Fighting Illini Singles

Fighting Illini Singles is a dating site that focuses on the students, staff and alumni of the University of Illinois. This is a site that is very location dependent which means those that live near the university, or who are involved with the school, will get some good use out of the site. Those that do not live in that area will find little of use on this site.

I liked the design of the site. It is clean and simple and very easy to navigate. I found getting my free membership to be a fast, easy thing to do and while the profiles can be very detailed they let you fill in most of that detail at your leisure. There are two different search engines that help you find people to meet. The basic search allows you to search by age range and distance from you (down to as little as within five miles of you). The advanced search known as Super Match uses the details from your profile to better match you with people. You can use these search engines and browse people's profiles with your free membership, but you will have to buy a paid membership if you want to contact anyone directly.

The big letdown of the site is that there are no extra features like instant messaging or chat rooms. Many dating sites now offer this, but this one does not and that is too bad.

When I gave this site its final score I had to look at it as how useful the site will be to everyone out there. The answer is that it won't be very useful at all to most people. But, if you are involved with the school or you live in the area that it is in, then this site gains a lot more use and you should at least take a few minutes to get a free membership and give it a look.