If your crush isn’t on Dating, doesn’t create a Secret Crush list, or doesn’t put you on their list, no one will know that you’ve entered a friend’s name. Wrong, Facebook will know.

I can just see it now. Me typing the names of nine crushes into Secret Crush feature only to have Facebook get hacked and all of those crushes get alerted via DM.

Secret Crush will help give Facebook an advantage over competing dating apps, which can’t similarly leverage information about your existing friendships. Tinder is great if you want to meet ...

Facebook Dating could help reveal a “secret crush” on your friends list. The feature works a lot like Tinder, but can also help you discover which of your pals already fancies you.

With Secret Crush just beginning to be rolled out as part of Facebook Dating, it's too early to know whether or not the feature will truly have serious repercussions.

If your crush isn’t on Dating, doesn’t create a Secret Crush list, or doesn’t put you on their list, no one will know that you’ve entered a friend’s name. Wrong, Facebook will know.