ChristianDatingForFree.com - Christian Dating Completely Free! 100% Free! Really!

At a time when big business is moving into the online dating scene, even the Christian online dating scene, the success of ChristianDatingForFree.com might seem an enigma. It really is free.

A spokesperson explained, in an interview with Christian Counseling Services.

Please tell me a little about ChristianDatingForFree.com. Is it really completely free? How do you do business?

ChristianDatingForFree.com is really completely free. 100% free, no charges ever, no credit card needed. Yeah, we get that often. It’s funny how people still think there might be a fee at some point. I guess we don’t blame them, as there are so many deceptive practices out there. We operate from support by advertisers and donations.

How should Christians go about selecting an online dating service?

That’s a good question. Ideally Christians should simply go where God leads them. However, if you want a more specific answer, there are in fact many criteria that make a Christian dating site - or any dating site for that matter - good or bad.

First off, one must decide if they want to pay for the service or if they want to go the free route. We get many compliments that we manage and safeguard our site far better than even paid sites, so it is questionable whether paying for the product gives you a better user experience.

Then one must determine if they like the site. Is it easy to use? Are there good Christians to meet and mingle with? Are there useful functions and tools available on the site?

We are proud of the many functionalities we have developed over the life of CDFF and think our members find the site easy to register with and use.

We not only have many interesting features like the ability to add favorites, see who has added you as their favorite, see if someone has read your message, add up to eight photos, block people who smoke or drink alcohol, send private messages and winks, see if someone has viewed your profile, specify specific Christian denominations and even search for one or many, talk with other members live in one of six different chat rooms, speak live to other members via instant message by ChristianDatingForFree instant messenger, join ongoing Christian discussions in the chat forums, but we are constantly updating the site to integrate more fun and useful functions.

Many Christians are fearful of online dating. Are they right to feel concerned?

Are many Christians really fearful of online dating? I'm not sure that “many” are “fearful”. However, the ones that are do, in fact, have a right to be concerned. We all should be concerned. It is of course “the internet” where bad people can do bad things.

Perhaps concerned is not the right word - those engaged in online dating should always be aware and navigate the first steps of communication with caution.

Let's be honest though - we have all seen the news stories about online scams where people have been lied to and even manipulated into sending money. These are real stories and online dating is constantly under assault by these despicable people. Christians are even more heavily bombarded due to their giving, generous, selfless, forgiving and sometimes naïve nature.

The climate of online dating is one where true love, passion and eternal happiness can be found. There is no doubt. Many have found a love they never knew possible on ChristianDatingForFree.com. One must however take the necessary precautions in meeting others online, especially in the initial steps.

We recommend not giving out your personal information and email address until you feel very comfortable with the person. We recommend staying within our private messaging tool and sending messages that way. We can have a record of all correspondence and can review it if necessary.

We even provide the ability to instant message each other within the site and another feature is the ability to call the other person by phone, calling into a third party phone number. That way they don’t even get your phone number via caller ID.

Some of these precautions are over the top and can be seen as paranoia, but they are there if our CDFF community feels the need to use them. We will continue, as we always do, to do our very best to safeguard the website 24 hours a day, day and night.

However we may not catch every single negative element or maybe we give someone the benefit of the doubt at first. Either way there is no 100% guarantee of taking out the scammers and riff-raff. But we never stop working at it and we believe our members think we do a pretty good job.

One final note on being careful with online dating: never send anyone any money ever!

What are some of the most important words of advice you can offer for Christians seeking a partner online?

Convey the importance of Christ in your life to your prospective partner. Be honest and describe yourself with sincerity. Upload multiple current photos of yourself, some with friends or family…and smile! At least in one of them…

Don’t be afraid to initiate conversation or send a wink - and don’t be impatient; give it time, don’t get discouraged if you don’t find matches right away. If you're not having luck, get involved in conversations in live chat rooms or chat forums and make friends there.

What are some of the mistakes that Christians make when searching for a partner online?

I hate to call them mistakes. Good people shouldn’t in any way be scolded for pre-judging others.

Unfortunately a level of scrutiny must be applied to all budding personal relationships that form online. Christians are open, welcoming and giving people who sometimes need a more heightened awareness of the potential perils that can be encountered online.

So the answer is that some need to unfortunately apply a healthy level of caution before opening their hearts.

Is the depressed economy having any sort of impact – positive or negative – on your business?

Well, interestingly enough we are doing OK, and I think one of the reasons is that we are 100% free! How’s that for an economic stimulus?! We realize that most of us are tightening our belts and an extra $20 or $30 a month for online dating is out of the question for a lot of people.

We are just happy that we can provide a quality service to Christian singles for no cost in these tough times.

Is online dating a growing business? What kinds of developments might we expect in online dating?

Online dating will always be a growing business because love and the pursuit of happiness will never die. However, many who get involved in online dating as a business get a rude awakening to the major technological and management challenges.

Multiple dedicated servers and high-level data transfer, millions of page-views, database issues, hacker security and firewalls, monetizing with ad servers, multi-level marketing, critical email deliverability, managing scammers and deleting/banning members hourly, optimizing lean programming code to provide a fast website even at high traffic times - there are endless complicated and extremely costly tasks and hardware issues.

We work very hard to stay ahead of the curve and keep everything well maintained while constantly preparing for and managing growth.

ChristianDatingForFree.com can't speak for the entire online dating world but we aspire to be the best at what we do while providing the highest quality website for our members. With a current active membership of 68,000+ members we are constantly growing and always implementing fresh new features.

We don’t know about what to expect with online dating as much as we know what to expect with Christian dating: we expect to maintain a climate with a high level of moral standards and decency where good Christian singles can meet and possibly fall in love.

As they say - the more things change the more they stay the same. ChristianDatingForFree.com will continue to implement the latest developments in technology and functionality but when it all comes down to it we simply pray that single Christians find each other in fellowship, friendship and love as we have for centuries.

Thank you very much.

April 23rd, 2009

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