Facebook Launches 'Tuned' Messaging App for Couples

[MacRumors]

Facebook has quietly released Tuned, a new messaging app designed to provide a "private space" for couples to connect, reports The Information.

Designed by NPE, an experimental group within the company that was established last year, the app encourages couples to share messages, notes, cards, voice memos, photos and Spotify songs with each other, thereby creating a "digital scrapbook" of their relationship. As described on the App Store:

A private space where you and your significant other can just be yourselves. With Tuned, you can be as mushy, quirky, and silly as you are together in person, even when you're apart. Creatively express your love, share your mood, exchange music, and build a digital scrapbook of your special moments.

The free-to-use app connects couples using their phone number and doesn't require a Facebook account, although it does conform to Facebook's data policy, which means the information provided in the app could be used for ad targeting.

According to Facebook, the Tuned app was released under a separate brand "to help set the appropriate expectations with users that NPE Team apps will change very rapidly and may be shut down if we learn that they're not useful to people."

Tuned for iPhone is available to download today from the App Store. [Direct Link]

Article Link: Facebook Launches 'Tuned' Messaging App for Couples

 

[jsmith189]

cat lady, activate.

 

[CC117]

Not in UK

 

[iZac]

Swear to god I just read:

"Facebook Launches Turd..."

Maybe I need my eyes tested.

 

[BrettArchibald]

What the heck is this? Why? I literally cringed reading the description of it!

 

[iapplelove]

Facebook and private ?

 

[motm95]

As described on the App Store:

A private space where you and your significant other can just be yourselves. With Tuned, you can be as mushy, quirky, and silly as you are together in person, even when you're apart. Creatively express your love, share your mood, exchange music, and build a digital scrapbook of your special moments.

The free-to-use app connects couples using their phone number and doesn't require a Facebook account, although it does conform to Facebook's data policy, which means the information provided in the app could be used for ad targeting.

So a private space that isn't private. Got it.

 

[xxray]

There’s no such thing as privacy when you’re using Facebook.

 

[CarlJ]

Because who doesn't want more Zuckerberg in the most intimate parts of your life?

 

[Caliber26]

Ha!! Imagine granting Facebook access to all your sexts. Sadly, many will rush to download this garganta because the masses remain misinformed.

 

[Imory]

Why would anyone ever use this? Surely at this stage the privacy scandals from Facebook have caused enough of a ripple that most average users wouldn't feel comfortable using this?

To have the cheek to release this given their background is hilarious.

 

[erinsarah]

They’re a little late with the April Fools jokes.

 

[Jimmy Bubbles]

This is creepy AF! Why would anyone give this kind of info to any company, especially Facebook?

 

[yanksfan114]

Is this for nudes? This seems like its for nudes.

 

[Rogifan]

Who would use this?

 

[ruka.snow]

Thats a nope

 

[imnotthewalrus]

Because nothing says ”I love you” like sharing your lover’s personal data with Facebook.

 

[BarredOwl]

Facebook gets NOTHING from me. What a trashy company.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

Nice idea.
Wrong company.

 

[topmounter]

So a private space that isn't private. Got it.

Right, so you don't have to explain why you were sharing intimate pictures on Facebook when your account is "hacked". You just brush it off by saying "It's Tune, that's what it's for" and keep moving 🤸
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[BillyBobBongo]

A private space where you and your significant other can just be yourselves. With Tuned, you can be as mushy, quirky, and silly as you are together in person, even when you're apart. Creatively express your love, share your mood, exchange music, and build a digital scrapbook of your special moments.

Or you could just use messages.

 

[adamjackson]

I feel like an old man but to me private space is my home where I spend time with my girlfriend doing whatever we want free from Facebook's grasp. Maybe if I traveled a lot but iMessage is E2E encrypted so I'lll just keep using that.

 

[amgff84]

Facebook has quietly released Tuned, a new messaging app designed to provide a "private space" for couples to connect, reports The Information.

Designed by NPE, an experimental group within the company that was established last year, the app encourages couples to share messages, notes, cards, voice memos, photos and Spotify songs with each other, thereby creating a "digital scrapbook" of their relationship. As described on the App Store:
The free-to-use app connects couples using their phone number and doesn't require a Facebook account, although it does comform to Facebook's data policy, which means the information provided in the app could be used for ad targeting.

According to Facebook, the Tuned app was released under a separate brand "to help set the appropriate expectations with users that NPE Team apps will change very rapidly and may be shut down if we learn that they're not useful to people."

Tuned for iPhone is available to download today from the App Store. [Direct Link]

Article Link: Facebook Launches 'Tuned' Messaging App for Couples

I think couples are getting enough of each other right now...

 

[kissmo]

Who would use this?

Murderers, pedofiles, adulterers, lawyers the French and The Germans.
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[tgdbowler]

Hahahaha... "private"