he was going to be the love of my life. Except that I thought he was gay the first time I met him, and when I was made aware that he was in fact “not gay” I still found his personality too effeminate for my tastes.
That’s just one side of the story, and you haven’t heard the other person’s side yet. I am sure if I feel that way about them, they must not be too excited about hooking up with me either. There are companies out there that are going about their businesses in such a distasteful manner that it threatens Facebook as an enjoyable platform.
Perfect Match has questionable credibility and their effort is no where near as sophisticated as a dedicated match-matching website like Match.com. Thus the limited function of the app would unlikely be able to calculate the probability of your compatibility with another Facebook user. Don’t be fooled…. while there are a lot of apps on Facebook that have entertainment value but this app is for lack of a better word a dud! It was designed to inspire click-throughs so that you can be lead to a page that serves you blinding ads on a paid services along the lines of astrology, numerology, tarot card reading, relationship feng shui, and all that kind of mystical hocus-pocus that claim to reveal the love of your life if you don’t mind parting with some money.
Guys, we all love Facebook but let’s get real for a moment. Grebooca’s Perfect Match just smells funky and it fails as a match-making application so far. This is bullshit scamming in broad daylight and endorsement of such activity just drags the platform’s standard down. Facebook should consider the state or intentions of the app prior to approving them, or they’re going to piss a lot of users off.
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JACKIE MIAO
Digital Consultant
PRINCE2 Project Manager
Location: London, U.K.-
