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If there are singles in the world, there will always be matchmakers and dating sites. The big names in this space are OkCupid, Tinder, Bumble, Match, and eHarmony. Love is a potential on all of them, but they do different things for different people.

The first thing you’ll notice: Zoosk’s layout is bland. The simple blue and white theme is more boring than it is minimalistic, and profile layouts are so blah that you may forget you even signed up. You’re obviously not using a dating site specifically because it’s pretty, but there’s a reason buzz about OkCupid soared when those graphically-gorgeous “DTF” ads came out. No one wants to spend months on a site that looks like it was designed in a day.

Zoosk is a good middle ground for people who want more than a hookup but don’t want to be pressured into marriage immediately. If you’re looking for something more lasting than just a hookup or something casual, Match and eharmony are good alternatives. Like Zoosk, Match and eharmony have a paid subscription model, so the matches are more likely to be looking for a relationship that’s more serious and long term. The idea is that if you have “skin in the game” (AKA money), then you’re going to take it seriously.

Because Match and eHarmony are more likely to cater to an older crowd, both are also equipped to be used on traditional laptops and web browsers. Zoosk has a desktop version, but the massachusetts sugar daddy websites site is better suited for millennials using the smartphone app.

Zoosk has all of these features built-in to their platform, but the number of spammy profiles makes you wonder why you’re even on this site to begin with. The site might be good for mobile and desktop users who are looking for real relationships, but it seems you’re just wading around the ocean of phony people, as you look for a life-preserver of an actual person to connect with. Finding a partner is already difficult, so adding a questionable online dating experience on top of that shouldn’t be this difficult too.

The word on the street

I combed through various review websites looking for positive things people are saying about the Zoosk site and mobile app and it was really tough. Most of the user reviews say that the dating site is full of messages or cold opens with no replies. In some cases, people found it difficult to cancel accounts with the company offering members free weeks and months, if they stayed with the service.

“Zoosk boasts ‘Millions of Members!’ Well, this is true, and not true. What Zoosk fails to mention is how many of those millions are actually active. See, if you join Zoosk and quit, your profile remains active. It still shows up years after you are gone. After the big push with Facebook in 2007, nearly all of those accounts are dead.

In reality, only a small percentage of the people you see on Zoosk are current, active members. The rest are dead profiles.

This is easily proven by finding photos that are date-stamped. It is not unusual to find photos stamped 2006, 2007 or even older. Dead profiles, guaranteed.

So, if you were to randomly email 30 people on Zoosk, odds are that 85% of those profiles are dead and you’ll never get a reply. 4 of your emails might make it to living, breathing members. Not good odds.

Zoosk even tactfully uses these dead profiles in their extra charge services, such as “Boost”. You physically need to be online to activate this service. Yet, when you click on a boosted member, you’ll find that they haven’t been online, even recently. So, how did they get onto this extra-charge service? Zoosk pretty much randomly loads in members for their “Boost” feature when they don’t have enough current members willing to pay for it.