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Ok Cupid Free Dating Site Review

About.com Rating five out of Five

By Bonny Albo, About.com

OkCupid is a fun, interactive and highly entertaining dating site. Filled with features no other dating site offers, OkCupid is the best free dating site currently available.

Overview from OkCupid

"What is OkCupid? It's a totally free matching service. It's also extremely accurate, as long as (a) you're honest, and (b) you know what you want. We don't claim to evaluate you perfectly, but we do claim to find someone who claims to fulfill your claimed requirements, exactly."

"We aim to be the best matching service on every front: superior technology, better math, better psychology. And of course, it's free, unlike all the others."

What an OkCupid Membership Includes

Membership includes access to all of the OkCupid tools, quizzes and matching features after signing up - which takes no more than 30 seconds.

Other than the now-standard dating site fare (emails, instant messaging, photo galleries, journals, and search functions), OkCupid also offers its members a "QuickMatch" feature (instant matching), the ability to see exactly where you and someone else match up (i.e. you both are more literary than most people your age, or one of you is less adventurous), the option to have friends 'tag' your profile with recommendations, a list of similar users to yourself or others, and the ability (after answering a certain number of questions) to create questions for the rest of OkCupid to take and match other users with.

Unique Features of OkCupid

OkCupid has more unique features than any other dating site - free or otherwise - reviewed to date. Just some include:

  • A complex matching mechanism that allows its members to create quizzes and tests on thousands of different topics;
  • Matching based not just on dating potential, but also on a 'friend' or 'enemy' basis;
  • Integration with Facebook so that OkCupid users can place their entire profile, or answers to any of their dating quizzes on their Facebook page;
  • A "stalker" feature, which lets you see who has looked at your profile recently. The stalker option, unlike most dating sites, can be turned off at OkCupid as well;
  • There are either NO ads or extremely few ads on the site, unlike most free dating sites which are covered with ads;
  • The "FlagMod" feature (found under "Fun Stuff") which lets any user look at photos other users have deemed inappropriate and decide whether or not the photo should be removed.

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