Joining more services

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Registered: 05-06-2006
Joining more services
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Sat, 07-15-2006 - 11:45pm

I've been on Match.com for about four months and I have two months to go. However, I seem to have gone through all the men who might interest me. By this I mean that between the guys who aren't interested and the guys that I'm not interested in, there aren't a lot left to meet. I am on e-Harmony, but they have matched me with very few people.

I'm trying to decide whether I should join another dating service (Yahoo? Friendfinder? American Singles?) I am not desperate, I just like to have a few dates.

Any ideas? Should I just wait until my Match membership expires?

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Registered: 05-30-2006
Mon, 07-17-2006 - 8:20am
within one week of signing up for match I also signed up for yahoo.... I am online so much that I quickly was able to search and pick out everyone i was interested in in a short amount of time. I've had better luck on yahoo i finally found someone who will talk to me at least... you may have better luck on another service too... its funny though sometimes you'll find some of the same people on both of them.
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Registered: 05-06-2006
Mon, 07-17-2006 - 10:54am

Yeah, there's a lot of overlap of people in the different services. I looked at Yahoo and Match and Friendfinders before I joined Match and had the feeling I liked the set up at Match better.

I am thinking right now that I will wait until my match membership runs out before I join any others. The "pickins" in the other services are not much better, and I just don't have the time for all this online dating every day.

Good luck with your search.

Elsa

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Registered: 06-17-2006
Mon, 07-17-2006 - 11:40pm

I, like you, am debating about the merits of joining another site. I am on match and eharmony. I don't know what in the heck eharmony uses to match me up with the men that they choose as my "matches". I also feel like I've looked at every profile within 300 miles of me on match, and I haven't found anybody that I'm interested in, except two fellows who have been inactive for over 3 weeks.

I also have seen lots of the same profiles on yahoo. I feel like I am wasting my time sometimes scrolling through page after page.

I often think that it would be helpful if single and available people wore some sort of badge to indicate their status. I always hear that women should be looking in the grocery store, the bookstore, the library, etc. for men. O.K. - I don't get it. How do you know if they've got a wife and kids at home when they are trying to pick out a watermelon?

Mary

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Registered: 05-06-2006
Wed, 07-19-2006 - 12:04am

Yeah, the big advantage of online dating is that we know that the other person is available for dating. And we really shouldn't complain because there aren't more men available. Without OLD we'd meet even fewer.

That being said, I am wondering if it's worth it. I too am on e-harmony and match. I have had some success with match but not with e-harmony. I thought perhaps I should join more dating sites, but I keep seeing many of the same faces. I think I will wait until my match membership ends.

Elsa