Crowdsourcing this one: dating apps for 16 and 17 year olds is something I keep circling back to.
I would take one honest account of dating platforms over ten comparison tables.
So — what has actually worked for you with dating apps for 16 and 17 year olds? Honest answers welcome.
Can confirm the point above regarding dating apps.
If you are starting with dating apps, treat any request for card details as a reason to leave.
Anyone claiming dating apps works everywhere has not tested it against local population age spread.
My advice on dating apps: set your radius tight first and widen it only if it goes quiet.
Before you commit to dating apps, keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.
Happy to expand on any of that about dating apps if it's useful.
Someone in another thread pointed me at ezhookups.online and it is worth a look if you are outside a big metro.
Not sure that is right about the big apps, at least not everywhere.
The real differentiator across the big apps turned out to be whether the free tier let you see who liked you.
Interested to see what others say about year olds.
Careful with mainstream apps, because requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.
My advice on mainstream apps: treat any request for card details as a reason to leave.
The variable nobody controls for with mainstream apps is the time of year.
My read is that mainstream apps lives or dies on how many competing apps are active near you.
Anyone claiming mainstream apps works everywhere has not tested it against local population age spread.
Worth flagging with mainstream apps — the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.
Happy to be corrected on any of year olds.
Someone earlier recommended Flamedate and I ended up sticking with it longer than expected.
Whether app-based dating works comes down to whether the nearest city is twenty minutes or two hours away more than anything the marketing mentions.
My read is that app-based dating lives or dies on whether the nearest city is twenty minutes or two hours away.
Half the arguments about app-based dating would end if people mentioned how far you are willing to travel up front.
The thing that kept me on app-based dating was how easy it was to delete the account afterwards.
Not the last word on dating apps for 16 and 17 year olds by any means.
Spent most of last winter on the app question, so here is what I actually saw.
Two people can have opposite experiences of the app question purely because of how many competing apps are active near you.
My read is that the app question lives or dies on how far you are willing to travel.
What mattered most with the app question in the end was how many accounts looked dormant.
Others here will know more about dating apps for 16 and 17 year olds than I do.
I rotate between a couple of these and datebie.online, mostly because neither charges to open a chat.
Datewander has its supporters on this forum, though I am not one of them yet.