Is okcupid a good site

asked by King O. on 8/26/15

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Thumbnail of user shawnc252

It's good only if you absolutely feel the need to burn your money and time! Seriously speaking, don't repeat my mistake! I had wasted plenty of time and emotions there trying to find a gem among rubbish. Just go to a decent and efficient site with good reputation and you will have plenty of choice there as long as you are a normal and adequate person. I'm using
https://j4l.com/402007
And I'm content with it. I found several ladies that I really like, I had meetings with them and now its the time to choose for me!

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Thumbnail of user jeffr649

Fake profiles, hookers, catfish, and assorted looney tunes - call them what you will - as they're here in profusion. If you're happy picking through the trash, then dig in. For me, life is too short to waste on dispiriting experiences like this. Never again!

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Thumbnail of user michaelh139

Sure! If you want to wait til hell freezes over. You're better off getting more fat cats!:-)

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Thumbnail of user josephr55

Don't bother it's like any other dating site full fake profiles and requires you to pay to use any of the main services.

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Thumbnail of user matthewc3

Seem like the algorithms work well. And there's lots of people on the site. I can't really recommend spending too much time or money though because if anything goes wrong with the account - customer service is non-existent. Seriously - been over a month and I still haven't heard back from them.

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Thumbnail of user jennyp21

Only if you are a Troll

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Thumbnail of user katek61

I agree with Michael. In the two years I wasted on this site, I met four people willing to meet me face-to-face. I didn't see one of those people a second time. Two of them kept me hanging, saying they were "totally keen" to meet up a second time - six months later, they were still saying it without doing it. The third I didn't give six months because she kept making pathetic excuses as to why she couldn't see me, even though she "totally wanted to". And in case you were wondering, I'm a girl.

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Thumbnail of user adalb1

No, don't waste your time. They waste your time with questions to find good matches, but the matching is useless and their UI makes it difficult to actually meet people. They are more focused on getting people addicted to the site than actually meeting a partner, so that they upsell them A-listing services that don't work (and they don't send receipts for despite recurring billing). Try CMB instead if you are looking for someone.

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Thumbnail of user louiseh28

The only other site I used was Match.com, for just 3 months. I didn't like having to pay when I wasn't seeing anyone I wanted to date. It ended up the same way on OKCupid, but at least it was free:-)

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Thumbnail of user kristens12

It is every bit as good as any other dating site, which is to say that it requires a good amount of luck and you'll have to sort through a decent amount of mediocre or crappy messages and matches to find a few good ones. But the good ones definitely do exist there. I met my fiancee through the site about two months after I made my profile

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Thumbnail of user kevint47

At match you only get to LIST THERE for free. At okcupid basically most items come with free registration.

That said... MATCH OWNS OKC and has recently merged with tinder & has been talking with ashley madison.

I have been on okc several times. At times it can be really fun. At times it sucks and blows. I have made alot of real friends through there and if you start with that and just TALK TO PEOPLE...

Something more could result later. I can tell you though... their match formula is whack and you might see people on your selected match list that are say 20% / 70% enemy. Also people will pop up that highly match but are outside your specified age range or theirs.

Use it as a social page and that way its just a fun experience with occasional posibilities.

-k

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Thumbnail of user ronk

OKCupid excels at finding a good match, What sets Cupid aside as "effective", are more than 1k questions in categories e.g. Ethics, Lifestyle, Sex, etc. So, If you 1st find location (close to you), find persons you find attractive, then check answers in the areas offered, you can begin to filter out those who are opposite your tastes, and contact those who seem to be in-concert in most major aspects of life. If you're an Atheist, and the girl who seems great is devoutly religious, you might want to call that a dealbreaker... and move on. Finally, don't spend too many messages trying to know one another. If you both seem excited about connection, suggest you move to a phone conversation, and exchange numbers. In a phone conversation you'll likely get a much better feel if there's any magic there.

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Thumbnail of user toddm40

I believe that it is, quite simply, the best dating site out there! By far...! Answer as many questions as you can, as truthfully as you can, and then start talking to anybody with a high enough ( I go with 90%+) friendship and a low enough ( again I use 10% maximum as my threshold) enemy percentage, and go from there!

Remember, women on the site are actively looking for someone, too, it is just a matter of matching up your respective personalities and goals...

I met my current lover though OKC, sort of, only to find out that her primary relationship is with an old friend of mine, who I had lost touch with in the past couple of years... The algorithms are simply -that- good!

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