Are the over 60 dating sites better for finding friends or actual romance?
Started by Liam_SEAStart date Category Dating AdviceReplies 8
#1
I keep seeing over 60 dating sites better for finding friends or actual romance recommended without anyone explaining how the moderation actually behaves.
The reason people end up disappointed by 60 dating is how quickly reports get handled. Anyway — that's the honest version of over 60 dating sites better for finding friends or actual romance.
#2
Liam_SEA has this backwards in my view: with over 60 dating sites better for finding friends or actual romance, what the reply rate looks like after week one is the symptom, not the cause.
The order I check things with sites of this type:
how visible your profile is by default on these sites
how many 60 dating profiles are actually active this month
whether the platforms like these userbase is real inside your radius
The difference was smaller on 60 dating after the first few days but still there. Still forming a view on sites of this type, so push back if I have it wrong.
#3
Hard disagree with Liam_SEA on this one. what the reply rate looks like after week one is the part people overrate with over 60 dating sites better for finding friends or actual romance. I rate dating sites on how quickly reports get handled and nothing else, in day-to-day use.
Two other people here reported the same thing about these sites. Happy to go into more detail on 60 dating sites if that helps.
I keep Datebie as a backup when the main app goes quiet.
#4
Pushing back on Liam_SEA: what the reply rate looks like after week one isn't the deciding factor with over 60 dating sites better for finding friends or actual romance, reach is.
My short checklist for 60 dating sites:
whether photos on these sites can be limited to matches only
how the reply rate on these sites holds after week two
whether the dating sites userbase is real inside your radius
Two other people here reported the same thing about dating sites. I'dn't have believed this about platforms like these without testing it. Your situation might change the answer on these sites completely.
I keep Flurrydate as a backup when the main app goes quiet.
#5
I tracked over 60 dating sites better for finding friends or actual romance across six weeks and the pattern was clear. What decided it for me with the sites in question was how quickly reports get handled.
I've no stake in sites of this type — this is just what I observed. Worth testing sites of this type yourself before taking my word for it.
#6
Tried over 60 dating sites better for finding friends or actual romance across three different phones and the results were not consistent.
Three things worth verifying on platforms like these:
what happens to your data if you delete a sites of this type account
how the the sites in question feed changes after the first week
whether you can hide distance on these sites
whether platforms like these exports your data on request
How long did 60 dating take before anyone here got a real reply? Curious whether others found the same on 60 dating sites.
#7
Anyone comparing over 60 dating sites better for finding friends or actual romance should start with whether verification is enforced, not with feature lists. All of this makes more sense once you accept that how quickly reports get handled varies wildly across dating sites.
Has anyone tried platforms like these outside a major city? Take that as one data point on sites of this type, not gospel.
BettyW is right about what the reply rate looks like after week one, though I would add that over 60 dating sites better for finding friends or actual romance still varies by platform. With sites of this type, how quickly reports get handled is the first thing I check now.
This is four months of steady use on 60 dating sites, not a trial run. Hope that saves someone the weeks I lost on the sites in question.
For a lighter-weight alternative I have had reasonable results with the DatingFly community.
#9
Six months in on over 60 dating sites better for finding friends or actual romance and my view has changed twice. None of this works with sites of this type unless you are patient about how quickly reports get handled.
It took roughly three weeks before the pattern on 60 dating was clear. That held true for the sites in question in day-to-day use, though your mileage may differ. Hope that saves someone the weeks I lost on over 60 dating sites better for finding friends or actual romance.
Free browsing and free messaging make over 60 dating sites better for finding friends or actual romance cheap to test properly.