Social networking site Facebook has become the number one place for all age groups to join a social network, but a proportionally large number of online singles in the USA make a common mistake of looking for their dating partner on these networks rather than the free dating sites.

Naturally, there is nothing wrong in trying your luck at different various places, but you may be wasting your valuable time in choosing the wrong medium. “How can one of the biggest social network be the wrong medium for finding other online singles”, you say. Here, I will attempt to answer your question with some examples.

Real life scenario – Online singles signup to free dating sites in the USA to find dating partners to go out on a date, spend quality time with each other and if they find they are a good match, they ultimately marry. The point here is that both of them are unknown to each other before and have first initiated the contact on one of the major free dating sites. However, on Facebook you cannot send messages to unknown persons and if you start sending friend request to anyone that takes your fancy, then your profile is at risk of getting banned for a few hours which can also lead to the profile termination. This is the biggest setback for online singles on Facebook. Although Facebook is a social network, their ultimate aim is to bring friends, relatives etc. together within a social group. You can ultimately make contacts through friends of friends and find singles that way, but there is no guarantee that they are single and looking. By the way, Facebook is an incredibly easy way for singles to share their Facebook ids without having to remember their complicated email or tel. nos.

On the other hand, free dating sites have been designed from the bottom up to promote online singles activity and there is no confusion at all for singles to contact each other. There is a high probability of finding suitable dates by sending unlimited messages and getting to know each other before you decide to go out.