Thousands of people living in Cyprus have an account at a dating site and everybody is visiting a dating site for a certain reason. To find a new love, just to chat with somebody or to find a partner for a sport or hobby. Still there are many people who don't want to sign up at a dating site because they are afraid or have many questions. We will help you with answering a few important questions and to take your last doubts away, because many people who found their partner on a dating site are now living happily together.

What is internet dating?

Internet dating is finding people and meet them online like you do normally in a bar or sport club. To be able to find these people you can sign up at a dating site. You can open an account for free or there are some sites where you have to pay to open an account. The most dating sites will let you open an account for free and to get access to some features you need to pay a small monthly fee.

Once you opened an account on a dating site you are able to search via a system in the datingsite. You can search fast with just mentioning if you are looking for a man or women and which age range or do an advanced search where you can select the hair color, eyes color, education, location, etc. This will give you off course more targeted search results.

Once you found somebody you can contact this person via different communication tools like chat or email. You don't have to give your email address or any other contact details because you will use a mail form controlled by the dating site.

Now you have to wait for feedback from the person and start chatting when he/she send you an email or accept your chat request. Some people will just chat a bit and say goodbye and other people exchange contact details like phone number and go for the next step to meet each other in person. Once this happens the role of the dating site is finished and resulted in a new match.

How do you present yourself

The most important advice we can give you is honesty. Be honest because when you are lying about things you are not honest to the other person but also not to yourself. If your aim is to really find somebody for a relation it's no use to start lying from the beginning because in the end your partner will find out the real truth.

But this doesn't mean that you have to inform people about every details of your life. Be careful what information you give and we advice you not to mention company name where you are working or be to fast with giving your address details or phone number.

You can also think of a nickname instead of your real name and tell your real name once you meet the person or when you are chatting through the dating site.

Many people don't want to upload a photo but there are many advantages to have a photo in your dating profile. First you will get a faster response and there are always people looking for a person like you. If you don't want to show a photo because you are afraid that people recognize you we advise you to explain in your profile that you are willing to send a photo after request. In this case you can fist study the person who ask for the photo.

Are dating sites free?

As we said before dating sites can offer different solutions for you as a member. Most dating sites you can open an account for free and search for people but once you want to contact somebody or you want to see more photos or videos you need to pay for a monthly subscription. You can do this via Paypal which is the most secure payment method online.

The big advantage of a dating site where you have to pay is the fact that most people are serious about finding somebody else and you don't get many people who just want to look around without the intention of finding somebody.

Can I trust the people on a dating site?

Most dating sites have tools to find people who abuse a dating site and will immediately block this person. You can also report somebody if you don't trust this person and the dating site will do an investigation to be sure that the site stays reliable and a safe place to date.

But off course like in the offline world there is a chance that you meet somebody who have different intentions than you have. The big advantage of an online site is that you can just close the chat or don't reply to his emails anymore which is more difficult in the offline world once you meet somebody and he knows more about you. So we always say that there are definitely people on dating sites which you can't trust but the tools to avoid these people are much better than in the offline world.

Since opening an account on a dating site is free why not give it a try and look around if this is something for you. But we warn you, many people did the same and are not single anymore!