In this article, we will compare 6FootLover.co.uk to TallSingles.co.uk. It is our unbiased view of both sites to help you make the right decision.
6FootLover.co.uk for those of you who don’t know is a dating site for people over 6 foot tall. That’s both men and women above 6 foot!
Here is an unbiased review of these two dating sites, we have come up with 6 topics you need to consider when choosing which of these sites to join.
1. What do you get for free?
On both sites you get exactly the same services for free:
You can create a profile and upload pictures
You can search for members
You can view other member’s profiles
2. What you get for paid membership
On both sites you get exactly the same extra benefits when you pay for membership:
Read and send messages
Put yourself in the Spotlight
Send gifts to members you like
Chat online with members
Subscribe to mobile alerts
Write your own dating diary
3. Mobile Aps
Both sites have very good mobile applications which are accessible on both iOS and Android.
4. Cost
The membership fees are exactly the same on each site (correct at the time of writing this post):
6 month’s membership – £79.95 (£13.33 per month)
3 month’s membership – £49.95 (£16.66 per month)
1 month membership – £24.95
5. Membership numbers
One of the questions you will want to ask yourself when choosing a dating site is how many members does it have? And more importantly how many members live in your area?
TallSingles.co.uk has 1,514,213 members in the UK, meeting our specific tall membership criteria which are women taller than 5’5 and men over 6’0.
6footlover.co.uk has 6,797 members in the UK.
6. Is there a community?
Having looked at the site, we don’t know what sort of community 6footlover has, but tallsingles.co.uk has two ways to speak to its tall community:
a) A great tall blog
It’s the one you’re reading now, where we share tall dating tips and tricks, news and tall humour.
b) A great Facebook Group
We have a great Facebook group called “What’s the weather like up there” (We hope you like the name as much as us!), it’s great to share tall stories, tall humour, jokes, basically anything tall-related. You can join by clicking HERE.
Thanks for reading this comparison and we hope it means you join the best dating site for you.
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Well put very simply, yes it is! But how do I prove that to you? Well in my mind there are only three ways to answer: Is tallsingles.co.uk any good?
The first is to boast about membership numbers, the second is to show you some success stories, the third is to share some customer feedback and lastly, we can tell you about our tall community.
So here goes…
1. Membership numbers
Membership has increased rapidly since we started the site back in 2010. We now have 1.5 million members and in some cases, we are beginning to beat some of the more mainstream sites in search results.
2. Success stories
Well, it’s hard to say how many people have found relationships on the site as they don’t tend to all tell us all the time so we have no way of knowing.
However, we do hear of people meeting and getting married as when that happens they want to tell everyone and share their dating success with us. Over the X
Since 2010 to date, we have been informed of 35 marriages. Again that’s only what we have been told about so the actual number could be much higher.
Here is one lovely couple’s story:
“Ian and I met on TallSingles.co.uk and we are now very happily married. Your site really gave us both hope that there was something out there for taller single people. Previously I had been trying to meet men in bars and clubs, but it just wasn’t working, plus most of the men I met that way were too “short”. Now I have met and married the tall, dark and handsome man of my dreams and I could not be happier”
Ian and Sue, London
3. Customer feedback
We are very pleased with our customer feedback. We truly care about our members and want to see them find love online. Here are a few of the positive emails we have received from members:
“It’s a fantastic dating site”
“The team behind tallsingles.co.uk understand tall people and want to help in any way they can”
“If you are tall and single this is the site to join!”
“Your site has the feel of a tall community and that’s why I think it is so different to any other dating site out there”
“I’m a 6’6’’ man and on here the women want me, as they all want to meet a tall guy, that’s great news for me”
“My first date on tallsingles.co.uk and I was able to wear my 3-inch killer heels and still be shorter!”
4. A thriving tall community
We have a thriving tall community on Facebook. Tall people hang out in a Facebook group called “What’s the weather like up there” (We hope you like the name as much as us!), it’s great to share tall stories like this one, or tall humour, jokes, basically anything tall-related. You can join by clicking HERE.
So have you made up your mind, you now know how we answer: Is tallsingles.co.uk any good?
Why not judge for yourself if we are any good by joining for free and taking a look around? Or enter your email address in the box below and we will send you a code for one month’s FREE premium membership.
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I’m sure plenty of people will ask themselves, why tallsingles.co.uk? In this article, I’m going to explain why I (all 6’7’’ of me) the CEO, thinks you should join tallsingles.co.uk
Are you tall?
