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Site Review: Zoosk

11 January 2009 2,349 views No Comment

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Maybe you’ve heard of Zoosk but maybe you haven’t. Either way, this website has quite the following of over 10 million members. With numbers likes that, you need only know simple mathematics to assume the rate at which you might be matched to local singles nearby.

As soon as you are directed to this site, you are greeted with a colorful, cartoon-y, and happy looking site. The imagery, in fact, evokes images of young girls chewing bubble gum and listening to boy bands. Perhaps the bubbly design is a bit silly, but it’s not necessarily a turn-off. The Smurf blue and bright colors actually make me feel carefree…like a child hypnotized by a favorite cartoon.

This site has a different spin on the whole “Search” that we’ve come to expect from other matchmaking sites. Without signing up for this site, you can input search criteria (sex and zip code) and then you are taken to your first match. The difference here is that each match gets its own full page and you simply go to the next page to view the next match. While some may find this tedious, I actually really like this way of presenting matches. A bad or fuzzy picture which might be overlooked on the blitz-style presentation of other sites will get looked at much more closely on Zoosk. However, the information given on these profiles is extremely basic and impersonal. This whole site is basic and impersonal. It’s up to the members to get the whole matchmaking thing going.

Signing up for this site is typical and since the profiles don’t contain much information, you’re signed up with a full profile in less than 10 minutes. Also, this site is totally free! Finally, something great.

This place is basically a bare-bones MySpace or Facebook. It’s free and there’s really no matchmaking involved except that you are taken to people’s profiles who are near your area. I, personally, wouldn’t use this site but by looking at the number of users this site boasts, my opinion is not widely shared. At least give it a look, it’s not a waste of time.

UPDATE 2/3/09: Zoosk is now over 16 million members and growing fast! I forgot to mention a really cool feature offered on Zoosk that makes this site WAY better than I had previously thought. Zoosk connects other social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. For instance, by using Zoosk, you can connect to a MySpace user through Facebook. That’s simply awesome.

Another note is that Zoosk actually does have a Premium membership for which members must pay. By paying, you are able to interact with the dating and flirting aspects of the site. Pricing breaks down as follows:

1 Month is $24.99

3 Months is $17.49

6 Months is $12.50

These are great prices my datesters. The fact that this place opens up a simply enormous community of people for you to connect with means that you would be insane to not check this place out. Go! Now!