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Top 6 Online Dating Service Vexations And Remedies

The internet dating industry has become highly competitive with more and more users logging on to various dating websites in the hope of finding their ideal partners. Yet, it is surprising to find that even now, a lot of online dating services use annoying tactics for account usage.

What online dating sites are guilty of!

With so many online dating services available these days, it is not hard for users to switch from one site to another if the service providers are using unfriendly tactics for account usage. Some of the top annoyances that these dating services are guilty of are as below:

1) Online dating services that require you to upgrade to gold membership in order to speak with gold members.

A majority of the online dating services make users believe that they can communicate with any member category once they sign up. However, in most cases this is not true as it requires you to upgrade to a paid membership to get in touch with paid members. This process is rather unfair as we discover this much later. It should be mentioned before-hand so members can make informed decisions about registering on the website.

2) Online dating service that takes quite long for Picture and Profile approvals.

One other problem that users face when they register on the dating service website is that they cannot begin to use it immediately if the website has a policy to approve profiles prior to allowing a user to use the account. This is rather annoying as a member expects to use the account immediately upon signing up. With so many people registering online, it is difficult to approve at a quicker pace. However, if automated to a certain extent, this process can be accelerated.

3) Cannot disable the option of instant messaging.

Most online dating services do not allow users to deactivate the option of internal messaging or instant messaging. This option should be left to the user so as to avoid unwanted messaging or instant alerts while you are going about your task on the site.

4) Inability to “deactivate” or "suspend" online dating account.

Many online dating service websites do not allow users to deactivate or suspend their account when they do not wish to date or if they want to take a break or if they are already serious about someone. This is quite annoying as you keep receiving unwanted messages and emails when you no longer seek them. Dating services should provide this option to users and also allow them to reactivate the account at will for certain duration after deactivation.

5) Banning the use of special characters on dating websites

Special characters like apostrophes and commas are an important part of language. However, we notice that while signing up or writing our profile, some online dating service websites do not allow that. This is really frustrating as there is no logic to the denial and you are required to keep correcting mistakes before the site accepts your profile.

6) Picture dimensions and types.

A couple on online dating service websites, for sake of uniformity or space constraint, ask users to edit their pictures to a certain dimension or size before allowing them to be uploaded. This is highly inconvenient and annoying as not everyone knows how to use picture edit tools not everyone has them. Moreover, doing so yourself affects the quality of the picture. If the websites allow the picture to be resized automatically, that would really resolve the issue at the bud.

posted by pagmanny @ 1:24 AM