You should choose TallSingles.co.uk if you are tall and single. By tall we really mean above average height. We pride ourselves in making sure that the single people on our site are tall, that’s men and women over 5’5″.
Let me explain why I started tallsingles.co.uk, it will help you decide why tallsingles.co.uk?
Tallsingles.co.uk was started by me, that is a normal guy who just happened to be single and above 6’7’’ (so above average male height).
Having tried the traditional dating methods, that’s trying to meet people in bars, clubs, social groups and hobby groups and not having any success.
I then tried speed dating, still without success as I found that to be way too upfront. I then decided to try internet dating and like most people, I looked at a couple of sites and eventually chose Match.com.
Match wasn’t for me
The problem I found on Match.com was that it didn’t have that “niche” to it. It wasn’t just for the taller person and let’s face it our dating requirements are a little different to the shorter person.Why do I say this?
Why do I say this? Well, it wasn’t specifically for tall people looking to meet tall people, or even tall women looking to meet taller men.
It was just a site for everyone! And tall people aren’t everyone.
It got me thinking, is there a niche site for tall people?
So once I was more used to the idea of being on a dating site, I thought I wonder if there is one for just tall people.Well, there were a few and I have written honest comparisons on them to my site on here. Quite simply they didn’t feel me with a whole lot of joy and they didn’t seem all that tailored to the taller person. So I decided to start my own site, dedicated to tall single people.
Well, there were a few and I have written honest comparisons on them to my site on here. Quite simply they didn’t feel me with a whole lot of joy and they didn’t seem all that tailored to the taller person.
So I decided to start my own site, dedicated to tall single people.
Not only did I build the site, but at the same time I thought, what about a community. That community is FREE for anyone to join.
It’s a brilliant Facebook group called “What’s the weather like up there” (We hope you like the name as much as us!), it’s great to share tall stories like this one, or tall humour, jokes, basically anything tall-related. You can join by clicking HERE.
As we are “niche” and don’t offer all of the benefits of some of the bigger more mainstream sites we are slightly cheaper. But that’s not to say we don’t have a lot of members. At the time of writing this post, we have 1.5 million members all up and down the UK, of all ages, religions and backgrounds. But we all have one thing in common, we are all tall!
So I hope you now know why you should choose tallsingles.co.uk and why we want you to join!
Still undecided? We have some really honest blog posts comparing us to other larger mainstream sites you might have heard of. You can check those out here:
So now we have answered why tallsingles.co.uk, it’s time for you to take action.
So now you know why, what’s stopping you. You can join up for FREE by clicking HERE. And if you drop your email address in the box below we will give you a code for a one-month PREMIUM upgrade, so you can really see what we have to offer!
Our site along with many others allow you to upload more photos than just your profile photos.
These will not be used as your main profile photo, but should someone take an interest in you they can browse these to decide if they want to meet up.
So let’s explore what additional photos you should upload to your profile:
1. Let the background spark a conversation
If you have a nice photo with something of interest in the background (such as a famous landmark, venue, place) it can help the person contacting you to come up with their initial email.
So it’s a winner on two accounts, firstly it helps make you look interesting and secondly it helps someone contacting you to come up with the initial message.
2. Upload an activity shot
Nobody really likes to be with very lazy people.
OK, you don’t have to show yourself as a marathon runner, but if you can show yourself taking part in one of your favourite activities it shows you are definitely not a couch potato.
Perhaps you enjoy hiking, or cycling, or white water rafting? All of these would be great as an activity shot.
3. With friends
It’s nice to see someone socialising, so why not add just the one photo with you at a bar with some friends, or in a pub or perhaps at a special event?
Please please don’t upload any of the ones where you are drunk and crashed out on the couch!
4. Fun/silly photo (only if it’s your thing)
By all means, upload a photo of you doing something silly, but only if it really goes with your personality. People always think that being fun/silly is an attractive feature and to some extent it is, but its definitely not when it’s forced or not true.
Conclusion
So there you have it, that’s our round-up of what additional photos you should upload to your profile.
Don’t forget to go back and take a look at the other articles:
In our last post, we covered things that made a bad profile photo, you can get to that post by clicking HERE.
In this post, we explore what makes a good profile photo?
1. Smile
Show that great smile of yours! Everyone has a great smile and using it on your profile picture will definitely help to get peoples attention.
People are drawn to happy people that’s a fact and so use this to your advantage on your profile picture.
2. Look like someone you’d want to meet
The simple rule is to think about someone you would like to meet as a friend (same sex) and look like them.
3. All natural
Mostly applies to women, go easy on the makeup for your profile photo.
