This is: Badoo.com

Badoo.com started out in 2006, with main offices in Central London and there are now 250 million users all over the world, it has evolved into the largest social network for meeting new people locally in the world, especially through Facebook. Facebook is about maintaining existing contacts while badoo.com concentrates on making new contacts - primarily singles, of course. ;)

The site is an absolute success and ultramodern - you will be amazed. A new class of singles community!

The “Spotlight" and "Rise Up” features are particularly exceptional!

You can even download Badoo Desktop to set your current location and see how close others are to you or their modern iPhone-App to take Badoo with you everywhere.

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This is: meetme.com

MeetMe is a dating site that is blurring the line between a traditional online dating site and a social network and boasts 40 million users. MeetMe.com uses a variety of social discovery apps, which help you connect with friends and family members. They also specialise in helping you meet people near you with their “local search” tool.

What is pretty cool is that you can browse and search members and see what they are up to thanks to their status feed. You can also take part in video chat and play games with other members. However, to use most of these services you will have to buy credits. For example, by using credits you can get seen by others in the spotlight on the home page, get 200+ extra views in match, get more comments and likes, make more friends in Friends Suggestions and increase your popularity.

Additionally, MeetMe.com is available via your mobile phone. Not only can you download their iPhone, iPad, Android app, but you can also point your mobile web browser to m.meetme.com, and meet others no matter wherever you are!

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This is: Facebook.com

"Facebook" is what the year books of universities are called in the USA - everyone gets one in order to know who is who. After 10 years one comes across it again and remembers the good old days and fellow students...

Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg, the whole world now knows the joys of Facebook and what it can bring. Currently, you can now expect to come across any of a whopping 1.49 billion active monthly users and that number does not seem to be stopping. While not exactly something we'd recommend for finding singles, Facebook has helped spawn many dating sites such as Zoosk.

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This is: LinkedIn.com

LinkedIn is an online network for maintaining and establishing professional contacts.

There are more than 100 million professionals using LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas and opportunities.

Since LinkedIn reveals the status of men, it is particularly fascinating to single women. Women can in some cases even see for which company a potential partner is working ;-)

Flirting is done in secret and with class! Inconvinient: the site does not have a clear identification for single status.

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