Internet dating web sites have the capability to help a lonely bachelor line up dates with women, but there are an endless number of sites to choose from -- so in this article, I've give you three
dating service reviews to help you narrow down your choices.
Match.com is a pay site, and it's not cheap. Also, the cost (around $40 a month) creates a barrier of entry. In other words, this dating site is not swarmed with silly young girls who only just want to play games, nor is it filled with skeezy dudes who just want to send perverted messages.
Usually, the people on match.com are really looking for someone to date. With some internet dating services, their most important goal is to sign up as many members as possible, and then the site will lead you by notifying you about possible "matches" which are actually totally wrong for you. On the other hand, Match.com is a real community of like-minded men and women who are genuinely interested in finding a mate. I also found this site to be well-designed and professionally run; it's clear that they are serious, too, about helping people connect.
One of this site's main selling points is that it features very powerful search tools. You can search for girls not only based on location, but on many other factors that will show how compatible you are with them.
The Match.com staff approves photos. As a result, the site's users usually have high-quality pics that show them accurately. (This means you don't need to try to inspect blurry, badly-lit photos that make it difficult to tell whether she's a babe or a beast!)
The next site I'm going to review on my list of dating services is AreYouInterested.com, which borrows elements of the popular "Hot Or Not?" website. This website is misleading because it seems free at first, but really it charges rates that are almost on par with the high quality pay sites. This monthly fee can be worth it if you use it to get results, but in all honesty this site has too many problems for me to give it a positive evaluation.
You need to use this service with your Facebook account, which runs it as an application. The site feels like spam, with endless popup advertising "free gifts" for you to give away en masse to all the people you have clicked "Yes" to after seeing their picture for 2 seconds during the "Hot or Not" inspired part of the site.
You'll find that this website is full of bugs and errors as soon as you sign up. And you'll have a very hard time trying to access or use this site with a mobile phone, as many of the buttons will not be clickable. The site touts its ability to automatically read your interests, but do not be surprised it if makes a match between you and someone else based on the fact that you both like heavy metal polka, or some equally absurd assertion that has no basis in reality or anything you ever wrote in your Facebook profile.
I'm surprised that the developers of the site haven't bothered to fix these bugs. I have to assume that this site's real purpose is to make as many bogus "matches" as possible. You are encouraged to sign up for free, and then the site will send you a bunch of possible "matches" (from attractive girls, of course.) The site will also notify you when someone else thinks you are attractive, which will of course make you want to contact them. To do so, you will need to fork over considerable money.
Most of these so-called matches are actually young girls (16-25 years old) who are not even single. They join the site without any respect for the notion that some of the people on the site are actually single and lonely. Their only goal is to boost their ego by seeing how many men click "Yes" on their photos.
The last site on my list of dating service reviews is eHarmony, which prides itself on coming up with a complicated algorithm to make amazing matches between potential soul mates. However, many ex-eHarmony users complain that the site does not actually work well in the real world. The matches it comes up with seem to be random sometimes. Another irritating aspect of this site is that lots of profiles are left on the site, even though the users ended their contract with eHarmony months ago. Having millions of profiles on their site is great for marketing, but it causes frustration for guys who try to contact those users and can't get a response. I like some of eHarmony's features, but not enough to recommend this site. Spend your money on another dating service. Successful dating requires actually going on dates. If you cannot get a date from the site, it is basically useless.