This is just so that you come across natural. The more natural you look the more you will appeal to others.
4. Good lighting
A well-lit photo makes a huge difference. A photo taken outside in natural light will always be much better than one taken indoors under artificial light.
5. Recent
Make sure its a recent photo, don’t use the one from a few years ago when you were a little bit thinner, or you felt you looked slimmer.
If you’re going to meet up with a member for a date, they will probably realise that its an old photo and let’s face it you never want to start a relationship with a lie!
Tips for taking the perfect picture
1. No DIY
Very simple get someone else to take your photo.
2. Don’t pose
Try and make the photo look as natural as possible. The more natural the photo the more people will be drawn to you and your profile. The simple rule is no-body likes fake.
Conclusion
So that’s our roundup of what makes a good profile photo. Don’t forget to check out what makes a bad profile photo if you haven’t done that already (click HERE to read it)
You can also show in your profile, additional photos. In our next article, we look at what additional photos you should upload into your profile.
Don’t forget to check out the other posts that are part of this guide:
Firstly, never ever underestimate the power of your profile photo. It is the first thing that someone will see when they search for members, so it must be good.
A bit like walking into a packed bar trying to find a date the “traditional” way, the first thing someone is usually attracted to is your face and it is no different online!
When we look at what makes a bad profile photo, there are a number of things you shouldn’t do:
1. Fuzzy or bad quality
Make sure your photo is clear.Fuzzy and unclear photos just don’t get looked at as it looks like the person is either a) not bothered about dating and therefore not serious as they haven’t taken the time to take a clear picture or b) wanting to hide their picture and there is no need to do that as if you meet up at some point in the future you will see each other face to face anyway.
Fuzzy and unclear photos just don’t get looked at as it looks like the person is either:
a) not bothered about dating and therefore not serious as they haven’t taken the time to take a clear picture or
b) wanting to hide their picture and there is no need to do that as if you meet up at some point in the future you will see each other face to face anyway.
2. Selfies (or mirror shots)
These just look terrible, usually, the photo is taken at an angle, misses half their face and the lighting is totally wrong.If you take the photo looking in a mirror your arm obscures part of your picture. The simple rule is
If you take the photo looking in a mirror your arm obscures part of your picture.The simple rule is
The simple rule is to get someone else to take the photo.
3. Why the long face?
When have you ever looked at someone looking miserable and thought wow, I really want to meet that person? Answer: Never.Same applies
Same applies to a photo, so think happy and look happy when it is being taken.
4. Photos with someone else
This just confuses the person looking at your profile as they won’t be able to work out which one you are as you’re not going to put arrows on it! Which we don’t recommend!
Conclusion
So that is what makes a bad profile photo, in our next article we will discuss what makes a good profile picture.
Don’t forget to check out Parts II and III on this series of blog posts, the links are below:
What I want to know is “Will other singles like me on tallsingles.co.uk?” (this is a common question we hear!)
The simple answer is you won’t know until you join! It’s as simple as that. But you can help yourself, you need to give yourself every possible chance to get noticed on tallsingles.co.uk.
There is someone out there for everyone.
Here are our top tips for making sure that you get seen and arrange a date on tallsingles.co.uk
1. Upload good photos
Ok we are going to be truthful here, the first impression someone will have of you on a dating site is either:
a) your photo (when searching online) or
b) your photo and the subject line of your message (if you send them a message)
See the one common theme here? It’s your photo.
The simplest advice about your photos is:
Make it recent
Make it clear
Your main picture has to be of you looking straight forward.
Make sure you smile and look happy in the photo
Make sure it’s a good likeness.
No nudity
You can read more about profile photo’s in these blog posts:
Again more to come on this later but you need to make sure you take time to complete your profile.Why?
Why? Well, it’s what our computer programme uses to select you in search results, plus it tells your potential partner what your likes and interests are!
A first section is a number of multiple choice questions, the answers of which help our computer decide on how to display you in the results of a search.For
For example, if you select “movies” as one of your interests, then if someone runs a search and is looking for someone who enjoys “movies”, it means you may come up in those results as you are relevant to that search.
When completing this section you need to make sure you select the correct boxes so you get matched with the right person.
The second section is some free format questions where you can talk about yourself and what you are looking for in your ideal partner. Look out for our blog post on how to complete this. But for now, make it clear, make it interesting and make it relevant.
3. Log on often
Members will look at how frequent you are logging onto the site as it gives an indication as to how serious you are. Someone logging on three times a week is much more serious about dating than someone who is logging in once a month.
