BlackSingles Review
BlackSingles is the most active black singles community that permits membership to black men and women as well as anybody who loves interracial dating. It offers a friendly approach to dating so that all members can find successful romantic relationships through their website. Since its inception in 2002, many black singles have flooded to the website to look for people who share similar beliefs, traditions and cultural aspects. This continuous inflow of people has made it a premier African American dating site. The main target audience is black singles in the United States, but still BlackSingles has a descent member base from many parts of the world. BlackSingles is a part of Spark Media Networks that offers free registration and excellent features for finding true love.
Getting Started
The registration process starts with providing personal information, like your name, email id, gender and location. Since it is a niche dating site, there are lots of other ethnicity options. The layout is simple with plenty of menus on the top. It is very easy to navigate and all the important parts of dating features are available on a single page. Member’s homepage has different sections to look, for current matches, emails, profiles and the community to socialize.
Once you register, it prompts you to add information about your background, lifestyle, appearance, religion and other minute details to enhance your profile. The final step is to upload a photo to increase profile attention.
Find Your Mate
BlackSingles lets users to look for matches through numerous ways. The main page itself helps users to look for new people and it provides quick search and advanced search options. Quick search is by age, gender, photo and username, while advanced search includes recently updated profiles, personality traits and online members.
The members are very limited in BlackSingles so it is advisable to keep a wide range of parameters to get good matches. Many members are not really active on the site, which makes it slightly difficult to track down members who are willing to communicate with you.
Interact with Matches
Once you find your ideal match or interests, you can initiate contact through profiles, email, instant messenger, winks or smiles and message boards. Free members do not avail all these features and they need to upgrade their profile to initiate the conversation with their interests. However, free members can still accept and read mails from premium members.
Features
- Profile creation
- Chat and email members
- Search for matches
- Look for latest profile updates and members who are online
- Read articles about dating
- Zodiac and personality compatibility tests
Unique Features
- ‘Think you would click’ is a fun element on BlackSingles where if you click ‘yes’ the website will tell that someone you are interested and will show them your profile. If they like you back, you will receive an alert!
- BlackSingles will send you the best match every week. You can play compatibility tests to find good matches. Users can also send ‘e-cards’ to initiate a conversation with their matches.
- Subscribers are allowed to use the “Q&A” section where you need to answer a set of questions to complete your matching profile. Based on this profile, the website will send you matches. Ensure you complete the test perfectly, because a retest can be done only after 6 months.
- The most interesting features on BlackSingles are the “diaries” and “encounters”. They help you to meet members in real life and also plan first dates.
- The ‘Secret admirer’ feature lets a user to secretly like their interest and prompts your profile to come up on their search results. If they like your profile in turn, then it all begins from there.
- BlackSingles constantly supervise profiles, pictures and essays to improve the quality of members and ban fake profiles. They have a dedicated FAQ/Help section to assists members.
- BlackSingles is one of the very few African dating websites that organize ‘events’ for their members to meet each other in real life.
Pros
Popular Black dating website
Excellent matching systems
Busy message boards
Good customer care
Cons
No background checks
Not for all singles as it is a niche dating pool
Poor design
No mobile apps
Bottom Line
BlackSingles is a moderate online match-making service that offers black singles an opportunity to bloom their romantic relationships. But the lackluster design, basic features and very low member base makes it difficult for members to find their ideal match.
Upgrading to a premium service is not that costly, but still it’s not worth the money because of its poor features. There are no mobile apps, which makes it inconvenient for tech-savvy people. BlackSingles offers free browsing and registration which can be good for black people, who want to try online dating for the first time or for fun.