As we have said all along that online dating site are the best places to find and meet singles in the United States. This time we explore another free dating site called dating72.com…

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Registration Process

Unlike most of the other dating sites I have reviewed, this website doesn’t claim to have a a fast and easy registration process. However, registration is a single step process where user can answer basic question like email, password, hobbies, body type. and you become an instant member.

You can also upload a photo simultaneously on this page with a “captcha” verification.
This is one of rare websites that doesn’t require a second confirmation of email to become an active member. Once the registration was complete, I was ready to search for my date. Remember, you need to be 18 years or older to register to this site which is the norm for all dating sites.

Logging & Customizing Profiles

Login to the site is via username and password where two rows of menu items appear at the top once you are in.

The first row of menu items is the main pathways to the whole site and the menu below this is specific to my profile.  Clearly, a well thought out navigational pathways.

Customization of the profile section is divided into accounts, notification and privacy.
In the accounts section a user can change password, email address, time zone and language. You can turn on/off the rating of your profile to other members.

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Currently there is only one web template available to customize the theme of your profile. This suggests that there maybe more templates in the pipeline.

Photo Profile Section

One photo upload is permitted during the registration process but once registered you can add more photos and organize them into an album.

At time of writing I could not upload many of my pictures and gave up after spending some time. This problem will likely to affect other users and being a good citizen, reported the problem to the webmaster of the dating site.

Browse & Search Feature

Browsing through the website was quick as all the menus were clearly categorized into website and profile menu options.

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The search is evenly categorized into basic and advanced search. Basic search is done with options like who you are, whom you want to meet by age limit, country, distance, zip code.

You can save the basic search for future use. What I found good also is that you can save the result that you obtained through the search. These results can be seen in the “saved search” tab. You can run the saved search any time you want.

In Advanced search you can specify the lifestyle of the person including habits. Similar to the Basic search you can also save the result. Results of the search are also to my liking but while searching you cannot search profiles more that 99 miles which I found odd.

Messaging

Messaging section of the site I found to be very good. This dating website has most of the communication options available for an expected system such as email/IM/sending gifts/sending gestures.

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You can set your IM to visible or invisible. This is a feature of a true IM chat application and it usage reminds me of the IM in facebook. All in all a very nice and complete messaging feature capable of competing with any other dating sites.

Other features

This site has features like blog/news, however other features like uploading videos/MP3  are not available.??I can see/hear the video/mp3 from other users and me??
I fond another feature that I liked which is the rating picture where I am able to rate a random selections of photos in my leisure time.

Member Base

Website appears to have a good member base with most of the users are from USA and Canada. Most of the members are active that helps me to filter out potential contacts fairly easily. This site has member base ranging from 18 to 50, where majority of members are in there 20’s.

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