4. Don’t be frightened to contact other members
Yes, why don’t you make the make the first move (and yes I am talking to women here too!). If you see someone you like why don’t you send them a wink to let them know you are interested (which you can do with free membership). You can see how they respond.
All of the methods above will try and establish if someone will contact you before you pay your membership.
However, you are not really going to know until you join up. When you join up, you can message members. And that gets you to step 5:
5. Message a member and get a response.
If you message someone with the right email subject, to the right person and they like your photo and profile you WILL get a response.
We will be posting on here the right way to message someone online from how to write the message subject line to the first killer paragraph. This along with the 4 points mentioned above should get you a date!
And remember:
6. Thousands of members are joining every week
So no one messaged you back this week, don’t worry there are a thousand more you can message next week. If dating is a numbers game we have it covered.We have literally thousands of members joining every week, so if no-one messages you this week, there will be 1,000’s of different people to message next week.
We have literally thousands of members joining every week, so if no-one messages you this week, there will be 1,000’s of different people to message next week.
So that’s our roundup
Now don’t forget to also become part of our community. Join our excellent Facebook group called “What’s the weather like up there” (We hope you like the name as much as us!), it’s great to share tall stories like this one, or tall humour, jokes, basically anything tall-related. You can join by clicking HERE.
So will other singles like me on Tallsingles.co.uk? You will only know if you Join!
So go on don’t be frightened, take the first step and sign up for free today, by heading over to tallsingles.co.uk. Oh and by the way, if you enter your email address in the box below we will also throw in one month’s premium membership for FREE!
We want to be as transparent as possible on tall singles. So this is our honest comparison if you stand back and compare Plentyoffish.com to Tallsingles.co.uk
Plentyoffish.com for those of you who don’t know is probably one of the best-known free sites.
It started off as a totally free site which grew membership numbers very quickly. More recently it introduced a paid upgrade which gives additional benefits.
Here is an unbiased review of these two dating sites, we have come up with 6 topics you need to consider when choosing which of these sites to join.
1. What do you get for free?
This is one major difference on TallSingles.co.uk you get the following services for free:
You can create a profile and upload pictures
You can search for members
You can view other member’s profiles
On plentyoffish.com you get all this for free, but crucially you also get to be able to send messages to other members and read messages from other members. This is something that you only get with paid membership on Tallsingles.co.uk.
2. What you get for paid membership
Plentyoffish.com gives you some extra benefits, the most beneficial are as follows:
Upload 16 images to your profile.
Unlock every user’s Extended Profile.
See if your emails were read or deleted.
Show up first on Meet Me!
Experience POF ad-free!
Send three gifts per day.
Stand out in all searches.
See who wants to meet you.
With Tallsingles.co.uk paid membership gives you the following benefits:
Read and send messages
Put yourself in the Spotlight
Send gifts to members you like
Chat online with members
Subscribe to mobile alerts
Write your own dating diary
In order to message people on TallSingles.co.uk you have to join as a paid member and that crucially is the difference between Plentyoffish and any true membership dating site.
There are many reasons as to why TallSingles.co.uk has to make this charge, essentially it is to cover costs. Pleantyoffish.com doesn’t require this fee since it makes its money from paid advertising.
3. Mobile Aps
Both Plentyoffish.com and Tallsingles.co.uk have very good mobile applications which are accessible on both iOS and android.
4. Mainstream V’s Niche
Plentyoffish.com is a mainstream online dating site, accessible to everyone across the UK of any age. TallSingles.co.uk is a Niche dating site, which aims to help tall people find love online. We only invite tall members to join our site, tall just means above average height.We started the site because we understand the issues that tall people have when finding love. We have created a community for tall single people. All our members are tall and we want to embrace being tall and help tall people throughout the UK find love.
We started the site because we understand the issues that tall people have when finding love. We have created a community for tall single people. All our members are tall and we want to embrace being tall and help tall people throughout the UK find love.
We encourage that community feel and have additional resources for tall people, like our tall Facebook community group. You can join that through this link: What’s the weather like up there (hope you like the name of the group as much as we do!)
And we also have a directory of resources for tall people, called tall.directory. You can visit that site HERE.
So what we are trying to say is that you might find there is more of a community feel at tallsingles.co.uk.
5. Commitment
When you sign up for a free dating site there is no commitment there. You might be signing up after coming home from a drunk night and your mates dared you into it.Or you want to see if you can have some fun being chased, but you would rather not pay, so you can join for free.
Or you want to see if you can have some fun being chased, but you would rather not pay, so you can join for free.
