#1 · Thread starter
Crowdsourcing this one: zoosk app have a lot of fake profiles in is something I keep circling back to.
The reviews I have read on dating apps are either three years old or obviously paid.
Anyone who has dealt with zoosk app have a lot of fake profiles in recently, what would you do differently?
#2 · Member
Agreeing with the previous reply about matching apps, for the same reasons.
One thing I would do differently with matching apps — screenshot anything that looks like a scam and report it.
If you are starting with matching apps, assume the first three conversations will go nowhere.
That said, I would still hear other views on profiles in.
- Plenty of Fish — old-school but the user base is still large, as of this year
- Badoo — much larger abroad than at home, which genuinely surprised me
- Facebook Dating — no separate app to explain away
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That has not been true of the app question in my area, for what it is worth.
Ask if you want detail on any part of zoosk app have a lot of fake profiles in.
Someone earlier recommended Flurrydate and I ended up sticking with it longer than expected.
#4 · Member
Be aware when using dating apps that profiles that answer instantly and perfectly are usually not people.
Whether dating apps works comes down to local population age spread more than anything the marketing mentions.
With dating apps the thing that decided it for me was whether it worked without installing anything.
Be aware when using dating apps that a trial that renews is not the same as free.
The real differentiator across dating apps turned out to be how the moderation handled obvious spam.
Practical tip for dating apps: avoid syncing anything to your social accounts.
Take that as one data point on profiles in, not gospel.
#5 · Member
Two people can have opposite experiences of mainstream apps purely because of whether your region got the app early or late.
Practical tip for mainstream apps: use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.
Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of mainstream apps.
Someone in another thread pointed me at Datewander and it is worth a look if you are outside a big metro.
Not mentioning Datescout would be an oversight given how often it comes up.
#6 · Member
Been using dating platforms steadily since the spring and it has been fine.
I would not generalise about dating platforms without knowing how far you are willing to travel first.
What mattered most with dating platforms in the end was whether anyone replied inside the first week.
That is where I have landed on profiles in, at least for now.
Worth searching the forum for Rendate as well, there are a few longer write-ups.
#7 · Member
That has not been true of the big apps in my area, for what it is worth.
With the big apps the thing that decided it for me was whether messaging was actually free or free-to-a-point.
Before you commit to the big apps, give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.
That is where I have landed on profiles in, at least for now.
#8 · Member
I came to dating apps from the paid apps and the difference was noticeable.
Geography does most of the work with dating apps — the time of year matters more than the feature list.
Before you commit to dating apps, assume the first three conversations will go nowhere.
The move with dating apps is to keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.
Before you commit to dating apps, test it on a weekday evening, not a Sunday morning.
The part nobody mentions about dating apps is how the platform handled blocking and reporting.
That is roughly where I sit on profiles in today.
- Feeld — the community knows why it is there, based on about a month of use
- Facebook Dating — the account link puts some people off
- Zoosk — verification is the selling point
- OkCupid — the questions do real filtering work
The one that finally worked for me was Datelink — datelink.online, after about a month of trying others.