Dating site recommendations?

[Daet]

I’m sort of dipping a toe in at my advanced age! I’m 55 and the only site I’ve tried so far is Match. It’s probably a reflection of my age but I’ve found it dire - so depressing! Does anyone have any suggestions or am I destined to die lonely?! Thank you,

So i bit and downloaded Hinge. What am I doing wrong? I have had 5 likes and 2 messages from boys who look about 20, not comfortable with that. And the suggested profiles for me to line are all around the same age. Is it some kind of spam?

Did you specify an age range awishes? I don’t know about Hinge in particular but Match seems to totally disregard age and distance limits sometimes.

I found Match dire, lots of scammers, they all seem to read
from the same script once they get your email addy and lots of the men appear desperate to punch above their weight as pp found too.

I tried a few sites, Freedating was quite a good one, I found the men genuine and easy to chat to.
I met my partner on Badoo though and of them all I found it really quite genuine and the men easy to chat with..

Though one man's in depth description of his operation including pics of his black and blue arse is burnished in to my retinas for eternity.

I'm having a funny conversation with a guy on OK cupid. We don't know anything about each other, all we message about is Thin lizzy songs and albums we rate them and discuss the merits of each song and album. It tickles me cos it's so inane!

Was supposed to go for a coffee with the leftover from match . He cancelled last week as was sick. Today he said his meeting was running late 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Its a no for me

Hinge doesn't seem to let you set any preferences without paying!

Online dating does work. My friend met the love of her life on Tinder - they now have a baby. My other friend met her long term partner (and now two children) on POF. My other friend met her long term partner on a Veggie dating site, and one child. A friend of a friend met her husband - who is a doctor - on Guardian Soulmates, and they are very happy. Another friend of a friend met her husband on Match, and they are a match made in Heaven! Isn't life wonderful!

@ojojoj1 you're absolutely correct: men would fuck a ham sandwich. A (female) friend of mine got married to a (male) gym addict despite the fact her nipples were at the same level as her knees (she's obese through greed issues), and I always wondered how a body obsessed man could marry that. He did have multiple affairs and now they have just divorced. So yes, ham sandwich is the answer to my bewilderment!

I bit the bullet and signed up to Bumble. Have had about 250 likes, out of which I’ve liked perhaps 10 back. Have started convos with those 10. No idea why half of them bothered because they’re plainly not interested as shown by their very brief answers which require no further answers from me!

And despite setting my distance limits to 15 miles, loads of them are up to 100 miles away. I messaged Bumble asking why, and got a response saying something like after popular demand the beeline was no longer restricted by distance, which means I will no longer miss out on bees who have matched with me but who may have moved location! Makes no sense!

I feel like giving up! Logically I know there must be some good decent men out there, logically I know I’m not that bad a prospect! But logic is fast deserting me!

AND ordinarily I would take comfort from my dog, but even he has betrayed me and has tonight peed on my bed!

@daet, I feel the same as you, did I mention that my first evening on Match resulted in a message from a nearly 80 year old!

Yes you did awishes, soul destroying! Unless you’re 90 and you’ve got a potential toyboy!

What do you all do in this situation? A few promising looking men have matched me back on Bumble. Their profiles are brief so nothing to go on in terms of an interesting opener from me. I lead with variations on the boring but inoffensive “Hello, thank you for matching back. How are you?” They reply with “Hello” or “Hey” or “Hi”. And then what?’ It’s frustrating because they’re interested enough to match back and reply, but not interested enough to give me an in!

Hello ladies! Daet! That’s a lot of likes! Well done I’m impressed! Some conversations are really awkward aren’t they? Like pulling teeth. Awishes, I had an 81 year old like my profile despite my age range 40/55! Makes no sense. We need to keep going girls. 😀😀

The responses you are getting are similar to ones I have had in the past which used to make me think that they were some kind of spam, surely men wouldn't think that's a reasonable response?!!!

Did you have your date last night redland? Pulling teeth about sums it up!

I suppose awishes that they just can’t be bothered but then why bother matching or replying at all?!

Hello! Omg! YES Had a very nice evening 😉Have one on Wednesday too! Exciting!

Oh well done redland you’re doing so well. Is it the same person you’ve been seeing or different each time?

Different each time!

Ladies I have signed up to hinge

Chatted to a man for 2 days when he said he owns weight management company .i thought fuck here we come it will be bullying bulshit about my weight but no dear ladies he wanted to complement me and than the convo went into weird ground which I refused to engage so he got very angry told me he is looking for a relation but not me he just want to fuck mr and I just wasted his time 😊😊😊😊😊

Now for one nighter he was well not worth it

And this is classic example of gaslighting by one of the pricks . Oh he also told me that he works where I live and he saw me . Unless he pushes trolleys in local asda there is a slim chance of such encounter 🤣🤣🤣🤣

No! Omg what a tosser! Sorry about that. Well rid

Red I laughed about it really .Next 🤣🤣🤣🤣