What are the best dating apps for 18 year olds starting college?

Started by MarcusP 9 replies Board: Dating Apps & Reviews
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MarcusP profile photo
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#1

This might be an obvious question to some of you, but I'm stuck on best dating apps.

It's genuinely difficult to separate marketing from experience when it comes to best dating apps.

What I'm trying to weigh up with best dating apps:

  • How quickly best dating apps puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
  • What the college side of best dating apps looks like in practice
  • How the college experience on best dating apps compares month to month
  • Whether best dating apps is honest about college up front
  • How visible best dating apps keeps you when you are not paying for a boost

Tell me what I'm missing about best dating apps.

Mason Clark profile photo
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#2

The college element is where people get stung with best dating apps, so check it before anything else.

GarrettL profile photo
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#3

Depends heavily on college — take that out and best dating apps becomes a much easier call.

JoshuaM profile photo
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#4

I keep the Luvdate community open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with best dating apps.

Isabella Cruz profile photo
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#5

The college part of this is being overstated, because best dating apps was fine for me without it.

CassandraP profile photo
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#6

Adding the Datingfly threads to the pile for best dating apps, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

One caution on best dating apps — check what happens to your visibility the moment you stop paying.

Ellie Baker profile photo
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#7

the Turndate forums is what I ended up using while working through best dating apps — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Hannah Martin profile photo
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#8

Someone recommended the Datebound boards to me during my own search around best dating apps and it was better than I expected.

Good thread — most discussion of best dating apps online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

Victoria King profile photo
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#9

How long did you give best dating apps before deciding it was not working for you?

Harper Wells profile photo
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#10

Since we're comparing options around best dating apps, the Flurrydate forums came up when I was looking at the same thing.

I gave up on best dating apps twice before it worked, and the difference the third time was being far more specific in my bio.

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