OkCupid Review October 2018

Once you sign up it is IMPOSSIBLE to take it down. BY ALL Means stay away from cupid. For instance, when you are the free user you can let the girl know that you are interested in her and check if she also finds you attractive.

I also would like to receive my messages as soon as I get them. Original review: March 5, 2018 They are particularly horrible in deception, choices in my area and have no customer service. One interesting feature of Cupid.

OkCupid Review October 2018 - I recommend sign up a month before you travel. Beware this apparently ' good ' company.

OKCupid: Not too shabby for a free dating site Even though I've been told that I'm a smart, caring and even attractive fellow, it wasn't until I was in my 30s and got an Internet Service Provider that I was able to enter... Even though I've been told that I'm a smart, caring and even attractive fellow, it wasn't until I was in my 30s and got an Internet Service Provider that I was able to enter the sometimes thrilling, often chilling world of dating. This Achilles' heel of mine really hindered my sex life when I was younger; from junior high school all the way to college and even beyond, I didn't have any girlfriends. Worse still, I was so certain that women would reject me that it became what psychologists call a self-fulfilling prophecy. However, once I discovered the joys and pitfalls of instant messaging, Yahoo! Chat before it became infested with porn bots and the other neat socializing features of the Internet, I was finally able to get over the fear of rejection and strike up conversations with women, especially with women who were interested in relationships and intimacy. While I often got myself into difficult situations and had more than my fair share of heartbreaks, I have had a few romantic relationships with women. For the most part, these relationships have tended to be long-distance relationships LDR which required some form of interstate travel. My first face-to-face meet with a romantic partner entailed a flight to Colorado and other expenses, while another depended on a series of Greyhound bus trips in Florida and Georgia. After my last LDR ended in 2004, i decided to try harder and find local dates instead of having to deal with all the ups and downs of falling for women who live hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away. No matter how much I like to travel and seek out exciting situations, LDRs are incredibly tough on both parties, both financially and emotionally. And of course, there's the whole issue of trust in such a situation. After all, how can a person know for sure what his or her partner is doing - dating or sex-wise - when he or she is a thousand miles away? Now, I don't drive a car, and my area's mass transit system is not exactly the world's most efficient, so I don't get out on my own much in a metro area which is geared more toward the automobile than to the pedestrian. Premium ones tend to go from the seriously romantic eharmony to the purely smutty AdultFriendFinder , with Mate1. Free sites also exist; but results in there are often hit-or-miss. Once, I joined Plentyoffish. To this date, I have not heard from any. Another site I used is, of course, OKCupid. Our advanced matching system is based on you, and what you find important. Tell us about yourself and we'll help you find your perfect match. With over a million quality singles from all around the world, you can make a new friend or set up a date—all for free! And, with 234 or so sovereign nations on Earth, there's no way that I'm going to go fact-finding this for Viewpoints! I didn't date in high school or college, though Lord knows I wanted to, and I didn't lose my virginity till I was in my late 30s. That was almost me! Perhaps it is because my disability makes me painfully shy, or maybe it was because I fell in love with the wrong women, but I have not exactly been very experienced with women, love, or intimacy. For instance, one woman I checked out was an 82% match, with a breakdown of 80% Friend and 15% Enemy. The Friend and Enemy percentages are based on how our attitudes either converge or clash. Another OKCupid indicator of how good or bad a potential match is the Personality graph, which takes data from your Match Questions and then creates a Venn diagram-like chart that shows you, for instance, who is more spiritual, who is better-mannered, who is more desirous of sex, and so on. The percentages are how each of you compare to the rest of the OkCupid population. The woman I'm now dating yep, I met her on OKCupid assiduously avoided all sex-related questions, so if I were to go by the graphs that compare our personality traits, I'd have no clue as to whether she's more desirous of sex or kinkier than me. There are ways on OKCupid to get such details... There will be members who will find dates super-easy, while others will probably wait for weeks, months or even years before they find a good match. There will also be trolls, creeps, spammers, con artists and perverts, as well as members whose lifestyles may not appeal to others. This is unavoidable due to the inherent diversity of OKCupid's membership and the nature of the Internet. On the whole, for a free site, OKCupid is not too shabby. Many members do get dates or whatever they seek , and some even end up in steady relationships. Not for females looking for serious relationships I actually really like OkCupid; I've been using it for about 3 years now. I actually really like OkCupid; I've been using it for about 3 years now. I think it's the type of men on OkCupid. I will not be using dating sites to meet guys anymore, surprisingly, the old school way seemed to work better in my case. Honestly I used several paid and unpaid and I was most impressed with this one. Although some of the math