AlternativeDateLink.com - Alternative Dating Link Site
AlternativeDateLink.com is a dating service centered less around the mainstream concepts of attractiveness and more on the appeal of the tattooed and pierced crowd. The main page asks for what you're seeking and what country you hail from – providing the information lets you know how many matches fit your description, and then takes you to the basic registration page. Here you input your desired username, password, email, etc, and your profile is ready to be filled out! If you're an existing member with any of the DateLink network of sites, your profile will automatically be ported over to AlternativeDateLink.com, saving you gobs of time.
If you're not an existing member with the DateLink network, creating a profile on AlternativeDateLink.com is easy and quick. Each profile is divided into four sections: About Me, My Narratives, About My Personality, and About My Match. The first section, About Me, asks for your standard slew of dating compatibility questions: age, astrological sign, location, hair and eye color, height and body type, language and ethnicity, as well as education, occupation, religious views, smoking and drinking habits, and whether you have and / or want kids. My Narratives, the second section, is two fill in boxes for how you describe yourself and how you describe your ideal match – a chance to let you use your own words to talk about what's important about you and to you.
The third section of each profile is the About My Personality section, and it's part of what makes AlternativeDateLink.com different from other sites – there's a lot of questions covering a variety of topics, like what the last movie you saw was, what celebrity you resemble, how you spend your free time, how you behave in certain social situations, pet likes and dislikes, as well as turn ons and turn offs. After filling that out you simply have to complete the About My Match section, which is a mirror of the About Me section, and you're ready to start using the site's search features to try and find your ideal match. You optionally can upload a photo of yourself, which makes your account 20x more likely to be viewed, but it's not required to start using the site.
There are lots of options for trying to find a partner on AlternativeDateLink.com. First off, you can search for members of the opposite or same sex, and there's also support for couples if you and yours are looking for some fun, or if you want to be the third wheel in a triangle of fun. The most simple search is simply looking up someone by username, but there's a lot more than that: quick searches just take in age and distance ranges, and you can limit output results based on whether the accounts have photos or not. Detailed searches allow you to comb through the profile settings of the “About Me” section to hand pick what traits you're looking for, while keyword searches scan through the headlines and narratives of other profiles for a search term you provide. Personality Searches are based on the About My Personality section of a profile and algorithmically try to identify people who have the most in common with you. Last but not least is the Two Way Match Search, which automatically goes through your profile and tries to match you with people who you'd be interested in and who would be interested in you.
To view profiles or initiate contact with other users, you need to be a paying member on the DateLink network. Doing so lets you access all of the above features on any of the DateLink family of sites, and also allows you to contact any of the members on any of the sites. This is a huge value especially for people who want to try out a few different scenes to try and find who best suits them. With this value and the amazing features presented by AlternativeDateLink.com, anyone who's looking for something outside of the mainstream but held to the same standards as the rest should give AlternativeDateLink.com a look-see.
