Online Dating Sites Review
Chris warns about the dangers of online dating services. From members being able to badly misrepresent themselves to sites that give your information to other sites without informing you, there’s a lot that can happened. Read more about learning to be careful on certain sites:
In general, I find that dating websites are grossly overpriced for little more than an experience one might have at a bar or a party. Obviously, the crowds in the online dating community are swelling on a daily basis, but the pickings are slim all over. I find that in general, there is no sense of a holistic self conveyed through dating services, and there is too much room to be terribly misleading. For example, Match.com paired me up with a lady from my local town. In the pictures she sent me and from her description she seemed great. The reality could not have been further from that: she lived with her parents, was far more overweight than she let on (and I like ladies with a full figure), and had one of the most ignorant and irritating personalities I have ever encountered. This is, I suppose, a general danger of finding potential dates online. More specifically, some websites will offer free trials, but fail to overtly mention that the user has also been concurrently signed up for trials on a number of other websites. Because I have rather unique preferences when it comes to dating, I subscribed years ago to a free trial on a well known dating site. Little did I realize I had also been enrolled in trials at their partner sites, so although I canceled my membership before the trial period was over, I ended up being charged huge fees for the other sites. Ridiculous. My bad experiences aside (I do not go near online dating anymore), many people I know have had very positive encounters, and even met some fantastic and long term partners through web matchmaking sites. Although it is tempting to use the internet to find a mate as it seems easier to find a specific kind of person with a narrow set of interests that match one’s own, keep in mind that it is just as easy for someone to misrepresent themselves.