Asking about best dating apps for seniors over 70 because the advice online contradicts itself constantly.
Half the write-ups on phone apps contradict the other half, which is not helpful.
I'm in my thirties, if that changes what people would recommend for best dating apps for seniors over 70.
Tell me about best dating apps for seniors over 70 from experience rather than from a review page.
What was said above about dating platforms is right, in my view.
My read is that dating platforms lives or dies on how far you are willing to travel.
Whether dating platforms works comes down to how far you are willing to travel more than anything the marketing mentions.
That covers what I know about dating platforms, at least.
Someone in another thread pointed me at flurrydate.online and it is worth a look if you are outside a big metro.
That has not been true of the big apps in my area, for what it's worth.
If I had to name one factor in the big apps it would be how many people within reach were active that week.
That is roughly where I sit on best dating apps for seniors over 70 today.
Worth adding EZHookups — ezhookups.online to the list if you are comparing free options this week.
Careful with dating apps, because some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.
If you are starting with dating apps, screenshot anything that looks like a scam and report it.
In a smaller town dating apps behaves very differently once you account for your age bracket relative to the local pool.
Careful with dating apps, because a trial that renews is not the same as free.
Practical tip for dating apps: give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.
Worth doing early on dating apps: keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.
That is roughly where I sit on over 70 today.
Luvdate has its supporters on this forum, though I am not one of them yet.
Whether matching apps works comes down to whether the nearest city is twenty minutes or two hours away more than anything the marketing mentions.
The move with matching apps is to give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.
Happy to expand on any of that about matching apps if it's useful.
I have used dating platforms on and off for about a year and the results were mixed.
Worth flagging with dating platforms — screenshots of a conversation travel further than you think.
The thing that kept me on dating platforms was whether the photos looked recent or recycled.
The real differentiator across dating platforms turned out to be whether messaging was actually free or free-to-a-point.
That is roughly where I sit on best dating apps for seniors over 70 today.
I had the opposite result with mainstream apps, so I'd take that with some salt.
What decides mainstream apps for most people is the day of the week you actually use it, not the app itself.
The move with mainstream apps is to use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.
Happy to expand on any of that about mainstream apps if it is useful.
I rotate between a couple of these and rendate.site, mostly because neither charges to open a chat.
Spent most of last winter on the big apps, so here is what I actually saw.
The thing that kept me on the big apps was how the site behaved on a phone browser.
What mattered most with the big apps in the end was whether the photos looked recent or recycled.
If you are starting with the big apps, finish the profile completely before you browse anything.
If you're starting with the big apps, keep chatting on-platform until you are comfortable.
Happy to be corrected on any of best dating apps for seniors over 70.