- Standard membership is free.
- Premium membership
- 1
Month $24.95
- 3
Months $54.75 ($18.25 per month)
- 12
Months $144.00 ($12.00 per month)
- Premium Plus membership
costs are the same as Premium at the time of writing.
- Please check the
site directly for the current offers.
- For Standard (free) members:
- Create your profile and
upload your pics.
- Perform searches for other
compatible members.
- Check the other members
profiles and photos.
- Add members to your address
book.
- Blocklist members you wish to ignore.
- Exchange
e-mails with Premium
Plus members.
- Access to Mutual Match,
let's you know who's interested in you and vice versa when both are in
agreement (feature is explained in the Editors Verdict).
- Notification
of who's seen your profile.
- For Premium members add these to the above list:
- Perform
advanced searches
- Send and receive unlimited
e-mails with other Premium members.
- Exchange
limited e-mails with Standard members.
- Access to Instant Messenger
- Access
the chat room
- Photo feedback stats
- Message
board access
- For Premium Plus members
add these to the above list:
- Highlighted
Profile
- Unlimited e-mail site-wide.
- A full search
facility is available, allowing members to search by:
- gender
- age range
- marital status
- attractiveness
- whether the member has pictures posted
- ethnicity
- smoking
- drinking
- drug use
- height
- eye
and hair color
- piercings /Tattoos
- body
type
- eating habits (vegetarian etc)
- religion
- political slant
- education
level
- income level
- Astrological
sign
Although Make Friends Online does
serve an international membership it focuses on the larger English-speaking nations: UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada,
and the US. We can see that its membership is concentrated
primarily in the UK, so we have included this site in the UK dating category, rather than the mainstream (international) online dating category. For UK-located prospects MakeFriendsOnline is ideal. For
those of you who are based outside the UK and are looking to meet someone in your geographical area, you would be wise to explore MakeFriendsOnline as a standard (free)
member to see whether or not there is a large enough 'pool' of prospects in your locale. For example, we fond eight out of
nearly a hundred listings near our Orlando, Florida location. Most of
the remainder was from far outside the metro Orlando area or hadn't
been on the site for more than two weeks (too long).
These listings would be too few to result in compatible prospects for someone in this geographical area. If your searches result in similar results, then we suggest that you check out some of the top ranking sites listed in our mainstream online dating reviews as they may have a larger database of members from your geographical area.
When you perform a search on MakeFriendsOnline, the listings you receive will contain:
- the type of membership the member has
- their age
- sexual orientation
- location
- a little bit about themselves
- last
log-in info
The photos are of excellent quality and enlarge
to a generous size when clicked. There is room here for many
photos. The profile and a lot of well organized sectioned
info is here for all to see. It's very comprehensive.
Rather than lumping it all together there are completely
separate sections for the profile, personal interests, personality and
an area called scruples (values). The design and structure
are just great. You can take it in portions or just dive into
all of it one by one.
Our
view is, as a free member it can't hurt to try out the features and see
what happens. Although the site's features say we can't
e-mail (except to Premium
Plus members) we were able to send off a half dozen
messages to different standard
members. We also could look over all the members' pictures
posted as enlargements - another big plus. Not only does the site have a number of great user-friendly features, it also has a Preferences
Menu that allows you a number of tailorings, for focusing on features
that are especially to your liking.
MakeFriendsOnline
has a unique, well conceived special feature here that's available for
all to use. It's called Mutual
Match. There are two ways to use it.
First, when you are viewing another members
profile / photo page you have the option of clicking a Mutual Match "yes /
no" button on the profile itself. If you like what
you see you may click "yes" or pass it up. The member
will get a notice that their profile has been checked (but no mention
of whether you clicked "yes" or passed). When they check the profile of
the person who has already seen theirs they will have the same "yes / no" choices. When both sides have clicked "yes" they are both
informed in an e-mail of their Mutual Match. If either side
passes there is nothing to report.
This is an
excellent example of what we mean when we say sites should strive to
provide "added value", "special useful features" and "ways
of getting the membership involved". MakeFriendsOnline have
scored a hat-trick here. This wonderfully simple feature hits on
all three major ways for enhancing members' experiences and success at
a dating website. It's an example of what great features can
do to stimulate interest and build an active membership. Perhaps
the biggest reason we're so excited about it is on account of it being available to standard and premium members
alike. We can foresee many standard
members
opting for a premium membership
here just because of this handy tool.
But wait,
there's more! The other way this dandy feature can be used
is as a profile sorting tool. If you select it as a menu option, you have the ability to go directly from profile to profile
through your search results. This is a great way to efficiently search a site and see how many
prospects have you in mind too! We can see this tool saving time for
members and getting the show on the road for those whose Mutual Match results
are numerous. This Mutual
Match tool is one of the best features we have seen
on any dating site. We can see it having the potential to raise the
bar for all dating sites who are smart enough to incorporate something
of this caliber into their site features.
This
site scores big points with us for making advanced features available to Standard members. Not everything is available, obviously, but
there's enough to get familiar with the
features available for various membership structures and learn if it's the place for you. We rated the site highly with respect to activity /involvement; contact options
(especially for Standard members); profiles and photo quality. If you are a UK resident you are in luck as this
site will serve you very well. If you reside outside the UK
you have to check the results carefully before committing yourself
here.
Membership number is our primary criteria for how
well a site will serve its members' interests. Remember that this site
has everything going for it if you're based in the UK but falls short if you live outside the UK and want to meet someone in your area.
Your best bet
is to try it as a free member to confirm its
suitability. Additionally, you may want to check our top rated UK Dating Sites to see if there are any other sites which might better suit your needs.
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