Okcupid
Okcupid is 14 years old online dating site that is specifically designed by Chris Coyne, Sam Yagan, Christian Rudder and Max Krohn on 19th January, 2004 with an idea to use social networking platform to find out the perfect match member featuring multiple choice questions. The site is working under IAC’s Match.com division since 2011.
How it got started?
The real credit goes to four students at Harvard University who firstly led to the creation of TheSpark.com including quizzes and personality tests. The popularity rose and they decided to launch the site under domain OkCupid. The company was later acquired by InterActiveCorp in 2011 and is now working best in dating business around the world.
Why is it popular?
The site hit the trend of dating with its 3 principles; being always free to add, love of math and welcome to everyone. The service is free but it charges out for some additional features on its first principle. On the next option, they go for good math calculation to help you out get the right match and connecting faster. They don’t have rules in the third option that means your past doesn’t matter just they care about is your relationship of your dreams.
They add on the best features to make your job easy and one thing that attracts the user is that it is free of cost and has no bar on gender identity. It is among the first movers to offer unlimited messaging free of charge which got limited in year 2017. Options on gender classifications like asexual, pansexual, genderfluid, sapiosexual and transgender has made the website more exclusive with high tide in its popularity.
How to use it?
OkCupid is active with over 3.5 million users and regular visitors. To go for the site one just has to make a sign up and make profile answering some questions and getting prepared to roll with some pretty unseemly punches. Online dating is a tough business as various sites are available but this sounds promising as daters found out the safety in OkCupid number games. After sign up and uploading your profile pictures they put you on series of questions from list of tens of thousands. They help you figure out the picture in which you fit best and perform the algorithm on their part to find out the best match.
Is it safe to use?
We know it is a free service and thus has attracted many spammers and scammers and people looking for casual sex. The last one said has offered a big trouble for women which leads to an instant red flag as some messages are absolutely astonishing. We can’t judge the whole matter on above experience because there are many good people around on the site that have managed to get their partner and are happy.
In the end, it is a bigger dating site that works well but one should be willing to sort a lot of wheat from chaff.