Reply To: Best dating sites?

[janey]

Prepare to kiss a lot of frogs!

Tinder – easy, fun, don’t take it personally if you match and don’t get a message, or message and don’t get a reply. A lot of people treat it like a game. But it’s good fun, and I have had some good dates as a result.

Bumble – works like Tinder, but women have to make the first move. Theoretically it’s a more enlightened bunch on there. In practice it’s the same people you’ll see everywhere else and personally I don’t like having to make the first move EVERY time! There’s also a time limit for messaging or they disappear forever.

Plenty of Fish. Practically everyone is on POF, so even if you have to sift through a lot of dross (and you will) if you have patience you can find some cracking people on there. I have had my best results from POF.

Match – exactly the same bunch as you’ll find elsewhere, but you have to pay for it. Not worth it, IMO, despite their large marketing budget.

EHarmony – prides itself on getting large numbers of people hitched. Probably because the sign up process is so tortuous – and then you discover you have to pay before you can look at who’s on it locally – that only the truly committed / desperate get as far as actually joining the site. I haven’t bothered, but others I know have got married as a result, so …

There are millions of others. You’ll discover them in time, and discover the same nomadic bunch of people moving from one app to another like a vast migrating herd of wildebeest all desperately hoping that the new wonder app is the place they’ll find true love.

Don’t take anything personally, see the humour in everything, trust your instinct, and if it’s hard work – it’s not working!

Try speed dating. You’re unlikely to meet anyone, but it is BRILLIANT fun, and a super ego boost! I’ll come with you if you aren’t too far away!

Good luck!

FYI I have been single for four years and counting_