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MySingleFriend Review

Sarah Beeny's new venture lets the people who know you best describe your virtues and vices in a fun new twist on online dating sites.

A very original dating site which stands aside all other sites through involving your friends into the process of finding a new date for you. Now, I understand that it might sound a bit weird in the beginning – online dating can be intimidating on your own, let alone when you have to involve others in the business. But come to think of it, why not?! And wouldn’t you rather trust someone who has friends backing up their claims of being handsome and fabulous (or well, at least normal!) than some mysterious Mr or Miss X who might turn out to be entirely something else than what you expected?

What’s even better, you don’t even have to whip up your own profile and fork out the money! Your friends can do that for you – of course, it won’t happen without your consent, but it sounds like a good idea for a surprise present to someone in your life who you think deserves better than sitting home alone on a Friday night.

Be the matchmaker for your single friends

A great feature on the site is 'matchmaking', where the friend that creates your profile for the site, can choose suitable candidates for your date and place them in your folder for you to check them out. After all, we don’t sometimes know what’s good for ourselves, but friends will always look out for us, don’t they? And even if you do have some friends with a naughty streak in their sense of humour, fret not for no one can add anything to or delete anything from your profile without your consent.

Setting up your mysinglefriend profile

No one can enter this site without a recommending friend. However, this doesn’t mean that if you don’t have a kind-hearted and/or meddling mate who would sign you up there, then you’re doomed to being single forever. You can join on your own as well, but you need to provide details (such as name and email address, both confidential, of course) for a friend who would then write a recommendation for you. In any case, only you and you alone can add vital information about yourself! The profile-creating has been made much easier though as your friend will be doing a big chunk of work for you, plus it’s such a good fun too, to read what your friend is thinking about you and how she/he has described you.

Searching on My Single Friend

The search is simple and straightforward with both standard and advanced options and it’s easy to use and handy to grasp. However, in this site you don’t have an option to 'send a wink' to the ones you like should you be a little shy starting up a conversation. However, your friends can do the 'matchmaking' bit for you as well – the one who described you at your profile, can find a suitable date for you and put it in a special folder for you to approve or decline.

The only downside of this site is perhaps the look of the profile – it’s not very thorough and concise, and a lot of it comes in solely text form (as opposed to some other sites that let you just tick the boxes, thus creating a mini-profile for you), which is not so good if you’re not very skilled with words (but again, this is where your clever friend comes in!). The tiny italic font used on the site isn’t also the best one to read, but this is a minor problem in a site that is generally very original and efficient.

As for extras you don’t get much – in fact just the emails, but with your friend doing half the job advertising you and making you sound all cool and sexy, you don’t really need more!

Free vs Paid site

Free users can, like on most sites, create profiles, perform searches, choose favourites and participate in the 'matchmaking' process. You can see who has visited your site and read their profiles, but you cannot send or receive mails from other users. As there are no extras on the site (instant messaging, video/audio chat), that’s pretty much the only difference there is.

Pros and Cons

Original and fun idea that lets your friends create a profile for you.
Small fonts, no 'wink' feature.