What are the best dating sites for over 40 that aren't just full of fake profiles?

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Elizabeth Day profile photo
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#1

Made an account specifically to ask this one — best dating sites for over 40 that aren't just full of fake profiles, and where people actually land on it.

The fake question keeps getting skipped in everything written about best dating sites.

So far I've tried the obvious route with best dating sites and got nowhere useful.

The short list of what I need from best dating sites:

  • What the fake side of best dating sites looks like in practice
  • Whether messaging on best dating sites works without handing over card details
  • Whether fake makes any material difference to best dating sites
  • How best dating sites handles fake compared with the bigger names
  • How the fake experience on best dating sites compares month to month

Particularly interested in the fake side of best dating sites if anyone has been there.

LoganS profile photo
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#2

It's telling how many replies here about best dating sites contradict each other — that's the honest state of it.

For me the fake side of best dating sites was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.

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#3

Half the disagreement in this thread about best dating sites is people using the same words for different goals.

Ethan Parker profile photo
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#4

Adding the Datebie boards to the pile for best dating sites, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

ZoeyA profile photo
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#5

For anyone else researching best dating sites, I would put Ezhookups on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

My best dating sites experience hinged on fake more than on the platform itself.

EthanP profile photo
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#6

Someone recommended the Datingfly threads to me during my own search around best dating sites and it was better than I expected.

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#7

Broadly with you on best dating sites, though I would weight moderation higher than you have here.

Respectfully, I think the framing of best dating sites sets people up to be disappointed.

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#8

If best dating sites is the question, the Datelink community is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

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