Best Online Dating Service??

[munish]

Have you tried this one.

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[ChrisGinsburg]

I found my wife on date.com after 1 week seven years ago. I took a chance and hopped on a bus halfway across the country. To this day we are still together.

[Cochonette]

You need look no further than the following profile to know that this website is basically a place for world-class professors to hook up:

OkCupid | Monolycus1 / 41 / M / Y?ngw?l, South Korea

[Benton]

I've had pretty poor luck on all the dating sites. I've tried POF, OKC, Match and Chemistry and put quite a bit of work into them.

With OKC I ended up getting a single date with somebody I didn't find at all attractive.

That being said, I don't think it was the fault of the sites themselves. I think mostly it had to do with the fact that I don't present a terribly attractive persona (which I'm working on) and I live in the sticks, which limits my selection within 50 miles.

I have heard of people having great success on OKC more than any other site, however.

[gingerbaker]

Originally Posted by Cochonette

On POF, I had to search San Francisco or Toronto just to find one or two other overly intellectual, pretentiously queer folks. LOL... on OkCupid, that's like all there is. XD Oh, God, it reminds me of D.C., where my social status is in the bottom 2%. :P

YES! most of my IRL poly-kinky-bi friends are on OKC. I *adore* OKC, though I haven't actually logged on in over a year. That's because I met (in person) at least 6 awesome, amazing people in a 2-3 month period, of which 3 of whom are some of my closest friends (and this is from one short period almost 2 years ago!). I stopped logging on simply because I have very limited free time and I couldn't stand turning *clearly* fabulous people down to meet up when my plate was so full.

Answering a decent number of questions is vital. Once I hit about 600 or so, it guaranteed that anyone I met who matched me over 80% would be really cool, and over 86% meant wickedly awesome and VERY high chance they were poly, kinky, bi and possibly hippie parents too.

[Nymphaedra]

I had a phase where I joined almost every large online dating site. Within a very short period of time (1-2 weeks) I deleted PoF and Match as it was just really horny guys looking hookups. OKC lasted a little longer but despite all the personal info I was comfortable with advertising I just kept getting people who ignored all of that and went for physical appearance.

So far, the only one that I've had very successful dates on was eharmony... I never paid for the site, just waited until they had those free communication weekends. In that regard patience was a virtue, and I met some really awesome men on there that I actually connected with and dated for a while. (My friend is actually getting married this coming summer and she met her fiance on eharmony ^_^)

So that's my two cents, lol

Nym ★

[pyrogen]

OKCupid is now so full of married, poly and attached people as to be useless for the purposes of finding a monogamous partnership. Every time I "Quickmatch", half of everyone who will come up... is "seeing someone" or is poly. You also don't get to see a person's religious or family-starting preferences until you've already matched them.

[MichaelAnthonyVet]

When I first got back from Iraq, I tried a bunch of online dating sites. The best ones were: Craigslist.com. OkCupid.com and Match.com

Craigslist.com: Free: A lot of people are on there, and post every day, but I wouldn't recommend it anymore, I've heard that there's a lot of weirdo's on there now (it was a few years ago when I used it). No profiles or anything either, people would just post a paragraph or two and no one ever uses photos.

OkCupid.com: Free: Was good, but it's weird, a lot of people are on there 'just looking for friends' like they already had crappy relationships, or no friends, and wanted more friends? I was never sure about that part.

Match.com: Paid: Was the best. Since it's a pay site, people are more serious about looking for relationships, and they put more time into their profiles. Probably the best site out there, I know a lot of people who've used and have had success.

On a side note. My brother just got married and he met his wife on EHarmony!

[AndrewJen]

okcupid was a good experience, i met a handful of girls who most are still good friends (very close, possibly due to our match% being so high).

I ended up meeting my current gf at school and only occassionally log in to okc because while it can be a dating site, I also believe there tests, quizzes and profiling are great tools for self-discovery and development.

[pyrogen]

Originally Posted by MichaelAnthonyVet

When I first got back from Iraq, I tried a bunch of online dating sites. The best ones were: Craigslist.com. OkCupid.com and Match.com

Craigslist.com: Free: A lot of people are on there, and post every day, but I wouldn't recommend it anymore, I've heard that there's a lot of weirdo's on there now (it was a few years ago when I used it). No profiles or anything either, people would just post a paragraph or two and no one ever uses photos.

OkCupid.com: Free: Was good, but it's weird, a lot of people are on there 'just looking for friends' like they already had crappy relationships, or no friends, and wanted more friends? I was never sure about that part.

Match.com: Paid: Was the best. Since it's a pay site, people are more serious about looking for relationships, and they put more time into their profiles. Probably the best site out there, I know a lot of people who've used and have had success.

On a side note. My brother just got married and he met his wife on EHarmony!

Originally Posted by AndrewJen

okcupid was a good experience, i met a handful of girls who most are still good friends (very close, possibly due to our match% being so high).

I ended up meeting my current gf at school and only occassionally log in to okc because while it can be a dating site, I also believe there tests, quizzes and profiling are great tools for self-discovery and development.

I think that the problem with OKCupid may be that it's too general and casts too wide a net.

It's devolved into Facebook Lite instead of being pretty specifically a dating service. And as such, it's starting to have the problems of the "real world" - meaning that people are afraid to admit they want a relationship, and play all the same games they play in "real life". Online dating should shortcut a lot of that. Online dating does come with its own special set of problems, but at least *normally* you know that everyone there is on the same page about finding someone.

If you join Match.com or Eharm, you're not there to make platonic friends... there is no ambiguity.

But it seems half the people on OKCupid are there for some other reason. There aren't enough single people on it anymore for it to really be a good service for dating.

I am sick to death of flipping past people in my quickmatch who say in their profile, "Oh, I already met someone... but I'm looking to make friends". People on there leave their profiles up after they pair off. It doesn't seem that very many people on there are unambiguously looking for a relationship. It's also kind of become PolyMatch... and even then, most of the polies are already paired off with a primary partner and are looking for a "second fiddle". Where does that leave polies who want to find a primary partner of their own?

If I wanted my chances to be as good as they are in "real life" - I'd just start going to more parties, and not bother with a dating service.

[jessicaskims]

I think Ashley Madison is crazy expensive. I do like POF - it's free and easy to navigate.