Despite Valentine's Day inching closer and users asking for it, Facebook dating app is nowhere found in India

Once again, Valentine's day is around corner and for those who don't have a date this Valentine's day seems to have a pertinent question at hand. A question that's being asked by so many users, especially youngsters, who apparently have been flocking to Snapchat and Instagram, when does Facebook's dating app become available? Even amidst scandals and turmoil hitting Facebook from all corners for almost a year, social media giant is building a dating app. But it's t here yet.
 
Facebook initially anunced plans to foray into online dating place at company's F8 developer conference last year. Since n, we have heard so little about its progress. In August, social media giant started testing its dating app internally with employees who have opted-in to dogfooding it.

In vember, Facebook enabled early access to ir dating product for select users in Cana, and one user who has tried Facebook dating even went as far as to describe her experience as "exhausting." Facebook has confirmed to Verge y are testing it within Facebook's main app. w, we kw why is that case.

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Recently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed ir plan to merge WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, and since y are alrey merging se apps toger, it's kind of obvious why Facebook isn't so keen on building a standalone dating app at this point. But it remains to be seen how it competes with some of its well-established competitors like Tinder.

Facebook is also working on a meme app to woo youngsters but we don't kw yet wher y want to integrate it too within main app or come up with a whole new, stand-alone app altoger.

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Right w, we have information on when Facebook dating will be available to all users in India, which has led daily users growth for Facebook in December quarter. It's pretty obvious that India is one of key markets for Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg can't afford to miss out on an opportunity to increase that growth rate even furr by introducing Facebook dating app in India.