Any good online dating websites?

[crazybestie101]

Hey everyone,

 

So most of my past relationships/dating has been from meeting in person or via friends but now i wanted to try online dating. Is it good? Can you find real love out of it? What are some good websites/app??

 

I am about to start health professional school, i know i will be super busy and wont have that many opportunity to meet someone so thought i would try this out. From past year or two i have tried initiating things with guys i meet at school or any professional event but haven't been successful. All this time i felt that when its time i will meet my MR.right.. But i have comes to realize that it isn't happening. I need start putting efforts in meeting that one..

[d0nnivain]

I think you will have luck meeting a like minded person at school.

 

 

That said all of the OLD sites you have heard of have good points & bad points. Pick the one that seems most attuned to who you are & what you want. For example if you are Buddhist, Muslim or Jewish, Christian Mingle probably isn't for you. If you are over 50, I'd try Our Time before it's parent, Match.com

[smackie9]

Try going to actual social events, pubs, out door activities, etc, not professional events. Go on line and see what is happening in your city, and grab some GFs, have a good time.

 

BTW there is nothing wrong with making the first move and ask a nice fellow out for a coffee.

[Gaeta]

Depends where you are located. I heard in the US Badoo is a bad hook-up place while up here in Canada it's the only half-serious place to meet someone.

 

On a different note: If you don't have time to search for someone then you don't have time to date.

[joseb]

Depends where you are located. I heard in the US Badoo is a bad hook-up place while up here in Canada it's the only half-serious place to meet someone.

 

On a different note: If you don't have time to search for someone then you don't have time to date.

 

All I've seen on Badoo is pics of girls in bikinis who are "waiting to meet me" -

so I think Canada must be the exception.

 

Tinder, on the other hand, has less and less of that - most women are looking for serious relationships,

thought not sure if as many guys are.

[Otter2569]

Realize the many OLD sites are time wasters and are full of fakes, pervs and ghosters. Many on there are incapable of replying or typing more than a few basic words. Having said that, there are some finds out there. You have to screen and be patient. Find a site that best matches your life style and age demographic.

[JarodOner]

OkCupid (Free), Match (Paid) are the best from everything I've read.

[ironspider]

I've met women on cupid, POF and tinder.

 

Cupid and POF seem to work for me more than tinder.

 

All you need is a good opener.

[Conviction]

I tried most of the common ones. Match was where I had the best luck. My interpretation is, if someone is paying for the service, they are more likely to take it seriously. The free ones were a joke. Fun for experimenting with openers, communicating, etc, but horrible for finding someone serious.

[chloe214]

I don't mind people who use it but I honestly don't think its a good thing. I think a relationship should start by person to person, face to face, in real life. This way we can develop a more deep relationship in which we can understand the other side better, In my opinion online dating seems like a shallow way to actually find a partner since we can only communicate with a computer screen instead of a more personal setting like real life. Also in my views online dating seems like a "I'm gonna look at this persons face and if they are not attractive enough its a pass" type system. Either way I don't mind online dating becoming popular, Its just that I'm not going to use it. Consult to a professional matchmaker instead of joining to an online dating site.

[mortensorchid]

I have met guys on POF, Tinder as well as Match. I would say with the shear volume of people you are going to meet, Match and POF are high on the list. Whatever you do, don't do eHarmony. It's a very expensive way to talk to people - you spend about an hour or so filling out the questionnaire, then you ultimately put in your zip code and they do a search based on the radius of X miles from the zip code. Thanks to their "sophisticated means of matching" you will meet MAYBE 2 people before others get tired of the nonsense and endless questions they ask before you can actually exchange an email message with the person. You'll end up frustrated.

 

But in other means, don't just subject yourself to online methods, try others as well in order to meet as many people as possible.

[Tressugar]

This is just me saying this, but I would avoid the OLD like the black plague.

 

You definitely reap huge benefits by meeting ppl in real life such as school, clubs, meet ups with girl friends and just going about your own life.

 

It seems that OLD has too many not quality ppl on there. If you're anything like me I don't have time for ppl's games or bs. I've gotten further when I meet ppl in real life.

[crazybestie101]

Hey everyone,

 

Thank you for your reply. I will try making profile on POF, tinder..lets see what happens..

 

To those who asked me to meet people in real life, in past all the guys I went out I met through friends. So I know what you mean. But now I am in health profession school for next 4 year with not so much free time. So chances of mee going to places to meet people is very low. However, I have my eyes on one of my classmate but I am afraid it won't be great idea to date someone from same class. Since if things were to go sour it would be hard since we are classmates for next 4 years ..

 

I do want to meet someone with same mindset but then I end up meeting those people in professional setting that somehow kills my chances. The good portion of my class is either engaged or in long tern relationship, I am just tired of waiting for that time to come when I am going to meet that special one,so I wanted to make effort on my own.

[Penguin_hugs]

Hi there I can empathise. I did a pharmacy degree so I know what it's like when you are so busy with studying that you can't constantly go out and meet people- but that a date would be nice!

 

Meeting people on your course can be really variable. The majority of people when I did my degree were older, over 60% were married or engaged by the end and a lot of them were muslim, hindu or sikh and didn't want to date a non religious person like myself. I had a date with a guy on my course who had been messaging me all summer break- but after the date he had a girlfriend the following week! It was awkward between us for at least the next year- so be careful if you do date from your course! A few people did and they had bad breakups that were then awkward for the rest of us!

 

Having said that- one couple got together the 2nd week of our degree and married in final year!

 

Also depends on whether you "date up" or not. I'm a sapiophile- so learning things from someone more intelligent than myself is a big turn on. So dating from my course wasn't really an option. (Not intending to brag- but people were usually coming to me for help with work)

 

I used POF and met my ex from there. It all worked out ok for me. I didn't actually find that many opportunities for socialising at Uni. I only had time for a few societies (with the intensity of my course), my course mates didn't go out much (like twice a year). I did have other uni friends but it didn't end up in me finding many people to date.

 

Good luck with your course- keep your options open with dating. I just found online was easier to fit in with my studying and lifestyle. And I found POF worked for me as people had made more of an effort with their profiles. That was before Tinder had been invented though!

 

I'm debating starting dating again in a few months and will probably try POF again as I'm about to move to a new area where I don't know anyone and there aren't any meet up groups in the area

[Dark Horse]

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