Match.com links up with Facebook

Match.com, an old standby of online dating, wants to make some new connections among the fast-growing number of Facebook users worldwide.

Dating website Match.com, owned by media mogul Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp, has launched two features that bring greater social networking capabilities to its more than 15 million Match.com members and to the roughly 58 million active users of privately held Facebook.

Match.com has introduced Little Black Book, a new way to link Facebook users with Match.com daters, and Match My Friends, which allows friends or family members of a prospective online dater to create a profile for him or her -- with the approval by the wannabe dater.

Little Black Book lets Facebook users sign up to see the other Facebook users who hope to date someone. Once they’re signed up, users of Little Black Book receive potential matches among Facebook users and non-Facebook users who are signed up with Match.com.