Saturday, March 6, 2010

Free or Paid Dating Site? Which One is Preferrable?

Because of the the growing numbers of interracial relationship, dating websites are also growing in numbers as well, in terms of competition. So,  if you are looking for a partner online, which one would you choose? A free dating website that wouldn't cost you any or a paid membership one that charges you monthly or whatever their membership packages are? Anyways, this topic interests me a lot because I used to be a member of a couple of dating websites before until I found my husband. Well, it seems to be easier for girls though because there's a lot of even paid dating websites nowadays that don't ask girls to pay, just men.

But then, here comes free dating websites. They don't really rely on membership fees since they have none but,  they actually do it and still making money through advertisements. The thing is, free dating websites nowadays is just like a crib of scammers. Well, I'm sure paid dating websites also have a few scammers here and there but at least, they have this security thing that comes with their package that deletes or marks an account as a spam. At the same time, with paid dating websites, the members especially men who paid for it are usually serious about finding their partners and not just there because they wanna play games with girls online because for sure, they don't wanna waste paying their money on an online dating service if they're not serious about it or, who knows?. There's a lot of men online like that. They come online and chat with girls and then ask them to do something for them in return of whatever their offer is which is for me is a scam. I am not saying that men are the only scammers. Girls do it too but really, nobody's gonna scam you if you don't allow them to. So, it just really depends on a certain individual online if they let themselves be a victim of such people.

On the other hand, I wonder how these businesses, free versus paid dating website keep up with the competition. Because, some people are willing to pay and some are not and, with the economy right now, I'm sure a lot of these men sign up on the free ones.