A Review of LavalifeWrite your own review of Lavalife! Reviewed By: Will Location: Calgary, Alberta Sex: Male Rating: ***** Date: December 24, 2007 I give it 4 stars, as have actually met women from LL that I am still friends with, and hopefully I may get more out of. LL seems to be the best of the bad lot of these sites, I have even had 2 1/2 successes with the intimates section. I would give LL 5 stars but it isnt perfect. The upsides to LL are: LL seems to kill fake profiles quickly, No recurring fees, just credits (in Canada anyway) custom filtration is quite handy, quick searches are a good idea. Downsides are: one cant hide profiles one has already decided isnt for you, no way to filter out women one has already smiled at, forcing one to wade through scores of pics, Doesnt keep track of total smiles sent to received ratio, the LL 'party'isnt geo based, so ergo pointless, poor profile weeding out in 'intimate' sections, girls posting profiles that state " I dont want sex/nsa" etc (so why the HELL are they on intimates for???!) Other than that, the usual ups and downs apply to the site. Girls being optimistic about their weight, putting 'few extra pounds' or 'average' when they are clearly VERY overweight, forcing one to untick the FEW (and I stress FEW) extra pounds box. To be fair, alot of men tick 'muscular' or 'athletic' when they have visible beer guts, so it does cut both ways. From personal experience, I have found with LL and all others that one has a high failure rate of smiles, flirts or what have you. With LL, I must have smiled at every half decent girl 18-30 within a 200 mile radius over the last year or so, Im guessing it must be at least 300 smiles I have sent out, for a return of about hmmmm 20? I have learned, that to have even a small degree of success, one has to almost 'smile spam' a site in huge numbers, just to harvest a few back. In essence, Im just about done with LL. I have pretty much exhausted the site, and to send out another 300 or so smiles to get 20 back is too much like hard work. Everone knows that with dating sites, if you are a half decently attractive and nice intelligent girl, you get huge numbers of smiles/flirts/IMs from men, and that women dont really 'need' to activley participate, it all comes to them. I think im going to go back to hitting the bars. Least I can talk to real people and not sit in front of the PC to send out smile after smile for little return!!! |