Guest membership is FREE, but in order to
access all features you need to upgrade to Full membership, the cost of
which is as follows (however, prices are only given in £Sterling
and prices are not available in USD):
2 months - £16.99
3 months - £19.99
For a full list of the benefits of full
membership, see the "Joining FiftyAlready" section below!
Features:.
A
devoted site for UK and Irish users!
Browse other members' profiles for free
as a standard member, allowing you to view unlimited profiles!
Build and edit your own profile
Search by location (postcode, city, region)
or by username!
Email, chat & instant message with other
members!
Discuss interests and dating with other
users in dedicated message boards.
Send favored users your contact details and
hidden photo if you wish!
Upload photographs to your profile for
maximum effect!
Block unwanted users from contacting you,
and create a "favorite list"
Anonymity and identity protection - you can
provide as much or as little information about yourself as you like.
1-2-1 group chat, fast chat and personal
messaging
Helpful dating advice and expert safety
information.
Extensive FAQs dealing with many issues -
payment, dating advice, site usage!
Dedicated email help for problems that can
not be dealt with using FAQ's
Joining FiftyAlready:
Joining FiftyAlready is easy,
requiring
users to create a username and password, provide
some basic information about themselves (gender, 'looking for', date of
birth, age, height, ethnicity, religion, occupation, children/desire
for children) and of course,
submit a valid email address.
To complete your profile you need to write a
quick introduction to yourself (your hobbies, interests and what you're
looking for), and also a title for your profile.
FiftyAlready has two different
membership
options, Guest membership and Full membership, and the differences
between the two are as follows:
Guest
membership
Build a profile and add a photograph
(both a hidden and main photo)
Browse and search listings of members
Add / Update your "favorite things"
Add profiles to your shortcuts
See whose shortcuts your profile
features on
See who is active in chat application
See who is active in "fastchat"
Adjust your settings
Send and open preset messages
Send personal messages with no contact
details
Send your hidden photo with personal
messages
Block members from contacting you
Full
membership
All of the benefits of guest membership,
plus...
Send personal messages with contact
details
Open personal messages
Send chat messages
Send your hidden photo with chat messages
Open chat messages
Use Instant Messaging
1-2-1 group chat
Read message posts
Reply to message posts
Start new message threads
Performing a Search on FiftyAlready:
Searching using FiftyAlready.com is straightforward, by simply
clicking the "search" button from the main page you can access the
search options available on FiftyAlready:
Postcode Search -
search by distance to your postcode or another postcode, and filter
results by sex, age and length of membership.
City Search - See a
full list of members by their nearest city, sorted alphabetically.
Regional Search -
search by region, and filter results by town, sex, age and length of
membership.
Username Search -
search by a specific username
Feeling Lucky? -
randomly select a member and presents their profile!
Editor's Verdict:
As the only site we reviewed that was dedicated
solely to a UK and Irish user base, FiftyAlready will have a particular
popularity with UK users. It has a range of features common to dating
sites, such as instant messaging, message boards, chat, photo profiles
and also some less common features, such as "favorite things" and profile
shortcuts. The site, while functional, certainly lacks the
attractiveness that is present in other senior dating sites, and it also lacks many of the advanced features present in our top 5 senior dating sites.
Profiles are relatively simple to create, with the site asking
the range of standard questions. Searching however, leaves a lot to be
desired, with the search criteria being limited to only geographical
factors or a specific username search. This is probably the case
because of the limited UK/Ireland user base, and also, because the site
likely has far fewer active members than other senior dating sites we reviewed. Even so,
this limited search functionality would not be so problematic for a user living in the UK/Ireland as
the chances of finding a suitable match are presumably higher. Still,
it would be nice to be able to search by interests, keywords, body type
etc, as this information is available on user profiles.
Fifty Already offers a range of communication methods, though its
search capacity and its less than sleek look makes this site less
attractive than other similar sites. Also, while the limited UK/Ireland-only geographical scope of this site may be advantageous to some prospective
members, it likely provides less value for money, even for these users,
than other sites, and it is for these reasons that this site scores less
highly than other sites in our list of reviews.
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