I either get very young men who only want sex, and think it is easy to get from an older widow…most of these men are very very cute and I couldn’t have had them if I were their age…or, I get lots and lots of scams…guys or gangs who want to extort every last penny from me. They don’t need to score a lot, because they are talking to many women my age and if everyone gives them even a little, they will score a lot.

There are a few widowers on there who are naive and still in love with their wives, and don’t really want a relationship anyway, so I don’t even know why they are on there…just lonely I guess. I find them rude, wanting me to fill in for their wives in every way but the real way. They want companionship and sex with no strings attached. Sorry, but if that’s what I wanted, I’d rather go back to the thirty-somethings again. At least the sex would be good. If he’s not offering a full relationship, I’d rather have a shallow one with a young man, than a real one with a widower my age….late sixties/early seventies. They only want a nurse or a purse anyway.

Same as anyone of any age: be very, very careful!!

Only go on a (so-called) reputable site;

Never give out your home details - would suggest you get a pay-as-you-go mobile phone that you use only for people you have met through the site - that way, if it doesn’t work out, they don’t have your own phone details.

If you get to meeting someone, meet in a public place somewhere other than where your home is;

Never give anyone money, whatever the ‘sob’ story is - in fact, if they mention money in any way, run a mile!

Take it very slowly to begin with!

Think that’s about it!! I know people who have had very successful relationships start through a website meeting but others who have been badly stung. However lovely the person sounds in emails, even on the phone, they can still turn out to be demanding, possessive, selfish, unkind - have any number of undesirable traits.

But, on the other hand, they could be absolutely lovely and the person of your dreams!!

Good luck - I hope you enjoy the experience and something wonderful happens to you.

Beware, scammers like to hang out on dating sites. They will have a dating profile that tells you they are someone they are not, including a fake profile pic. Be especially wary if the pic is of an very attractive person who doesn’t seem to fit the profile age. Since age is one of the pieces of profile information you are typically asked to include in your application to the site, a scammer can easily pick out prime looking targets. So some advice if you are a senior and are using dating sites (nothing wrong with keeping the blood moving seniors):

1. Keep your profile information to the bare minimum. You can always add if you don’t get many likes.
2. Don’t communicate with them outside of the site message services until you feel very comfortable with the person you have been matched with. Ask for and verify their out of site connection numbers before supplying your own,
3. Avoid anyone who may say they are serving in the military based overseas. This is probably a big lie and these are your famous “romance scammers” often.
4. When you do make off site connections and feel comfortable enough to meet that person, do so ASAP (hey you’re a senior and the clock is running down).

Most people on these senior dating site are genuine, some a little too genuine (if you get my drift). Be wise, be aware, have fun, and be safe!

Of course it’s possible :).

I suppose the question is, are you truly looking for a *partner*?

If a person has spent a majority of their life single, is well set in their ways, they may simply be not willing and able to ‘make room’ in their lives for another person. Are they interested in sharing their living space with another person? Are they interested in having another person possibly sharing a bathroom with them, or possibly snoring all night? What foibles are they willing to ‘put up’ with when this other person ‘invades’ their space, or when they take up residence in someone else’s? These are big heavy questions.

On my first date, with my wife I asked her, point blank-I know you’re a vegetarian. Are you OK having meat in your kitchen? She told me she was, but she told me ‘no pork’. I told her I was OK with that, and we’ve lived with it ever since. As an older adult it may be MUCH harder to make these adjustments and compromises, and there could be dozens (hundreds!) of them.

Me? I think it’s worth it :).

Q: What is the difference between a dating app for seniors and a dating site for seniors?

A: The subject matter, “Seniors” is not relevant.

The real question is the difference between an “app” and a “site”.

An “app” is short for “application” and is software installed directly to a computer. For instance, “Firefox” is an application, and is installed to your computer, tablet, phone, etc.

TYPICALLY, when someone refers to an “App”, they are meaning this in the context of an application that gets installed to a phone.

With this in mind, a “dating app” is an application that is installed directly to your phone, usually from a centralized application repository provided by either Google or Apple.

A dating SITE is simply a website, that is for dating. And if it is for Seniors, it is a dating site for seniors. This means that the contents, information, etc are accessed via a web browser (which is an app).

The same ones everyone should.

People are out there who will take advantage of the lonely. People are out there who want your time, attention, and money - and might not give you anything in return. People are out there who are emotionally and/or mentally unstable (and sometimes just outright criminal) on the internet in *at least* the same proportion they are in real life.

I worked with a guy who works straight midnight shift. Saw him again the other day. He has just finished a nasty divorce a little over a year ago, and decided he would try his hand at online ‘dating’. With women in Thailand. And he wouldn’t listen to us. And it is working about as well as you think it would.