But how do you, the serious dater, the one who actually wants to meet someone and start a serious relationship, know who they are so you can avoid them.Do you get my point here? You might actually fancy someone on a free site who has no intention of dating someone in a serious relationship.
Do you get my point here? You might actually fancy someone on a free site who has no intention of dating someone in a serious relationship.
The difference with a paid membership is that someone has actually made that choice. They have decided that they want to meet someone and have paid to do so.With membership of TallSingles.co.uk costing £79.95 and some more mainstream sites costing even more than that. It’s not cheap and making that payment shows commitment, a conscious decision to find someone to date and fall in love with.
With a membership of TallSingles.co.uk costing £79.95 and some more mainstream sites costing even more than that. It’s not cheap and making that payment shows commitment, a conscious decision to find someone to date and fall in love with.
6. Membership numbers
One of the questions you will want to ask yourself when choosing a dating site is how many members does it have? And more importantly how many members live in your area?
TallSingles has 1,514,213 members in the UK, meeting our tall membership criteria.
Unlike TallSingles.co.uk, many dating sites do not want to give away membership numbers and Plentyoffish.com is no different. Due to its free status it will certainly have more members than TallSingles.co.uk, but how many of those are serious about starting a relationship and how many are committed.
Still not decided?
Why not join both sites for FREE and then you can compare their member numbers by searching for members in your area. When you do this, ensure you apply the same search criteria so that you compare the sites on a similar basis.
You can also get a good feel for the site and decide if you would enjoy hanging out on there. Both sites will never force you to upgrade to premium membership.
We would love to know your thoughts when you compare Plentyoffish.com to Tallsingles.co.uk. Just drop them in the comments below.
We also almost forgot to let you know about our fantastic Facebook group for tall people. The group is called “What’s the weather like up there” (We hope you like the name as much as us!), it’s great to share tall stories like this one, or tall humour, jokes, basically anything tall-related. You can join by clicking HERE.
Why not check out our other comparison articles too:
So this is my experience of a tall train journey home.
I was running late from work this evening and hence I arrived at the train station just as my train was about to depart. Now you have to know at this point that the trains are 30 minutes apart from one another, so missing it would mean a 30 minute wait at the station.
As you will see following this my tall train journey home got me thinking, hence the reason for the article.
Tall people should never be late for the train!
So, being so late and not wanting to miss the train, I quickly ran to the platform and hurried to the first carriage, I boarded just as the doors behind me shut!
This is unusual for me as I usually get to the train station in advance of the train. But standing on the train at that point made me think why?
Why do I get to the station 15 minutes before the train departs, well it’s so that I have a choice.
You see looking at the carriage tonight, I worked out there are 6 seats on a carriage out of 54 seats, where a tall person can sit comfortably without having someone sitting opposite them.
If those 6 seats are gone, there are another 2 which are not as good, but where you can sit with your legs in the aisle.
Tall people never get much choice!
So really in order not to have an uncomfortable journey home, there are 8 seats that I can sit on in a carriage with 54 seats on it. That’s not a great percentage.
This particular evening the carriage was almost full!
Scanning the carriage I could see that all the seats that were ideal for a tall person had been taken and there were only two seats left, both of them were the middle seats in rows of 3 with people sitting opposite.So should I take one or stand that was the dilemma and this is a dilemma that only tall people face.
So should I take one or stand that was the dilemma and this is a dilemma that only tall people face.
I have seen shorter people refuse to take a middle seat in a row of 3 as it means that you sit shoulder to shoulder which can make you feel a little squashed, but they could still sit there and not inconvenience everyone sitting in both rows and more importantly the person opposite.
It’s hard to sit opposite someone on public transport if your tall
If I sat there I would have to weave my legs around the person opposite, most probably having to interlock.
You would spend the whole journey trying to stop your knees bumping the people either side and opposite. It would be uncomfortable for them and you and you certainly wouldn’t look anyone near you in the eye, for fear of them being annoyed!
So I decided to stand
So I stood on the train journey home. I pay exactly the same price for my season ticket as everyone else on the train, but I felt uncomfortable at the thought of sitting on one of the two free seats.
I’m not trying to say that anything can be done about it (apart from of course a carriage for only tall people, which has extra legroom seats and a bar!), but it’s just another reason why tall people are different.
I’m sure you tall people out there have plenty of stories like this one! I would love to hear them so feel free to drop them in the comments.
Alternatively, we have an excellent Facebook group called “What’s the weather like up there”, it’s great to share tall stories like this one, or tall humour, jokes, basically anything tall-related. You can join by clicking HERE.
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