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Thanks to the unique way it functions, Bumble is sinking its roots deeper on Tinder. It attracts lots of female users by allowing them converse first. In fact, this brings more male users and pushes them all to up their game. This sits well with me, as someone who has always been about quality against quantity.
Bumble uses Facebook, like Tinder, to create your profile. Like Tinder, it takes, and not give, so you won’t inform your Facebook friends that you’re on Bumble or add something to Facebook while using the app.
Does Bumble filter out friends from Facebook?
The only disadvantage to using Facebook for this application is the possibility of having friends, colleagues or co-workers on the app.
Or when they get to see you. The initial questions asked was if Bumble filters
friends from Facebook and we really don’t know the answer.
To try to find out, I tried some experiments with a group of friends.
I had 13 friends in common with a buddy with whom I was conducting this experiment.
It showed just 7 in our profiles. I had 42 mutual friends with another friend, mostly from
college, but only 27 of those turned up at Bumble. Though this is a very small experiment, it does mean that there is some sort of filtering. Either that or there is a glitch in how Facebook friend data is extrapolated by Bumble.
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Your name, username, email address, phone number, gender, date of birth, sexual
orientation, photos, location and login information will be collected, says Bumble.
It can also access lists of your friends and information from other social
media sites such as Instagram and any other Facebook links you connect to.
It notes that it will only share what it needs publicly, but
doesn’t say anything about filtering, exclusions or anything about how Bumble works.
Without Facebook Bumble
If you’re scared of ‘bumping into’ mutual friends or acquaintances on Bumble, there is good news. Bumble has been adding a way to build a profile without using Facebook since April 2018.
With your phone number alone, you will be able to log in and build an account and not have to connect the two accounts.
This is in reaction to individuals moving away from Facebook and becoming more concerned with the details they place on the social network. Latest data-sharing controversies have prompted thousands of users to shut down their accounts as Facebook interferes with everyday life. Bumble doesn’t want this to affect membership, but without Facebook, they’ve added a way to use the dating app.
Jessica Collins, product marketing manager at Bumble, said in a statement on 16 April 2018, “Many of our users and prospective users have asked for a way to register for Bumble without connecting their Facebook account, and we are excited to roll out this function to our users beginning today.”
“We are delighted to continue to scale to new communities globally
while maintaining the experience of Bumble that our users know and love.”
For any Bumble user who wants to keep the two sides of their lives fully apart, this is a very welcome news.
Bumble has used Facebook to streamline the process of registration and identity verification. Choosing the ‘Sign in with Facebook’ option and making the app do the rest was always simpler. We knew nothing of how dangerous it would be.
We now know that we can never use Facebook to login anything that uses personal data, thanks to Cambridge Analytical.
Do it by yourself
It makes complete sense to do exactly that, now that you can sign up for Bumble using your phone number.
Existing users will like to restore their Bumble profile instead of Facebook, as new users would also want to use the phone alternative. It does not only mean that you will have to plan and upload your own profile and
photos, but it also ensures that you have total control of who sees what and when.
The one thing that Bumble hasn’t said yet is how the accounts will be checked.
The fact that there are fewer scammers on it than other dating apps is one of the best things about Bumble.
The use of Facebook to check accounts was at least a helpful way to verify that someone was legitimate. Without that aspect, how is Bumble going to verify their users’ legitimacy?
I can’t find an answer to that right now, so when meeting individuals using the app, I recommend being extra careful.