questions it asks are rather irrelevant in my opinion, I did meet the love of my life on this site. We have been together almost 2 years and been married almost a year. I recommend this to all of my friends who are looking to try online dating because it worked so well for me! All I can say is: If you happen to be a really attractive woman with an outgoing, fun personality, this site will have you swiping left 95% of the time. The 5% of dates you go on will be with men who are average or below average looks wise and who pass a vague resemblance to their actual pics. Coupled with their sub-bar faces you'll be ending the date early so you can go home and chill with your Netflix. If you happen to stumble upon a genuinely attractive guy with a seemingly interesting profile, it's almost 100% guarantee that the pics are fake or of some IG male model. Steer clear of OKCupid, ladies. I have met several nice people there but most recently about 90% of the users that contact me are catfish and scammers. There are catfish and scammers on every dating site. Monitoring of OKC used to be very diligent and profiles were deleted quickly once reported. Now it's several days or up to a week. But if you are patient, eventually real people can be found. Just be wary, look for the scammer grammar speech, avoid profiles that are Native American Vegetarian, Engineers that travel a lot in their jobs. Not to insult any actual Native Americans that are really vegetarian and engineers. But that has been the profile of every single scammer on OKC that has contacted me. Additionally, Google Image Search is your friend. There have been some problems though. You have to pay a monthly fee to see who likes you and if someone read your message, but in return you can visit peoples site and not worry about them seeing that you visited Works great if you visit people who are starkers IRL, Happened to me once, visited a girls page, wasn't entrusted in her, kept sending me messages. I was hesitant on dating online because i thought online dating was for middle-aged plus lol, but actually I felt perfectly at ease with this site. I met my long-term boyfriend on this site and we've been together for 6 months now : There are a lot of creepy guys on the site, and there are some who are genuinely trying to find a good relationship. For one thing, they have the naturally counterproductive business model of a drug company. If they cure you, you don't come back, so the idea is to keep you... Now that OKCupid is part of Match, their goal is to entice you to pay. Gone are the days of the OKCupid blog with all the fun and enlightening statistics. They used user-generated tests that were aimed at matching people up. Second, they try to cater to a wide audience with different wants and needs the same way. Consider two single 25-year-olds versus two divorced 50-year olds with children. These pair are at different stages of life looking for different things, yet OKCupid treats them the same way. Third, profiles can be open-ended. That is, they can contain virtually no information or they can be filled with photos, questions, tests. There is no set bar and no real mechanism to entice the former to become the latter. A way to reverse this is to make the lazy people pay. Give them 30 days to get a feel for the site and then they either fill in their profile or start paying up. Men overwhelmingly email women who are thus overwhelmed with emails. There is no filtering mechanism to manage it. Some people are bound to have success here. They are after all bringing people together who do want the same basic thing. Ease of Use It's pretty easy to fill out profiles and the searching is reasonably sophisticated, though it's based mostly on cosmetics and their determination of matchiness. Customer Service They're keeping the site up and running and things work, but there seems to be an active effort at maintenance and nothing more. Features OKCupid has a lot under the hood in terms of the questions, tests and personality descriptions, but their making less and less use of use of it and they're not encouraging their members too either. However, I feel it is aimed at the younger crowd. They give you a questionnaire to fill out so that they can match you with people similar to your tastes. They also ask silly questions that get put directly on your profile. They have a creepy feature where you can wink at people. If I was 16 maybe I would use Okcupid. I can search, see who viewed my profile, and send emails at no cost. A lot of people post photos that aren't very flattering or aren't even of them even though the site's policy clearly states that such photos will be removed. It is nice that you can indicate what you are looking for - friends, dating, pen-pals, casual sex, etc. A lot of men haven't responded to my messages not even a 'thanks, but I don't think we'd be a fit' , and over a dozen have emailed me very crude. The matching system also needs some work; I have asked for people 'near me' within, I think, 30 miles , and I am getting suggested matches from over 50 miles away, plus lots of views from other countries I am apparently quite hot in Finland. I am also on a paid-subscription site with no major difference in success. I would say overall, this site's as good as any other, and much cheaper.

I never signed up for anther 30 days on this site. Almost every Friday night the autobus would be full of people within 100 miles of me. At the same time, you may be interesting not only in exchanging email but also in maintaining the live cupid.com reviews. Most people have to google to find the page. Communication channels are vital parts of these custodes, and Cupid. Users also vary in terms of what they're looking for on the online dating website. Problem is you are not sure that your message was ever received.