A Review for SilverSingles.com: How Older Adults can Find Love
Overview
SilverSingles is a dating site amongst a myriad of other dating sites competing for essentially the same thing, trying to convince people that it is the best service in getting dates for their clients. It operates on the need for people to find some sort of relationship online. However, unlike other dating sites, SilverSingles fulfills this need for a select audience, mainly those above the age of 50. Given this select audience, the site operates on much more centralized criteria, where the audience, a little more than 800,000 at current viewing, have very similar experiences and perceptions.
The dating experience for SilverSingles is thus more developed than other sites that have a user-base of millions, all of which can come from a near-infinite amount of backgrounds, making matching sub hazard at best. Matching for this site has a more guaranteed experience, given its comparably lower user-base as a result. Matching is also more streamlined than other sites as SilverSingles makes the process thorough, but as least complicated as possible. The site handles the matches itself, giving a handful of matches a day that a user can easily go through to see if there are any that draw their interest. The site tries not to overload the user, given the age of the audience where systems of sites like Tinder or other dating sites handling millions of matches with hundreds going through a typical user’s profile at any given point are not the sites that typically draw the culture older adults past the age of 50 go for with their life.
Signing Up
Signing up for SilverSingles.com is a fairly extensive process as the matching algorithm used by the system centers on even the most minute of details. The whole signup procedure takes between 15-20 minutes depending on how detailed the user wants to be, and can only be done from a desktop computer. It does not allow for mobile registration from its app. The process starts off fairly standard for all online services, requiring a username and password, as well as the user’s gender and preference of genders for matches. The site recommends the username be the user’s actual first name as this establishes a truly personal relationship from the start, something SilverSingles concentrates its efforts on doing. The site also requires an email address as well as the agreement to its terms and conditions and privacy policy, fairly standard points of operation during any registration.
What SilverSingles does, and prides itself on, that is different during the signup process for its site is its extensive personality test. This is a mandatory survey done after the first stage of registration has been completed. This personality test is the bulk of the registration process, taking about 15 minutes to complete, asking over 100 questions regarding various points of the user’s personality to adapt its matching program best. This test is followed up by 7 more questions dedicated to forming a profile from which the answers to the questions will be publicly displayed. The user can see the results of the personality test from their profile. Once the test is done, the user can then add a photo to their profile and begin their search for a match.
