DateTheUk.com - Uk Dating Service
Helping you find love in the grey and foggy United Kingdom , DatetheUK.com is “ UK 's Online Singles Meeting Place ”, and is a site with over three million members. The front page of the site lets you browse members and tour the site to become familiar with the people who use it, and you can sign up on the home page as well – just choose a username, put in your city or postal code, what gender you are and what gender you're interested in, your birthday, email address, and you can optionally be added to their international dating site, YouCanGetMe.com, and you can sign up for email notification about singles events.
After you get your email confirmation of account creation and password you're given an activation link to start using DateTheUK.com. Clicking it will prep your account for its first use, and you are then guided through basic account creation. The first page of your profile creation just asks for your name, both first and last, what city or postcode you reside in, and if you want, the number for your mobile (cell phone, for you Yanks). The ‘personal details' section is more concerned about your physical and social attributes. Traits like whether you smoke or drink, your opinion on children, what color hair you have, whether or not you wear glasses, and your religious and political views all fall under this subcategory.
There's a description section which lets you use your own words to describe yourself. It's just a series of three blank text boxes with prompts – the first is “a single line to get you noticed”, while the second is a description of yourself using keywords that you think might show up as relevant to you. The last is a repeat of the second with the slant that it's supposed to be a keyword description of the person you're interested in. Being honest and detailed in these areas will help fine tune your search results to better matches. The next part of your profile is your hobbies and the details of those, and is also a series of prompted text boxes, with questions ranging from the five items that you couldn't live without to the last good book you read. This is to help your potential matches become more familiar with your specific interests so that you can be sure that you're meeting people who you'll have something to talk about with.
The section of information for you profile is the lifestyle section. This section is a group of pulldown menus covering topics like your favorite magazines, television genres, food, and what you consider to be top entertainment. Once you've completed all of these pages, you simply upload a photo and you're good to go! You can start a search from the tab on the top of the main page and all you'll have to do is specify what gender, age range, interest, and marital status you're looking for, and the complex search algorithms will take care of the rest. You can also limit your search results to just profiles with photos, just online members, or members who've winked at you or that you've winked back at.
Browsing member profiles is free. If you want to contact the members of DateTheUK.com you'll need to make sure you have a full membership. The site offers two levels of commitment – gold and platinum. The former gives you a maximum of 50 mails and chat sessions per day, a maximum of 5 photos, and a 60 day retention on your emails. Platinum members have unlimited access to all the aforementioned features, with the exception of mail, which is kept for a year with the top tier membership.
DateTheUK.com is the number one singles' site in the United Kingdom for a reason – superior features, better members, and a great backend for the site to make sure it stays stable and constantly up are just the tip of the iceberg for what makes it so awesome. Create a free profile today and find a match!
