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Free Dating Sites Review – OkCupid.com - Part 2
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Logging & Customizing Profiles
After you login to this site for the first time, you need to answer some of the basic questions (similar to other free dating sites). The questions were very interesting and were unique and not common to previously reviewed sites.
Unlike a few other dating sites I have reviewed before, you are not able to customize your profile page with a different color combination and theme.
Photo Profile Section
Uploading your photo on the site comes with a neat option - you can upload from any site just by giving the address of that photo. I did this for one photo from Facebook.com but you have the option of uploading from your computer too.
Photo is easy uploaded and viewed right away with no need for approval from the webmaster or administrator of the website. However, the rule for uploading nudity still applies like all the other free dating sites. You are likely to be disbarred for uploading nudity.
Tags: Free Dating Site, okcupid
Free Dating Sites Review – OkCupid.com - Part 3
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Browse & Search Feature
Browsing through diffident menus and searching for profiles is intuitive and easy. I like the peppy and aero look of the search buttons and it is very easy use.
This site has the most impressive profile search result I have seen to date. It actually shows you how much you’re matched with the searched person. The results also show you how much they are replying to messages which is often or rarely. This can be a very useful feature for members who don’t want to waste time in messaging people who are inactive, which can be a problem in some dating sites.
You can read about the person’s trait, see photos, and see the personality test.
Well the feature compares the your matched persons personality based on the question that you answered while creating profile like- social, political and life style Other features like rating profile and picture are looks in tact.
Messaging
Messaging is again a feature of this site and all features like IM, email, quick message, saving notes, adding to favorite lost, sending winks need no improvement.
I loved the feature that I can award that person if I like that profile/match
Tags: Free Dating Site, okcupid
Free Dating Sites Review – OkCupid.com - Part 4
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Other Features
This is the section I like the most because it shows how the site is different from the other sites and where they are being innovative in providing the best service to their members.
With OkCupid.com you have the feature of creating your own personal quizzes. It reminds me of one of the first reviews I did of BookOfMatches.com.
Another feature that I liked on this site is once I click on a searched profile you are presented with “The Two of Us”. This is the series of questions which will help to find how much you are compatible with the other person. However, you need to be brutally honest with your answers. OkCupid offers iPhone and Android mobile apps. so that you can access your account information right from your mobile phone.
What’s Missing
Like most of the dating sites lack video upload, privacy options and customizing profile. Well for me privacy mean is who can contact me and who can see me. As user I do not have right to block users/mail from others or age more than I am looking for.
Tags: Free Dating Sites, okcupid.com
Free Dating Sites Review – OkCupid.com - Part 5
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Member Base
The site claims it has over a million member base but I am not really impressed with kind of people that are on here. Most of the member base is in their 20’s to 40’s and it shows that all are capable of good matches with me. Even the searched profile results shows that they are all well matched for me which means that I am compatible with 90% of the searched result which is highly doubtful.
Longetivity
I tried using this site for some time and have not yet got any responses from here, and I feel that most of the members are not active and which is why they are not responding.
It is possible that members who join the service like are just out there looking for frivolous fun and not for serious dating which is the real aim of this site.
Though they do have success stories on their site posted by the users.
Tags: Free Dating Site, okcupid
Free Dating Sites Review – OkCupid.com - Part 6
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Scores
| Ease of registration process | 3 |
| Look and feel of website | 3 |
| Available features | 2 |
| Profile creation & completeness | 2.5 |
| Matching System | 1 |
| Overall Rating | 2.3 |
Conclusion
OkCupid dating site has a simple and easy registration process, nice and peppy aero look, and good profile creation with nice array of questions. Uploading photos takes seconds and goes straight into your profile.
Site also has good messaging features and you can access your account from the iPhone and Android.
My only gripe is that I wasn’t very fond of the profile searching criteria. I was not able to understand that how so may profiles could all be ‘the best’ matches for me. You can try this on your own and let me know what you think.
There were no audio/video chat features available on the site, no option to upload photo and lacking in features that doesn’t add real value to the overall site.
I suggest you sign up to the site as it doesn’t take long and see what you make of it.
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