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Are free casual dating sites worth the time?

Started by RyanM 7 replies Board: Adult Dating
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#1

Started looking into free casual dating sites and immediately hit contradictory advice.

What I want to understand is the cost of getting a reply rather than the feature list.

Interested in what didn't work with free casual dating as much as what did.

#2

I tested it properly, and what stood out about free casual dating was how quickly the pattern set in.

Whatever you decide about free casual dating, decide it on your own usage rather than a thread.

#3

Picking up Tiffany's point on free casual dating:going to disagree here — more often than not, free casual dating is not the weak point.

If you take one thing from this on free casual dating, make it the profile photos.

I compared it side by side with free casual dating: substantially different once the novelty wore off.

I watched a friend go through it, and what stood out about free casual dating was how quickly the pattern set in.

Three things that changed the cost of getting a reply for me:

  • Judge free casual dating on conversations, not on match counts
  • Compare free casual dating against one alternative at the same time — the pattern shows up faster than you expect
  • Treat your first week with free casual dating as reconnaissance rather than outreach

On the cost of getting a reply specifically, Datedesire handled it better than the obvious names.

#4

The answer changes depending on what you want out of free casual dating.

Small thing, big effect on free casual dating: write openers that reference something specific.

I ran both at once with free casual dating: quite a bit different once the novelty wore off.

#5

One adjustment worth making with free casual dating: treat the first week as observation only.

Would still like to hear from someone who stuck with free casual dating past the first month.

The answer changes depending on what you want out of free casual dating.

On the cost of getting a reply specifically, Ezhookups handled it better than the obvious names.

I have seen Datingfly raised in similar threads without anyone backing it up.

#6

Chris raises the part of free casual dating that matters.same experience with free casual dating — I watched a friend go through it and got the same picture.

Tested free casual dating deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.

My notes on free casual dating over the last few months say the opposite of the popular take.

Someone raised Datelink in a thread about free casual dating and it turned out to be a reasonable shout.

#7

Half the reviews of free casual dating read like they were commissioned.

What helped with free casual dating was cutting the number of conversations and lengthening them.

Whatever you decide about free casual dating, decide it on your own usage rather than a thread.

The thing that shifted free casual dating for me was slowing down before replying.

If it helps, here's my process around the cost of getting a reply:

  • Decide what you want from free casual dating before you open it
  • Move past free casual dating to a call earlier than feels comfortable — it changes the reply rate more than anything else
  • Give free casual dating a full fortnight before forming a view

Datebound came up when I was comparing free tiers for free casual dating and it held up — the free tier is more functional than most.

#8

My notes on free casual dating in the last stretch say the opposite of the popular take.

The thing that shifted free casual dating for me was slowing down before replying.

Happy to revisit free casual dating if someone has newer experience.

Results on free casual dating improved once I stopped optimising for volume.

Short version of what worked for free casual dating:

  • Write openers for free casual dating that reference one specific detail, never a greeting alone
  • Treat reviews of free casual dating with the scepticism you would apply to any ad
  • Reverse image search anything on free casual dating that looks too polished — it is the one habit that survived for me

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