The first one he ‘dated’ we’re pretty sure wasn’t even a woman. Or in Thailand. This ‘person’ would only ever text, chat, or email - nothing ‘live’ like a phone call or anything with a video feed (like Skype). Sent them odd bits of money to ‘help’ with things (apparently everyone in Thailand regularly crashes their scooters and motorbikes, it has been a common theme with everyone he’s ‘dated’). We finally convinced him ‘she’ wasn’t real when he sent them a phone in the mail and they *still* wouldn’t talk to him with a voice or send live video. I am guessing he got a few pictures of some naked Asian woman out of it but, at the ratio of dollars spent versus picture gotten, free ones on the internet would of been a whole lot cheaper.

The second one was at least a live female person. He spent a *lot* of money on helping her out with motor scooter repairs, replacing the air conditioning system her brother stole, and whatever story they could make up at the moment. He was eventually rewarded with a trip over there to actually meet this person. It went better than we (his coworkers) expected; he wasn’t stood up OR robbed and left at the side of the road somewhere. He *did* get to take her, and her ‘extended’ family, many places in Thailand and pay for everything for all of them. He also bought and installed shelving, countertop, and appliances in a house, and did some handyman work at more than one ‘relative’s’ house that he even paid for the material at. She was trying to convince him to buy ‘her mother’s house’ for her, of course she would handle all the paperwork, after he returned. She broke it off when he wouldn’t and had a ‘girlfriend’ she ‘knew was interested in him’ contact him. At least he wasn’t killed, and he might of even gotten to sleep with her (I don’t know if the extended family she traveled everywhere with watched or not), but she sure was an expensive date.

The new one he was ‘dating’ when I saw him last wants to get married, have him buy a house over there, and have riding elephants as part of the ceremony. Who knows how much money he has sent her.

I wished him luck and that, again, he needed to be careful that he didn’t end up rolled and left for dead on the side of the road in Thailand. That he probably only got out of that the last time because they thought they could get a whole lot more money out of him alive. That she might of even sold his name to the next woman as an easy mark. He just laughed. =)

Anyone who is slim build and not terribly fit/strong regardless of age/sex is advised to be sensible about where they meet people - choose a public space rather than a dimly lit Park or a out of the way pub up an alleyway, no matter how nice that pub looks in daytime, you do not want to invite trouble into your life as some people get drunk BEFORE they meet you for a “Date/social drink”.

Who & what people are looking for on dating sites varies enormously from people who want to run wild & free and find a partner who also likes Extreme Sports, to someone who might be older (or injured/born disabled) who’s looking for a more sedentary companion. Society is infested with people who practise deception so all are advied to do everything they can to establish the NATURE of whoever they meet. My advice is that you pay a lot of attention to how much the person you meet, drinks, and especially pay attention if they’re texting anyone else or taking more than one phone call during your Date. I once met up with someone who spent the entire time replying to texts, it wasn’t exactly an enjoyable “date” - years later I discovered that this individual or their supposedly Later Met partner had actually abused my home address by setting up a Life Insurance policy in their name claiming them to own/occupy MY home! (This was proven to me face to face by a member of Bank Staff to whom I shall be eternally grateful for proving to me that I wasn’t ‘going mad’, and I wasn’t wrong); What the person had been doing was sending feedback to a 3rd party that I was till in the pub, presumably the texts were going to the person I later found out had robbed her employer of £25,000 Takings before the two of them emigrated to the USA in presumably financed by the Fraud Proceeds of a Life Insurance Payout after they faked the death of one or other of them. (You’ve probably guessed that I stopped dating a long time ago!) Older people using dating sites can be more prone to this type of Fake Date scenario, and younger people might be more prone to being overcome by a drunkard who loses control of themself. I’d advise anyone to take a friend with them if they can who can sit/stand at a discreet distance on the first Date & help make sure nothing untoward happens.

Whatever you do - do NOT go to someone’s house (or to a party at their friend’s house) until you’ve met and chatted with someone several times. Make sure your phone is charged before you go out and has credit allowing you to make at least half a dozen calls. Tell your family members or close friendswhere you’re going out to and when you’ll be back. Websites will usually issue similar Good Practice advise to people regardless of their age/Dating aims.

In no special order —

There are some married men or men living with women on dating sites who try to pass themselves off as “available” men. If a man won’t give you his last name and/or lies about where he lives, there’s a good chance that he’s married.

Read his profile, carefully, as it will give you clues as to what he’s like and what he’s looking for, however, you can’t believe everything that you read.

If he sounds too good to be true, he probably is.

Meet in a public place. It’s probably better to meet in the daytime.

Don’t get into his car on the first date.

If you live alone in a house, don’t let him know where you live until you’ve been out with him several times.

Don’t, under any circumstances, give him money or have him invest money for you.

There are some nice men on dating sites, but not all of the men are nice. Good luck!

It's better than ever that people over 60 are looking for love. With the Internet, you can meet mature singles anywhere in the world! There are many online dating sites for older people to choose from. There are so many online dating sites for seniors to choose from.

Popular dating services for the elderly range from the mainstream, such as Match and eHarmony, to niche sites such as Silver Singles, which specializes in people over 50.

eHarmony is the best dating site for people over 50 because their unique matching technology is based on scientific research. It uses more than 20 compatibility dimensions to narrow down matches -- more than any other online dating site.

