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What Love & Friends Say About Themselves
Love and Friends.com...and great place to meet!
We're called Love and Friends for a reason - we're a friendly online dating site where many members refer their single friends.
Maybe you've relocated or just want to meet more like-minded people. Lots of 'dating' members make friends on the way to the 'love' bit. You can get an idea of our members from doing a search, our success stories pages and our lively discussion forums.
Over 250,000 people have been online dating with us since we founded way back in 1999. We have a particularly strong membership throughout the UK and Ireland and our offices happen to be in London. We also attract members from further afield who like the way we run our online dating site.
Love & Friends - Ease Of Use
Clearly laid out site, with links to new faces, news, FAQ and to login....they even have a list of Members success stories.
However, I found the FAQ, and some of the other information pages a bit 'wordy'. Maybe it's late, and I'm tired, but I have needed to read some parts a couple of time to be able to explain them properly here.
Love & Friends Signup Procedure
Free to register, selecting your geographical location, then asking you to write a few words on your Occupation, Education, Heritage, Religious Beliefs, & Politics. All these are optional, and you can save as you go along (great feature for those who have Internet connections likely to drop out just before you click Save!!)
You can edit these at a later date, so have time to think of something witty to write.
You are then asked for a headline, one -liner to describe yourself, and then a little more detail. Again, you can come back to this later.
Once you have completed your own profile, it's time to look at the type of person you are looking for...so you can be clear in your own mind as to who you are looking for, or broaden your usual 'type' that you go for.
Then there are a couple of compatibility Questionnaire to complete - these are fun!
Love & Friends Photo Information
Yes, you can either upload or post and have Love and Friends upload photos for you.
Free Members have to have each photo approved; Full members can add photos and publish them immediately. Full members can also have a private photo, not on public view that they can send to other chosen members.
Free Members can only view photos of Full Members (cannot see additional photos of other Free members)
Love & Friends Member Levels
When you search for potential matches, you will see one of 3 little logo's. These are:
'Email OK' Badge = member has verified their email address - so you can be assured any messages you send will be received by them via their email.
'Full Member' Badge = member is a Full member. Full members (having paid something) are often more likely to take the site seriously (respond to emails) than free members.
'ID Checked' Badge = member has been in to see us for an ID check - so we've seen some proof they are who they say they are and where they live.
Love & Friends Search Tools
Speedy Search: Search by age, geography, type of contact.
Detailed Search: Search by the above, plus family stuff, personal, & background.
You can also search by 'key' word, like scuba, ski, true romance novels, knitting etc.
Yes-No-Maybe: another feature of the site, where you can 'tag' people who you are interested in. They will only know you have tagged them a Yes or a Maybe, if they also tag you as a yes/maybe.
Love & Friends Messaging System
Free members - have to earn the right to be able to send messages, by "Tagging" others members, but Free members are able to reply to messages sent to them by Full Members.
Full Members are able to send unlimited (fair usage policy in place) messages, can send their email & phone number via message should they wish, and able to send ecards, receive Read Receipts and CC yourself a copy of messages sent.
Extras offered by Love & Friends
On the sign-up page, there is a warning - to people who may be thinking of registering for less than genuine reasons. These people are asked to stay away. This does offer some confidence in the site, not that they will be able to screen every single member - but that they are trying hard to make sure that people meet like-minded people.
Like me, you may struggle with coming up with yet another user-name. Love and Friends has a fun User-name Generator...type in a couple of words and it gives you loads of suggested (and available) usernames.
Prices:- What Does Love & Friends Cost?
Last Updated
25 Feb 2010
Monthly Price - £14.94
3 Monthly Price - £29.94
Annual Price - £69.94
Love & Friends: Special Offers
All prices are currently reduced to:
1 month: £14.94
3 months: £29.94
12 months: £69.94
1 month and 3 month memberships are automatically renewed at the end of the period, but you can cancel re billable membership at any stage before (min 5 days before) renewal
Love & Friends: Additional Information
In the Search menu, you can click on Online - and this shows you how many Members have been online within the past 24 hours - in my case 1264 Members logged in within the past 24 hours.
What we found on Love & Friends
I feel that this dating site takes a little while to get used to, to be able to search and find suitable matches easily.
It is also great in that it helps people find friends too, if you have moved to a new area and are looking to improve your social life. You may also be able to find new people to develop new interests, and hobbies with.
Overall, a likeable site, lots of members and some great features.


How Love & Friends Scored Out Of A Possible 100
Love & Friends has reached a brilliant score of 76 points.
You can be sure that Love & Friends is a top quality dating site and the chances of you finding a match on Love & Friends is well above average.




