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JDate.com – An Online Jewish Dating Community

When arriving at JDate.com, you will find four different couples, with pictures and stories flashing. Below, you will see that this is an online community for Jewish people to meet and to date other Jewish people online. The first thing they want to know when you decide to join, is the sex that you are, and what you are looking for, male or female. From here, they will ask what relationship type you are looking for and what your current relationship status is. From there, you will select religious preferences, such as how often you keep kosher and how often you go to the synagogue.

Once you successfully arrive on the homepage of JDate.com, you can do many things. The first thing they would like you to do is fill in your personal information and finish your profile. However, you can opt out and search the site if you would rather. On the home page, you will see your matches, and if you have filled out a profile, they will match you based on where you live. Below the picture of a match, is their color based on the personality test you can take on the site, and the best way to communicate with that type of person, this person for example, is a yellow. If they have more photos, you can view them, and details about them. If you wish to email or contact them, you will need to of course, upgrade your membership.

Under the view matches tab, you can view your potential matches, all of which may live in or near your area. There are 17 in my area alone. You can put in your preferences so you will only find matches that meet your requirements also, which is a nice touch. You can send flirts to people you choose for your matches or that you are interested in. You are given 30 total that you can use.

The next tab over is the search tab. Here you can do a quick search for the sex you are seeking, age range you would like, and how far they can be from where you live. You can also do a keyword search, check out the photo gallery or look up a member if you are interested in them. The next tab, is the hot lists tab. You can find out who is checking you out, refresh your memory on who you are checking out, do we click; which is a way for you to say yes on someone’s profile, if they say yes back, then you click, custom lists where you can name your hot lists and put people on them, and matches by mail where the site will send you messages from people who are compatible with you.

If you click on community, you can see who is online, male or female, and you can message whoever you would like to message. There are lots of people to look through and you can choose to only look through profiles with pictures, certain genders, or age groups, for your convenience. The next tab contains your profile, here you can update many things including the basics, your lifestyle, interest, relationship, color code, and photos. Under your basic info, you can add your physical attributes, and change some of the details you put in at the beginning. Under personality and interests, you can add what your favorite activities, pets, foods, and music are. Under the relationship tab, you can add details about your ideal relationship, your past relationships, what you are looking for, what your perfect first date would be like, and what your ideal match would be in regards to age, relationship status, religion, education level, and drinking or smoking habits. You can use the color code test to find out your personality type and add photos to your profile as well.

If you click on the JDateTV tab, you will find a place for different weeks that you have been on the site and helpful videos for what people might be looking for and appreciate in you or what you need to know before you start talking to people on the site. The subscription button is basically the upgrade option found on all dating sites, here you can choose how long you want to sign up. The monthly fee per month goes down based on how long you choose to stay on the site. JDate.com is a dating community for the Jewish that has a lot of different options available to those looking for a date.

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JewishMingle.com – An Online Matchmaking Service for Jewish Singles

JewishMingle.com is an online dating service targeted toward the Jewish demographic. When first visiting the site, you will see a man and woman smiling, success stories, and an online sign in. After deciding to sign up, it will ask you if you are a man seeking a woman, or woman seeking a man, these are the only options to choose from. Being straight is not an option for this online dating service.

Next JewishMingle.com wants to know your height, body type, eye and hair color, religion which is basically just the type of Jewish faith you practice such as orthodox, conservadox, reform, secular, traditional, etc. It then asks your education and occupation. When you choose your username and password, your password is not hidden, so be sure that no one is around that you don’t want in your account when signing up. The advantage to this however, is that you don’t need to confirm your password.

When you sign in for the first time on JewishMingle.com, you will find that they leave you a to do list of items, browsing, or you can choose to go to your home page. I chose the homepage, as I am only reviewing the site, but there were several interesting options to choose from. On your homepage, you will find your profile activity on the left side of the screen. Here you can view who has emailed or smiled at you, sent you a card or spark, instant messaged, viewed, or added you to their favorites. Under this is your sent emails, smiles, cards, sparks, instant messages, profiles viewed, and favorites of your own.

If you want to update your profile, you can do so just underneath this, under the section appropriately named update profile. Here you can add photos of yourself, finish your profile with details, write essays, match preferences with others, and color code your profile. If you have friends, they are listed just below this, with a button for adding and removing them as you see fit.

If you click on match preferences, located in the middle of your homepage, you will be directed to a page on the dating service where you can choose the body type, education, relationship, status, religion, religious activity, kosher, smoker, or drinker options so you can find appropriate matches that will work well for you and your lifestyle. You can even choose the age range you would like to date, the location or how far they can live from where you are, and there heights. You can also choose to have emails sent to you when new matches are found and show the preferences on your profile for when others view it.

On the top of your home page, there are tabs for Home, Connect, Search, and My Profile, each takes you someplace new. Above this is a place that welcomes you with your name, upgrades your account, shows the details of your account, can help with questions, or you can log out when you are finished. This is located in the top right of www.JewishMingle.com’s page.

Of course clicking the home page won’t do anything else while you are on it, so clicking to my right, on connect, I found that there is a place for my inbox, chat, instant messenger, and message boards. New to the site, you will find no new messages, not even a welcome message accustomed by many other dating service sites. The chat that is located just below this encourages you to enter the chat room, and lets you know how many people are online. Of course, when you click this, it will take you to a screen where you can upgrade your standard membership for a monthly fee, the lowest fee per month for the most months, of course.

The instant messenger is located just below this, however; just like the chat, you have to buy a membership upgrade in order to use it. You can view your history. This differs from chat as within a chat room, you have a public conversation, where the IM is one on one. You can set your settings once you upgrade however, which allows you to choose some different items for your instant messenger.

If you decide that you are feeling a little curious, you can use the search button to do a search on the dating service. Some options include a quick or advanced search, who’s online, recent matches, photo gallery, photo shuffle, stand out profiles, and a username search. There are also a couple unique ones that I have not found elsewhere, the Think You’d Click search and the Question of the Week search. The Think You’d Click option allows you to vote for users with photos. You can choose yes maybe or no for their pictures. The Question of the Week for this week is: What world event in your lifetime do you feel has had the most impact on you? Here, you can comment on the question, and have a discussion with other members. This is a unique feature to JewishMingle.com that I have not found on every dating site.

The last tab is the my profile tab, here you can see an overview of your profile. You can also put in more basic information, fill in the about me section, add fun facts, match preferences, essays, color codes, photos, and comment on the question of the week. The color codes was something that wasn’t clear, so I clicked on it. There are different colors for different personality types and here you can take the profile  questionnaire. For each question there are six groups of answers, they call them questions one through six, but really you choose one word to describe yourself from each, and then move on to the next section. This test takes approximately 15 minutes and deals mainly with you as a youth, yet it is a very unique test not found on many other dating services. www.JewishMingle.com is for those of Jewish decent and faith and is a place to meet singles looking for a date.