Free Online Internet Dating Services for Seniors

Many seniors don't take up free online internet dating services because the available commercial ones are so comprehensive. There is now an increasing number of dating web sites purely for seniors. How that seniority is defined, varies, but usually it means people 40+ years young.

The bigger online dating sites provide lots of members for that age group.

In fact, the number of active members on the top 5 online dating sites was recorded at 22.53 million people, in August, 2004

Of those over 22 million, more than 16 percent were 55 and older, and more than 5 percent were 65 and older, making Internet dating very popular among seniors of our population.

Choosing a service that is free has some advantages. It's an easy and less risky way to introduce yourself to online dating.

However, you may be dissappointed with the number of other members of similar age, as the bulk of members can be found from the commercial services.

With the commercial services, such as Yahoo! Personals (with over 9 million members worldwide), you get great personality matching tools, online dating advice, and other useful features that will make your experience with online dating much more satisfying.

The commercial dating services for seniors includes SeniorFriendFinder.com, which is part of the FriendFinder.com network.

If you want to go the free route, however, one good site for those services is seniorsmatch.com, exclusively for age group 50+.

They promise on their sign-up page that after the (free) registration process you can send and receive messages within the service without any additional costs.