Best Free Online Dating Sites

When it comes to online dating, opinions are split.

Some people think it's a great way to meet new people, some even think it's a good way to make full relationships and keep them for a certain amount of time. Others, on the other hand, believe that online dating is a "waste of time" and do not want to have anything to do with it.

My personal thoughts are as follows: Online dating is a decent way to meet people, learn about people and share ideas, even start up relationships. However, i think that online dating is only best for starting a relationship, and that keeping it should be done in real life as soon as possible, otherwise, interests might go somewhere else, over time...

Online communication is a great way of communication, sure, you cannot spend 24/7 with someone, not even with the person you love, you still have to go to work, do things... internet makes it possible to communicate much much more than you can without it, however, as i said, you need to meet the person you're dreaming about in real life, just so you can be 100% sure that you want to go on with it. It would feel bad to get disappointed after 2+ years of thinking that you know somebody, and then find out the person is not at all like you imagined, or not even the person from the pictures... that does not limit the capability of meeting new people through the internet.

You can meet new people on any kind of site, even Hubpages. Through reading someones hubs or questions or answers or forum posts you can find out a little bit about how they think, what they are interested in, maybe even what they are like. However, we will be talking about sites specifically made for the purpose of online dating on this Hub.

Some years ago, people considered online dating to be abstract, strange, scary, or even impossible. Today, there are tens of thousands of Online Dating sites available. Even so, you will find that not all are of the greatest quality, and definitely not all are free.

Personally, i do not believe that events such as dating should be sold, because paying to meet a person... well, it just doesn't feel right for me, not sure about you. That is why we will only be describing free dating sites.

At the top of Google's search for the keywords that i have used which means that this site gets a lot of traffic. Lots of traffic means potential profit for the webmaster, however, it also likely means a lot of users in the database, lot of people to search from. When talking about dating sites, the bigger - the better, if managed correctly.

This site offers a completely free registration, and also claims that everything on it is completely free. You can customize your own profile, choosing preferred colors and designs. You have the ability to block people you don't want contacting you. The site claims that fake profiles get deleted.

Give them a visit at: http://www.datehookup.com/ and take a look yourself.

What draws you to this site at the first look is it's design. It's different from what you expect the standard dating site to be(usually pictures of users, lines of text saying how good this site is, etc).

On it's left side, the site shows some really good comments from "The Boston Globe", "About.com", "The Village Voice", and "TIME".

The site has a really nice, and a simple design. You will find that the whole registration system is simplified, and offers a method to "easily match yourself" with the right person. The registration is, of course(we are talking about free sites here) completely free.

At the time i was reviewing it, the site claimed to have over 40 thousand people online, which is pretty impressive.

The site was created by a team of 16 people, which for some internet websites is a large number(then again take a look at google and facebook).

There's no reason why you shouldn't check out this site if you're looking to hook up with someone, especially since this site claims it has members all over the world.

Visit it at: http://www.okcupid.com

Certainly has an interesting name, but that's not the only thing that this website offers. The website claims to have "20 000" new people every day, which might be a bit exaggerated, however, i'm sure there's still an impressive amount of people to meet on this website.

Registering on this website is completely free, but as you can see by reading the terms of usage, they do have some additional services which have to be paid for.

Pay them a visit at: http://www.plentyoffish.com/

Another dating website. It claims to be completely free which means that you do not need a credit card for any feature on this site. It claims to have no fakes and the ability to block any unwanted users from visiting your profile.

This is another high-user-number website not much different than those above, so if you want to give it a try, visit http://mingle2.com/

Probably not the best looking dating site, if we're discussing design(seems a little bit fast made on the design part), however, this site offers great functionality.

Not only do you get a completely free profile without any need for a credit card for any feature on this site, but you get interesting features such as:

• Chatting through the Instant Messenger
• Discussing subjects on their forum
• Sharing messages and photos with other members

The site claims to have been around for 9 years, which is, if you ask me, a very long time in internet years(internet is still relatively new).

Go ahead and check the site at: http://www.jumpdates.com/

There you go with Google's 5 first placed free online dating websites. Check some of them(or all) out, make a profile, start some conversations, meet new people, who knows... Maybe you'll find yourself having a life changing experience. I personally wish you the best of luck, as well as lots of fun.