MarkWA65 Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 What is your favorite online dating site? I have been checking out link removed, link removed, link removed, link removed, link removed, and link removed but haven't had much luck with any of them yet, although I have had a few dates with women I ment on eHarmony just no spark. Here is how I would rate them thus far from 1 - 10 (10 being best) 6 - link removed 3 - link removed 3 - link removed 2 - link removed 1 - link removed 1 - link removed Thanx --MJ Link to comment
shikashika Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I don't want to pay.. so i have only used plenty of fish and lavalife. You could meet great people anywhere and weirdos anywhere. Link to comment
darkpumpkin Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 6-eharmony 3-plenty of fish (but I don't find many realistic people on there in a 4 year period) link removed Have not tried the others. Link to comment
tiredofvampires Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I don't care for Match. It's too mainstream. Tried eHarmony and not only was I told I "have no matches at this time", which made me depressed for a whole day, but I also think the premise stinks. I want to choose people that I can feel out and intiate contact with. eHarmony seems like it's all based on tests, and I've found tests to be only superficially accurate anyway. So eHarmony can bite me. I found my last relationship on link removed. I liked their psychological test and expansive results, but the freedom to choose my own contacts. I would go back there if I didn't associate the worst break-up of my life with it. Can't blame the site for the guy/relationship I got into. But I just don't really like mainstream sites at all -- too many people it seems who are just cruisng through, not serious, or else there are too many people there who I don't feel have as much interest in personal growth as I do. So a while back, I found link removed. It appears to have people who are more on my wavelength, in terms of desire for inner development, personal growth, interest in more than just superficial interaction....and I have yet to put up a profile that is even worth viewing. I have not wanted to start proactively dating yet, but this is a site I would like to stay on, if I do move in this direction again. I just saw an ad for link removed, that I thought was very funny and persuasive. I'll be posting a thread about it at some point. Link to comment
Ash Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Although I met my partner of several years now on a dating site, it came from a completely unexpected direction. I was basically shutting off my profile on a particular site (because I found the women I did contact on their quite rude and it was quite expensive) and she was on because she'd been trying to determine just how far off the beaten path her spouse had strayed. Maybe we met for the wrong reasons, but it all worked out. In general, I don't like the pay sites, particularly the more expensive ones, and very particularly the ones that have men paying more than women for the same set of services (or is this common??) In general I found I got very little out of the money I paid and prefer free sites. But that's how I like all my computer activities, it has to be very, VERY good to justify paying because at the end of the day, I don't want to pay somebody who is just out for my cash. What I do look for is software, a system, whatever that is written because the software writers making it wanted it to work well because they just plain WANTED it. Money was not the goal, performance was. You see that abound everywhere. The expensive sites tend to be slower and more restrictive because they're after your cash. The free sites seem to be better somehow. My ramblings. But consider this place. It's free and it's good. It's not a dating site however though! Link to comment
Clementine orange Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I have tried most of them and had have very little luck at all. I mean, I've gone on dates but the women....it just wasn't working out. Man, does one hear some hard luck stories though...as well as some very odd stories as well. It is an interesting world. Without sounding too weird, I've met some very interesting women here on ENA - some of whom I would love to get to know better. It's too bad this isn't a dating site - all the fascinating women are here! Link to comment
Aurian Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 1 - Lavalife - Its a pay site, but its pay per email as opposed to a flat monthly fee. There were plenty of people in my area on the site and I found my (still) long-term bf there. 2 - Okcupid - Free site, lots of locals and interesting quiz system you can use to play around on or find compatible people. 3 - eHarmony - I received plenty of matches, but none of them even made the first date. I guess I am compatible with people who don`t want to pay and with people who don`t want to date offline. Felt like it was a waste of money - would have been better if only PAYING matches showed up - people I could initiate contact with, as opposed to scads of profiles with no activity. 4 - plentyoffish - free site, but in my area it seems more like a social networking site. Little interest in me and no response to my own emails. Most were already taken or not looking - just there for friends. Discouraging. 5 - link removed - didn`t bother paying since I got no emails, no winks and no responses to my own winks. Just seemed dead. Link to comment
tiredofvampires Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 (Still trying to figure out how to do multiple quotes from different posters here...if anyone can clue me in, I'd love it!!!!) But consider this place. It's free and it's good. It's not a dating site however though! Without sounding too weird, I've met some very interesting women here on ENA - some of whom I would love to get to know better. It's too bad this isn't a dating site - all the fascinating women are here! True, true and true (for me, the gents of course!!) Yeah, you know this site is so full of people who love to introspect, who have a desire to reach out to other people who are struggling, who have not had it all on a silver spoon. There are some amazing guys here. Too bad they are all either taken, emotionally not in a place to be dated, live far from me, and just, well, I wouldn't want to be inappropriate, lol. I totally agree though, Clementine, the fascinating people are definitely here, and it's much more invigorating to be mutually sharing openly to me about real life things, without having to impress anyone, than trying to do the awkward dating routine. I wish I could meet more of these people in real life sometimes, too. At very least, great friendships would be the result (though I love my friends here as they are, too.) Link to comment
ghost69 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 is online your main or only avenue for meeting someone? Link to comment
MarkWA65 Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 is online your main or only avenue for meeting someone?Right now I would say "mostly" as I am still looking for places to go and meet women. I plan to go se a friends band play this weekend and the following weekend I am going to a local sporting event. So i am trying to increase the frequency which I have oppertunities to meet people. But I figured this would be a great way to start while I work myself back into the real world --M Link to comment
ghost69 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 well, being out in those open places and with friends, you should have no problems meeting women. got a single friend? wingman! Link to comment
MarkWA65 Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 well, being out in those open places and with friends, you should have no problems meeting women. got a single friend? wingman!A ctually I have a single friend ... and he is straight ... but he likes to dress as a woman to go to bars and pick up women ... so I'm not going to be hanging out with him as a wingman/wingwoman ... I would love to know how he does so well with women doing that tho. --M Link to comment
ghost69 Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 A ctually I have a single friend ... and he is straight ... but he likes to dress as a woman to go to bars and pick up women ... so I'm not going to be hanging out with him as a wingman/wingwoman ... I would love to know how he does so well with women doing that tho. --M uhm, find someone more normal. he is probably so out there and talkative or something. you will not find me or any of my friends dressing up like that to get women. no way. Link to comment
MarkWA65 Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 Yea he is a bit strange ... hehe --M Link to comment
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