With busy schedules from jobs, classes, and extracurriculars, online dating is more popular than ever. I asked my friend, a 19 year old female college student, to take a trial run on the most popular dating apps. Each has been rated from 0-5 on Interface, Ease of Sign Up, Personal Connection, College Age Compatibility and of course, Creeper Status (that rating doesn’t count in the final score). These are the results!
Zoosk
Interface: 0/5 “It was having trouble sending the confirmation email.”
Ease of Sign Up: 0/5
Personal Connection: 2/5 “You fill out a bio but you interact with people based off of what is on other’s profile. It’s mostly pictures, a few questions, and a short bio.”
College Age Compatibility: 3/5“There were people who were in their early 20s and it is easy to use.”
Creeper Status: 3/5
“The technical aspect of it was messed up, I hardly got to use it.”
Total Score: 5/20
Coffee Meets Bagel
Interface: 0/5 Awful. “Can we just put awful?”
Ease of Sign Up: 5/5 “Very easy. It’s just like tinder in that you use Facebook to sign up.”
Personal Connection: 2/5 “It matches you up with people, but only off of your mutual Facebook friends.”
College Age Compatibility: 3/5 “It has potential to be popular in colleges, but I feel like it needs to fix some technicalities. It’s definitely easy enough that people would like it. It’s very similar to Tinder.
Creeper Status: 0/5 “No one can creep on you! You have to consent to everything.”
“Coffee Meets Bagel seems like it would be a really simple way of getting matched up with people who would fit into your life really well, but it’s still so new that not many people are on it yet. Also, they haven’t worked out a lot of the kinks yet.”
Total Score: 10/20
POF (Plenty of Fish)
Interface: ⅖ “The messaging is very wonky. It’s just not appealing to look at. It feels like the entire app is stuck in 2006.”
Ease of Sign Up: 4/5
Personal Connection: 3/5 “You fill out a bio, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s matching you with people.”
College Age Compatibility: 2/5 “A lot of the people were 25 to 35.”
Creeper Status: 5/5 “There were literally two people that weren’t creepy”
“Plenty of Fish is a pretty “real” dating app, only because most of its users seem very genuine. It’s kind of difficult to use because its confusing on how to find people, and the messaging doesn’t work very well.”
Total Score: 11/20
Tinder
Interface: 5/5
Ease of Sign Up: 5/5
Personal Connection: 1/5 “Some people use it as a hook-up app, not many people use it for dating.”
College Age Compatibility: 4/5
Creeper Status: 3/5
“Tinder is the online dating game. It’s meant to boost confidence. It’s easy to match with people you find attractive. Some people use it as a hook-up app, not many people use it for dating. It’s kind of like a fad.”
Total Score: 15/20
OkCupid
Interface: 4/5
Ease of Sign Up: 4/5
Personal Connection: 5/5 “Not only do you give a bio about yourself or what you’re looking for on the site, but they also match you up with other people based on questions that you answer.”
College Age Compatibility: 3/5 “Because it is real dating, it has a lot more mature people, but there are still a lot of college students.”
Creeper Status: 3/5 “It doesn’t use Facebook to connect, so you could be catfished…”
“OkCupid is a dating app thats actually used for dating. It’s very based off of personal connection. It’s been around for a while so all it’s kinks are worked out. It’s very popular, so you know it’s trusted.”
Total Score: 16/20
There you have it! A real opinion on the top dating apps available. Now it’ll be much easier to make a decision on which to download if you decide to get into the online dating game.