Registration Process

There are two registration processes that make signing up a breeze. You can signup in the traditional way of going through the registration process or you can login to your Facebook account and create a profile. It is just few simple steps and you are done. This is followed bay an email confirmation that you are registered.

Logging & Customizing Profiles

After you login by creating a new profile, first thing you notice is that it will take you through a series of basic questions of age/height/language and other stuff.
Even if you are not logged in by your facebook account, SpeedDate allows you to get your details synchronized with facebook so you can save time and focus on finding dates.

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When it comes to customizing your profile this site is definitely a winner from the past sites that I have reviewed.

The section can be categorized into two parts - profile and account settings. In the profile setting the user can tell about himself/herself like basic information about background, interest, lifestyle, appearances etc. You can also specify the kind of date you want and include a dating quiz which can make you profile look more comprehensive.

In the account setting, you can customize the account setting starting from a very basic feature from changing password to restricting email notification and setting profile to private or public. Some of the features ask you to upgrade you account.
You can configure the IM alerts or block users that you do not want to communicate with.

Photo Profile Section

Uploading photo is quick and easy with a completed upload showing up on your profile without waiting for a manual approval. It lacked any features of connecting other photo profiles from other sites such as facebook and other social accounts.

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If it was synchronized with my Facebook account, I would have been able to connect some of my photos with this account. The quality of the uploaded pictures looks good as my pictures on my computer and does not appear hampered by any compression.
Uploading photos were very fast and did not feel that you were uploading to a website. Users have the option of always switching any photo to be their primary photo.

Browse & Search Feature

Browsing through the website is easy with menu options nicely positioned and organized. At the top of the menu bar, there is an option where you can put you status to on and off.

They have a connection page, where you can see all the people connected to you. When doing a search the results came up relatively quickly. With ‘discover menu’ you can ask the site to search for you or you can search for yourself by specifying your search criteria.

Searching with SpeedDate allows you to search on all parts of United States and not just profiles local to you.

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The search profile come up with a photo and tabs showing other photos and about the kind of date he/she is looking for, including dating quiz and conversation you have with that person.

If you are on the basic account you can not find that who has winked at you as this will ask you to upgrade your account.

Other features

Like other online dating site, this site also has a featured blog. You can also read the success stories of other members. There are many facebook application you can use with this site such as features like “fan/like” the profile and also “don’t forget” to use tweeter connection. You can tweet that you are on SpeedDate and looking for singles.

One thing I found very exciting is that you can use this site from your android phone as well as the iPhone and iPad.

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