How does online dating agency sites work?

With most Online dating agency sites, you first register to become a member of that dating community. As a minimum this will consist of entering your name and contact details (e-mail address and so on). You then fill in further details about yourself such as height, hair colour, age, and so on. You will have the opportunity to write some free form text as an advert. In this free form section you can list items such as hobbies and interests, but more importantly you can say what kind of person you're looking for, as well as information about yourself. With this information other members can picture you in their minds; what you're like, whether they might get along with you, what type of things you could do together.

Once your details are entered, you will get a membership number and a password delivered to your registered e-mail address. This allows you to go back to your profile and change the details if you need to. It also allows you to logon and use the facilities provide on the site, whenever you want.

All dating agency sites should have some sort of search facility where you can select details about the kind of person you'd like to meet, and then the search facility automatically trawls through the database to find all those single people who match your criteria. The profile tells you many things about a person straight away. Things that it could take weeks of a more conventional dating agency to find out about someone. You can quickly screen out those profiles which don't fit your requirements, and other people can quickly screen you out if you don't fit theirs. No wasting time being disappointed with your date, no hurt feelings when you have to call it a day.

Once you have searched for a list of candidates, you can go view the profiles of those people. Other typical facilities offered by dating agency sites such as NewFriends4u.com, are inbuilt e-mail facilities where you can send e-mail to contacts using the sites internal e-mail system rather than revealing your own personal e-mail address, and chat facilities where you can type messages to people online who will respond there and then.

So, once you have placed your dating ad, (at NewFriends4U we offer the 4 categories where you can find not only dating but social friends, penfriends and sports partners) single people will begin viewing your profile. People will start contacting you (and you them). An important point to note about people who contact you, is that they have taken steps to join a dating agency site, and are taking their search for a relationship seriously. If you get a contact, you know that the person is interested in you (they will have read your profile) and that they are more serious about finding a partner than those people who just post an ad then sit back and wait for someone to contact them.

Now, of course the first contact could be just the start of a chain of communication, which can happen as often as you like. The first contact may also be nipped in the bud very quickly, if you don't want to pursue it. Taking rejection via an e-mail (or more likely a lack of response) is much easier to bear than it is face to face or even on the telephone. No more bruised feelings! If you maintain contact, you learn more and more about the person, and it may possibly turn into a pleasing online relationship. Eventually the day may come when you want to meet in person. When that time arrives, you already know many things about this person, and it will be a less stressful meeting, providing you're careful not to build up an image of the person which is impossible for them to live up to. It is common, when we don't have enough information, that we try logically deduce what should fit in the blanks. If you're Sherlock Holmes you'll get this right every time! The rest of us make false assumptions, and might then be disappointed with reality.

What makes online dating agency sites better than going to my local pub/bar/nightclub?

Many people ask why should they bother with online dating agency sites when they can just go down to their local pub, bar, or club? My first observation would be that if you're reading this there's a good chance that for whatever reason you've already decided that the pub/club scene is not for you, and do you know what? You're not alone! Many single people don't feel comfortable with trying to find new friends at traditional venues, so where else do they go? Well, since half the households in the UK (and probably in most of the 'western' world) now have computers and are online, there's a good chance they'll come to the same conclusion as you, and start thinking about online dating agency sites. Let me ask you some more questions:

How many people at your local pub are already in a relationship or married? Probably quite a few, unless you specifically pick a bar or club aimed at singles (and even then you never know who's there just for a 'naughty' night out!) How many people are at the pub or dance hall with their existing friends, just because they like drinking and dancing, with no intention of meeting anybody new? Again probably quite a few. So while you may be able to go to a nightclub or a rave with a couple of thousand revellers there, how many are actually eligible and available for a relationship?

With Online dating agency sites, you are no longer constrained by local geography, and the only limit is how many single people are on an agencies database. At NewFriends4u we have thousands of members and new members joining daily, so we have more and more new members coming online, from all over the UK, and Worldwide. So, if your perfect match lives halfway round the world (or even just 10 miles away), you stand more of a chance of meeting them online, than at your local pub!

Using online dating agency sites search facilities can save so much time when looking for a new partner, because the profiles give you a good clue as to whether to bother contacting people or not. Using a typical online dating agency search facility you can scan hundreds of members details very rapidly. Imagine how long it would take you to find out personal details of everyone down at the pub.