The decline of online dating is terminal… Internet dating sites were rather good around 2006-2012. Since then they have really gone downhill. So many have become tacky money making machines and are teeming with scammers and fake profiles. It's almost like we've hit the point of diminishing returns there's so many out there and it's the wild west in terms of regulation, so many hidden charges and upgrades. Ultimately, they're just not very good at finding people partners and very good at exploiting the kind and the lonely. A free site, like those old free pen pal sites you used to get in the first few years of the net, say around 1999, would be a breath of fresh air now!

Sage Dating - Not a fan When I joined 'Sage Dating' I paid for 3 months initially, hopeful but realistic. I accessed this from my phone and was not expecting to see so many adverts which appear over what I am trying to see. When you press the cross to exit them it takes you away from what you were trying to look at. There is little information on potential dates and one video posted was of a man satisfying himself. I reported it and it was eventually taken down but this has left an impression although I appreciate you can't control what others do. In cancelling my subscription early it seems I have now forfeited the right to remain on the site until my subscription ends however long you have left. Why is that!! Not happy.

"Hello You"? Don't waste your time if you value your safety Hello You... is the worst dating site that has ever existed. Full of oily chancers, repulsive looking toads, stalkers, aggressive married & attached men masquerading as genuine single men. It is gross & must have as many fraudsters & potential rapists as another well known dating site that's always in the news as yet another former member is sent to prison.

Dateme1st Dateme1st: I've been on here for a while now ,chatting to at least 6 women who apparently want to be with me, but refuse to exchange details ,cancel dates at the last minute and ask why I want to leave the site . Never had these issues on subscription sites and yet you can pay hundreds of pounds a month to have any meaningful conversations! Can anyone honestly say they have physically met and dated people from this site in the UK? If not ..avoid like the plague

AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID EHARMONY is an awful dating site. Please do not be fooled by the 14 day ‘cooling off’ period...... eharmony will fleece you £65 for a pointless personality profile disguised under what they call value compensation!! Not worth a penny. Shameful, unscrupulous scam!