Free Dating Sites Review – connectingsingles.com
Having done a number of reviews of free dating sites, I found another site which seemed to have a good set of dating features, connectingsingles.com.
Connecting singles at first sight looks to be overcrowded with many options and features on the home page. This sit is a 100% free dating site.
This site has too many things gong on the home page and quite honestly I was a little bit lost and confused where to go and how things fell together.
Look and Feel
Home page of the website is very basic crowded as mentioned earlier and it is categorized with different sections eg. top menus, videos, blogs, free-e-card and many more.
Features offered include reading blog, searching profile, reading forum, playing online games all available without login. But if you want to post a comment or want to contact that profile you need to register.
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Registration Process
Like they specify that registration is a 60 second process, I found this to be exactly that after I registered on the site. Registration process starts with questions like username, password, email, basic personality questions about you and the kind of matches you want. This is very much part and parcel of all online dating sites.
Once you are finished with this, you are ready to go to the next steps. However, one would expect all the features to be available after you register, but the messaging section is not available as I will explain later.
Logging & Customizing Profiles
Again logging into your profile like other dating sites, you see your profile with photo and profiles matched as well as the forum blog and video.
In the video section you can find videos recently posted and most viewed.
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Customizing your profile comes up with a wide range of options you can choose from; editing profile, editing link to your photo’s comment, setting privacy options like blocking email and IM chats.
You can create the block list of whose members messages you do not want. You can always hide and show your profile to others.
You can edit email address what you typed while creating profile and you can create an ecard.
Photo Profile Section
Uploading photos is relatively straightforward, but you can upload only 8 photos on the site. While uploading photos you can turn on and off the photo rating and adding comment to it while uploading the photo. Uploaded photo is visible and gets approved in real time basis.
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Browse & Search Feature
As I mentioned earlier, the website has very crowded menus and naturally had a hard time moving around the site as I couldn’t find the options easily. However, all the menus are at the top and performance of the site while navigating around the site was quite good.
Search menus are placed at the top of the site as a “Search” icon and comes with many options which are not seen in other dating sites. Search options include searches like basic, advanced, last search, saved search, quick search, username search and last but not the least an astrology search. People with have a passion for astrology will find the last item useful.
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Messaging
Well messaging appears to look good, I found it to be the weakest part of the site. You can send a person a wink. flower, email, invite them into a group, write testimonials but you need to wait a day before anything gets approved.
Unfortunately, this means that after you contact a profile, you will not get a response for at least 1 day. You can add a friend/ commenting on photo is on form when you login for first time.
Other features
This site is stuffed with so many other features, that you can quite easily get lost in this website.
