For relationships, Match. Older for Older For mature men looking for their peers, age matching is of the highest importance. Although it dos depend on users filling in their profile properly. So from the non-specialist sites we can only recommend Gaydar for it's age matching search. What to look for on a dating site.
Free Trial Most paid-for sites offer a free trial or low cost period which gives you an opportunity to find out if it offers what you are looking for. Automatic renewal Be aware that many of the big dating sites that require paid membership will renew membership automatically by billing your credit card.
You have to change your Account Profile to turn this "feature" off if you don't want to renew automatically. Age Matching An important feature, particularly for older people looking for partners, as it matches your age with the age requirements of advertisers. For example, if you are aged 70 and search for yo men you want to only see a list of those who may be interested in someone of your age and not the complete list. Profile Matching This facility matches your requirements with the requirements of the advertiser in a search, which enables you to restrict your results only to those who have all the features you want.
They often indicate the closeness of your match to them and vice versa. Filtered Email Updates Some sites allow you to receive updates to your search criteria by email with brief details and then you can connect to the site to see the complete profile but you often have to be a full member to be able to contact them.. Blocking Most sites have a blocking feature which enables you to block messages from unwanted admirers.
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Most of the better sites also hide the real email address of the individual and will forward emails to the advertiser. In addition, many will send an email notification that you have received a message. Security Avoid sites that expose your details on a basic web page with no search facility. Apart from making your details indexed by search engines, your email address can be picked up by spammers. If you don't have to fill in a profile form or a search form, generally we would suggest the site is insecure and should be avoided. Privacy If you are concerned that others may find your profile that you don't want to, see the SafeSurfing Guide for privacy advice and tips.
It has all the features that a good personal ad service must provide to get our highest recommendation. You can sign up for free, post your profile and search for potential matches within 5 minutes of registering. Their two-way matching service allows profile preferences to be matched in searches. They offer a completely anonymous system for contacting people you are interested in and a blocking feature to prevent those that you are not interested in from contacting you or even seeing your profile.
You don't have to be a Yahoo member to browse the ads, but you must join Yahoo to place an ad. A paid subscription is required to be able to contact other advertisers. Subscribers can use the enhanced ad features which allows up to 5 pictures and a more detailed description. Subscriber ads are placed at the top of the list when a search is done.
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Does not allow any adult content and the profiles are very detailed although I would say they are slanted towards heterosexuals e. Do you want children? Search criteria are also very detailed and they offer extensive age and profile matching. You can receive weekly or daily emails with profiles that match your criteria including thumbnail pics and if you have Yahoo Messenger, you can arrange to receive an alert when you receive a message in your personal mailbox. There is no profile matching facility although filtered regular emails are an option.
Profiles are free to upload but free access gives limited messaging, email and searching.
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Gold membership adds increased number of viewable profiles, messaging, emails saved, photo album, friends online notification, thumbnails online listing, filtered email. Platinum membership adds all Gold features plus unlimited viewable profiles, unlimited and emails, save messages, add photos to your photo album for other Platinum members, 24 hour message history. Searches have an Age Filter to match age requirements, even at basic membership level, but the results are shown as a list without thumbnail photos, making searching through the list a question of clicking on each one which can be laborious.
Thumbnails Online offered with Gold or Platinum membership does allow you to apply your search criteria and see thumbnail photos of those online who meet it and you can then send an online message. However, the site is now part of the TangoWire network so while the database may be larger the search facilities are fewer. Free to post a profile and free to use all database searches and view unlimited profiles and all members pictures. It's free to message unlimited guys too.
If you contribute money or refer new members you receive preferential placement in the search results and other benefits. Although their Free Membership allows you to post a profile you can only respond to advertisers more than once every 24hrs if you take out a membership. Silver membership allows you to view photos, send unlimited emails and gives enhanced searching facilities.
Gold provides premium listing of your ad, filtered email, priority ad listings and top search facilities. No profile matching. It is part of the Planetoutpartners Inc group which includes gay. Only paid subscribers to PersonalsPlus can save searches and reply to members who show up in their ad searches. Searching ads is also free and can be restricted by location, age, keyword and photo, although there is no age matching. Searching ads is also free and can be restricted by location, age, keyword and photo, including age matching. Additional content includes pictorials, stories, forum, chat, and a mailing list that allows pictures.
Also has galleries and "daddy videos" on DVD. Search allows age matching.
Promises new interface soon. Galleries are also free and images are taken from those uploaded to profiles and from the internet. Video content requires subscription to access. Standard Members register for free and may create a personal profile. They can receive unlimited mail from other members, but can only send two emails a day. The gallery is only made up of images of members so there is no original content. Difficult to assess how many contacts there are due to the search system but does have some older contacts. Currently free and with members. Provides chat, video sharing, forum, groups and more.
Pornography or images of sexual acts, nudity intended to sexually arouse the viewer and graphic photos or videos are NOT permitted. Based on the Ning network which means your ID can be shared with other Ning networks. Ads include detailed profiling information and photos but you have to subscribe to the site to contact other users.
The site has email notification of messages and allows online chat including a favourites list.
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Proximity searching. No age matching. NiceDaddies Dating site with extensive facilites and Also includes hot or not photo rating, and public and private photo galleries. Search facilty called Browse allows fairly simple search proximity to location in USA and travel itineraries. Date matching rates your match to the advertisers requirements and vice versa. Search called Browse is fairly simple even in advanced Extended search mode with no proximity search or age matching.
As it seems to use an off-the-shelf dating script there are some references to females too. Premium service offers better search, access to xxx pics, video clips, and video chat amongst other features. In addition to execellent dating advice, it offers suggestions for music for older and younger, places to visit, movies and articles from members. Premium membership offers unlimited membership, more profile pics, gallery listing, gallery contacts.
Profiles are free to place include detailed profiling information and photos. Basic membership only allows you to send two messages per day. Additional features include separate galleries of seniors and admirers, videos and live chat. Premium Features include the ability to allow only those who meet your criteria to contact you as well as unlimited messages, unrestricted webcam chat and ability to view profile gallieries and videos.
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Search criteria is extensive including age, height, weight and location as well as the availability of a photo, profile text or video clip. Travelers feature enables you to add your details to locations you are traveling to for up to a month and to have your profile show up in searches in that location. XXX-Seniors Combined Blog and free Dating Site "designed from seniors for seniors and their admirers" The dating service uses an off-the-shelf script with a little modification so it's still rather hetero-orientated and the design is not very senior-friendly.
The dating site is rather difficult to find and consequently there are few contacts yet. Does not allow overtly sexual content and age matching is included as standard. This site also appears to be one of those which generates enticement messages to non-subscribers. Check any messages to make sure they are relevant to your profile before you join to reply. Probably the best bet for mature men looking for mature partners.