Dating Direct

“The UK’s largest dating service”

DatingDirect promotes itself as the UK’s largest dating service, offering online personals, internet dating, and opportunities for singles to connect with each other.  Like most other online dating services, DatingDirect allows you to post your profile and search the database of online personals for free.  If you decide to communicate with someone interesting you find in the dating personals, then there is a membership fee to do so.

Your profile and online personals

The DatingDirect website allows you to post your personal profile in a great deal of detail.  While other matchmaking services limit you to two or three photos in your profile, DatingDirect allows you to post up to five pictures.  You can even mark certain photos as “private” so they are only visible to other members whom you have added to your favourites list.

Searching the dating website

Searching the online personals is quite easy with DatingDirect, using their standard search feature, their Premier search feature, or the newest method called a Postcode search.  Standard searches allow you to see a person’s age and basic information, while a Premier search lets you include more details like race, religion, smoker/non-smoker, children or no children, etc.

The Postcode search is a feature that allows you to search by distance from your postcode. It is a handy way to search the dating website and find singles located within a specified distance from your postcode.  Many members really like this new function as it gives them another way to customize their matchmaking and internet dating activities.

Communication and messaging

With a DatingDirect membership, you can send and receive e-mail to other singles you find on the dating site, but you can also set up SMS text messaging to your phone so that you will know when there is an e-mail message waiting for you.  You can even customize the text alerts to let you know when an e-mail you sent to someone else is opened and read.

Offline events and activities

DatingDirect is associated with Chemistry, a UK company that holds offline dating activities and special events.  It is a great way to expand your online dating search to include meeting face to face with other singles.  DatingDirect members can attend nearby functions, so if you want to supplement internet dating with some in-person matchmaking, this is a terrific way to do so.

A word about online dating safety

DatingDirect provides an online dating safety checklist to help you make the most of your online personals while staying safe and maintaining your privacy.  Never give out personal information until you are confident that the other person is trustworthy.  If you decide to meet in person, always arrange to meet in a public place and let a friend know where you are going and what time you expect to be home.

It takes time to get to know someone, so do not rush it.  Let your online relationship progress at a natural pace and soon you may find yourself no longer needing an online matchmaking service.

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