Meta is Shutting Down Tuned, Its Social App for Couples (techcrunch.com) 23
Tuned, Meta's social app for couples, is winding down a little over two years after it launched. TechCrunch: Users, including this reporter, began receiving a notification about the impending shutdown last week, advising them to download their data before September 19 when the app will cease to work. Tuned was a project under Meta's New Product Experimentation (NPE) Team, which was originally formed to build consumer-facing apps that would allow Meta to test out new features and gauge people's reactions. Launched in the early months of the pandemic, Tuned was positioned as a way for couples to stay in touch and engaged, with messaging features and quizzes designed to let them share how they're feeling, what they're up to and milestones they're anticipating. Tuned allowed users to exchange notes, photos and videos, challenges, voice messages, notes and lists, and music via a Spotify integration. They could set their respective moods, and -- for more intimate content -- choose a password or a blur filter. A "check-in" feature nudged couples to suss out their feelings about the relationship in any given moment, with prompts to add context.
Learn that brevity is the key to success (Score:5, Funny)
"Meta is shutting down" is all we really wanted to hear.
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Had my hopes up for a brief moment there. Almost the best day of the 21st century.
Re: Learn that brevity is the key to success (Score:1)
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Literally came here to say this. I keep getting really excited everytime I read this. Like, "Oooh!" *pause* "Awwwww."
Not that there's anything wrong with that (Score:5, Insightful)
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When project managers fall in love, there's a lot of planning and meetings and milestones involved.
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All your base are belong to us!
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(sorry, it was mandatory)
Re: Not that there's anything wrong with that (Score:2)
No it sounds more like Facebook wants even more intimate details about their existing product that isn't already given to them via their regular platform.
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You know, in this particular case they may have had a goldmine idea, but they were too stupid to be up-front about what it actually was.
Imagine selling to older married couples a platform that could, just through regular conversation snippets, determine PRECISELY what form of "marital aids" a couple need to enhance the "free and open exchange of ideas" (sex) and expand the relationship's base. If they advertised up front that their goal was to help find them better targeted services / toys / movies / etc. t
The Gottmans already have that covered :-) (Score:2)
https://www.gottman.com/produc... [gottman.com]
I don't want to actually talk to you (Score:3)
I just want my phone to let me know my relationship status.
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Well.... it's complicated.
Did I misunderstand this? (Score:3)
Never heard of it, but this app is described as "a way for couples to stay in touch and engaged, with messaging features and quizzes designed to let them share how they're feeling, what they're up to and milestones they're anticipating".
What
the
fuck?????????????
If you and your sweetie-pie need some kind of a fucking app to "stay in touch", share how you're "feeling" and what you're "up to", then your relationship is doomed. I'm pretty sure there's a way to do all of that without some app.
Re: Did I misunderstand this? (Score:4, Informative)
This doesn't sound like a fucking app to me. Generally I think of e.g. tinder-alikes as fucking apps.
This sounds more like it's intended to get inside your head more than they can already accomplish with regular Facebook. So I'd call this more of a "brain fucking app."
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Nah. It's a "brain sucking app".
Regardless, 100% agreed and wish I had mod points for you!
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Three-way? (Score:3)
If I want a three-way in my relationship, it's not going to be with Facebook.
I barely trust Facebook enough to buy used tires in their Marketplace. I'm not going to whisper sweet nothings to my SO over Facebook so they can sell it to Cambridge-Analytica.
Maaaaybe if a Signal plugin had such a thing with open-source e2e somebody /might/ trust it for their long-distance relationship. Even then it would have to prove its utility.
Love triangle with facebook ? (Score:2)
Why? (Score:2)
I can do that with email.