You can also try Hookoo. it's a highly advanced dating site for people of all ages. There are a lot of things to love about this site and a lot of reasons for people to choose it over and over again.

There are many for the over 50’s but, you are just starting out at the prime age to be scam fodder, There will be numerous young ladies fall in love with you within hours/days. Some even admit they are from Ghana and ask is that a problem. Beautiful Russians ladies too. Look out for red flags, they ask to move to hangouts or whatsapp so they can get to know you better, they are highly professional. Don’t give to much information as they want to know about your life and family but not say much about themselves. Never ever send money, iTunes or amazon gift cards, There are lots of information on here regarding romance scams

None the cons and scammers have all the bases covered and not to be mean or rude people your age is what their looking for,your marked b4 entering,not just u me I see it everytime you think they gave u pegged as someone they can’t con or scam,here come a half dozen more! Trust me thier are no young men or women which will be the deadest giveaway is thier age most that you’ll accidentally meet or see coming are younger with the bull story ready,and they didn’t just run across u! If you truly serious about finding true love,go to functions if it’s you and have no problems socialiwith people,ie. Dances church functions etc, only sure way you have to be able to hear and see what their saying about,body movements eyes/facial talk and type! My opinion abd others are if di so do your research,screen screen screen and keep an open eye and mind!

Pretty much the same ones you’d use for posting anything on social media.

Namely, don’t post too much!

I want to have a decent ‘sense’ of a woman from looking at her profile, but in my mind it’s a fail if I can fault her simply by looking at it. Most I look at will readily indicate that she either just isn’t very smart, or prone to making poor choices. To me, that’s a turn-off.

Any lawyer will tell you to keep your mouth shut and don’t talk to the police if you’re being interviewed. The same is largely true with dating sites! Most women around my parts who use them post just enough ‘incriminating’ things that it’s very easy to conclude that they are a neurotic dumpster fire largely lacking in life competency and not being compatible with someone like me.

However, there are a few things that really should not be discernable from a dating profile. Where you live, where you work, and your family, for instance. Save these for after you’ve met a person and can decide whether you want them to know this or not. Do not post a photo of the front of your house that includes the house number, for instance. Do not post a picture of yourself in your work clothing that indicates precisely where you are employed, particularly if it’s in retail or the like which is open to the public. It’s okay to state that you have children, but it’s best to not post pictures of them, especially with their names.

The problem is that you have no idea who may be looking at this. It may well be someone you’d much rather not have looking at it. Don’t make it too easy for them to figure out where to find you at.

I'm not a senior woman myself, but someone close to me who lost her partner 3 years ago has been trying senior dating sites. She often says she doesn't want to date again, but sometimes feels lonely, so she registered an account on SeniorMatch. The other day, she mentioned meeting a man who seemed healthy and had a great sense of humor. She said she wanted to keep talking to him and see where it goes.

I think it can be challenging for older people to find a new partner, but I'm truly happy for her and wish her the best. After all, no one wants to spend the rest of their life alone. It's heartwarming to see her taking steps to find companionship. While the process might not be easy, it's inspiring to see her open herself up to new possibilities. I hope she finds the connection she's looking for, whether it's a deep friendship or a romantic relationship. Everyone deserves a chance at happiness, regardless of age.

Hi,

Of Course, there are several dating sites are available for seniors.

Dating at a young age is lots of fun and energy but dating at the age of ’50s, 60’s it is different. Dating is not just for young people but also for senior people. Senior dating is also a lot of fun if you do it right manner, but it will take time to get a good partner for senior people in the olden days. But Present days there are a lot of online senior dating sites are available for senior people.

Most popular and commonly used senior dating sites are

• Senior Match
• Our Time
• eHarmony
• Senior Friends Date
• Silver Singles
• Elite Singles

It’s never too late to choose the best senior dating site to get a partner. I suggest Senior Friends Date because it is a free senior online dating site.

Hope this information is useful,

Thanks.

1. Find the right site(s) that work for you. Trying to meet someone on Tinder probably won’t work. Try Ourtime, Plenty of Fish, Silver Singles and or Match.
2. Have nice photos. At least one that shows your face and one that shows your full body. Think about having a pro take photos.
3. Don’t limit yourself any more than you have to. Profiles that have long lists of people who should not respond. I am sort of turned off by profiles that go:, no one over 20 miles, college graduates only, no one shorter than 6 feet, no smokers, no one who voted for Trump, etc, etc, They strike me as someone who would be a PITA.
4. Be active in contacting people you might be interested in.
5. Spell check your profile info. Typo’s can make you seem stupid. A well written profile can help a lot.

A couple of years ago I saw a headline on MSN that read something like “12 tips for great success on dating sites. I thought oh, great I may get some good ideas. It was the stupidest thing I ever saw and would do more harm that good, They went something like 1. Lie about your age, 2, Photoshop your photos or use old photos. 3 Lie about your income. 4. Lie about your education. I think that is terrible advice. It may get you some first dates you would not get otherwise but the real you will prevail and you will just end up wasting time and disappointing yourself and the person you meet. Being hones pays.

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