> * Facebook has huge potential to make dating safer by knowing when you're together detecting suspicious activity. Integrating their crisis response system would be a game changer.
I didn't realize online dating is so unsafe that this would be a "game changer." Online dating is already safer than (for example) meeting some random person at a bar or party, assuming you first meet the person in public which is an obvious thing to do. Presumably you've exchanged phone numbers or have some kind of identity of the person you're going out with, should you go missing, people know who to look for. I suppose the contact info they're giving you could be faked, and they could be using Tor the entire time, but I'd say someone nefarious like that is far more likely to be picking up drunk people at bars who aren't even paying attention and not even thinking in that direction.
> Online dating is already safer than (for example) meeting some random person at a bar or party, assuming you first meet the person in public which is an obvious thing to do.
This is not necessarily true. I've been harassed by people who I've talked to online who have never even progressed to the meeting stage (we talk a little bit, I determine I'm not interested, a meeting never happens). They'll create fake accounts, message from their friends' accounts, etc. because some people don't know how to take no for an answer. People are a lot more willing to harass behind anonymity than to stalk people in person, because the bar and the resulting consequences are so much lower. Plus it's a lot easier to screen people in person than it is to assess potentially fake profiles.
That being said, I don't think that Facebook dating is the answer to this.
I didn't realize online dating is so unsafe that this would be a "game changer." Online dating is already safer than (for example) meeting some random person at a bar or party, assuming you first meet the person in public which is an obvious thing to do. Presumably you've exchanged phone numbers or have some kind of identity of the person you're going out with, should you go missing, people know who to look for. I suppose the contact info they're giving you could be faked, and they could be using Tor the entire time, but I'd say someone nefarious like that is far more likely to be picking up drunk people at bars who aren't even paying attention and not even thinking in that direction.