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You've finally decided to take the plunge and join the online dating world. Well you couldn't resist it for much longer now more and more of your friends have been outed and admit (perhaps a little reluctantly) that they've joined a dating site or even met the love of their life on one. The question is with so many to choose from - what's the best dating site for you?
What’s the Best Dating Site for You?
Who am I to give advice? Well as a veteran of many online dating campaigns to track down my soul mate using dozens of dating sites over a three year period I’m probably as qualified as anyone to give advice in this area based on personal experience.
However having had first hand experience of dozens of dating sites over this period I would still hesitate to recommend any! Instead may I suggest you try the sites I refer to in this article and any others that take your fancy to find out which is the best dating site for you before considering paying for a subscription.
All of the dating sites I refer to here allow you to try before you buy. This means you can do the following for free:
- Add your profile
- Look at other members’ profiles
- Send “I am interested in you” messages sometimes called “flirts” to find out if the feeling is mutual
NB You cannot send or receive emails using the site’s messaging system without paying for a subscription although sometimes these dating sites allow this for a limited period at certain times – often referred to as “free weekends” or “free 24 hours” etc.
How do you decide which is the best dating site for you?
Choosing a dating site is not like choosing a washing machine or computer so I would suggest it’s pointless to choose a dating site purely based on dating site reviews whose recommendations are usually based on a features comparison. After all you are not shopping around for the best dating site features but for the features of someone who’s your ideal match!
However dating site reviews serve as a useful insight into what you can expect although the only surefire way of discovering which one is best for you is to try before you buy.
Here is what I would suggest based on my personal experience:
- Create a sensational and honest personal profile or if you haven’t got the time or find it difficult to write about yourself and the type of person you are looking for pay for someone to do it for you. With thousands if not millions of other members vying for attention your profile has just got to be sensational to grab the attention of other members. Unless you are prepared to invest time or money in this area you might as well forget about online dating!
- Join a couple of dating sites and perhaps one that matches your niche interest.
- Take a good look around and find perhaps two or three people that you are attracted to from each site and send them “flirts.”
- When you receive a favorable response consider paying for a subscription to enable you to start communicating with the person.
The next decision you might need to make can be the most difficult. Let’s say you’re lucky enough to receive favorable replies to your “flirt” from two people on different sites then the question is “am I prepared to join two sites?” When I was faced with this decision invariably I joined two sites and often you’ll find the same people on both!
Ironically I met my partner on one of the dating sites I founded in 2006 for single people who love dogs!
Incidentally I’m not suggesting starting your own dating site is a good way to find your soul mate although some of my friends suspected that was my motive for doing so for this site and the two others I founded later.
The three dating sites I founded are free to join, add your profile and take a good look at other members’ profiles. You might like to consider joining one or more if it resonates with your interest or passion.
My Dating Sites
This is my senior people meet dating site for singles over 50 who would like to meet others of a similar age. Like all my sites it’s free to join and free to browse members profiles. With thousands of members there’s bound to be some near you so why not take a peek!
www.ourlifeourtime.com
I founded the first must love dogs dating site in the world in 2006 – www.doglover.biz. This dating site is ideal for dog lovers who are not prepared to settle for anyone less than a fellow dog lover. Makes perfect sense to me but then I am a dog lover and actually met my partner there so I know it works!
www.thirdagedating.com is the senior online dating site for mature people who would like to meet others from the same generation as distinct from those dating sites for Cougars and Sugardaddies who are looking for people from a different generation!
www.attracion.com which I founded in a moment of sadness when I was fed up getting bombarded by adult sites that were encouraging me to have affairs and such like. Well I had tried that many years ago and had concluded that affairs were not suitable for the faint hearted and that included me. So www.attracion.com was born for people who didn’t like having affairs and were more interested in finding the love of their life NOT the loves of their lives!
www.attracion.com
I encourage you to try my sites and others first before parting with your hard earned cash which of course you will need to do should you see someone you like and wish to contact them. Really there is no substitute for trying dating sites before buying to find out which is the best dating site for you.
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