Great for Singles Looking for:
- friendship
- casual dating
- intimate encounters
Dating Site Key Features
- Over 5 million active singles
- Fast and easy sign-up
- Separate sections to search, based on your interests (dating, romance, or intimate)
- Many free features such as sending a smile or receiving an email from a paying user.
Match Compatibility
Lavalife provides an excellent framework for meeting new people, leaving behind the in-depth compatibility engines used by other sites and focusing on the site’s main goal—meeting people! Users can select any number of the three dating options—casual dating, romance, or intimate encounters, and create separate profiles for each category.
This is a great option for those who may want a serious relationship, but also be looking to have some fun while waiting for Mr. Right. Singles can fill out a profile in search of their ideal qualities for a long-term partner on their romance profile, and also seek out their fantasy fling with a rockstar through their dating profile.
After completing their profile, users are free to browse the profiles of other users, and can narrow their searches based on demographics, height, religion, availability of a photo, or other criteria. Membership is required to email or instant message other users, however you can always send a smile, receive instant messages and receive or respond to email for free.
Other special features offered are the Lavalife Parties and online Speed Dates. Lavalife parties happen at scheduled times throughout the day when members can gather and check out each others photos and participate in live chats. Online speed dates give members a chance to meet 10 new people, spending three minutes with each, providing a great venue for getting to know many people quickly.
Communication
Getting started on Lavalife begins with a simple sign-up process so members can get started communicating as quickly as possible. Through the free membership users can create profiles to be viewed by other users, send smiles, and respond to emails sent by other members.
Paid members also have the privilege of initiating communication, attending online “parties” or speed dating and exchanging instant messages.
Emails are sent and received through a user’s Lavalife mailbox which has separate tabs to help members differentiate between their dating profile, relationship profile, and intimate profile. All communication is handled within the site, ensuring members’ confidentiality.
Number of Singles on the Dating Site
Over 5 million registered users and a million messages being exchanged daily.
Ease of Use
This site is flashy, but easy to navigate. There is some vocabulary that will take some getting used to, such as searching for singles by ClickScore™ ratings, or Backstages, but the key features to get started meeting other users are easy to find and organized in a way that will be familiar to users who have tried other dating sites. We also found it refreshing that the site doesn’t pummel users with advertising and offers to pay for membership. The option is easily available, but never pushed.
Security and Privacy
As with most dating sites, Lavalife follows a strict privacy policy. The information collected on the site is searchable by a chosen pseudonym, so users do not have access to identifying information of other users. Additionally, users have an option to keep information “backstage” and only reveal it to those who have been given permission via a backstage pass. Cookies are stored with non-personally identifying information, for the purpose of improving Lavalife’s services. All financial information is encrypted through a secured system. Lavalife is a protected site and can be trusted with confidential information.
Free Trial / Specials
Lavalife was generous enough to set us up with a special promotion for our users to give the service a proper test drive:
Special Promotions
Cost of Dating Service Membership
Subscription packages allow for unlimited instant messages, emails and online speed dates.
Subscription Packages:
- $34.99 – 1 month
- $59.97 – 3 months ($19.99 / month)
Selected “Get Noticed” Options:
- $2.99 / month – Highlights your profile
- $2.99 / month – Become a featured user, and have your profile show at the top of search results
- $19.99 / month – VIP Service, all other benefits, plus all members can contact you free of cost.
Conclusion
Lavalife is a diverse site with a large dating pool which helps ensure that anyone can find the match they seek. The setup is quick and communication is very open, allowing users to create connections and meet up very quickly. The site also offers various dating guides to assist users in finding the relationship they seek and maintaining it. As all matches are found by users, rather than a programming algorithm making this site best for users who are confident in their abilities to weed out the occasional pest and identify their own diamonds in their midst.
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