Yellow Jacket Singles

Yellow Jacket Singles is a dating site that is aimed at the single students, alumni and fans of the Georgia Institute of Technology. While you don't have to be affiliated with the school in any way to use this site you should at least live in the general area of the site. The main reason for this is because almost all of the members of this site live in or around the school so if you are not in that area there will not be any members near you and the site will not be of much use.

I found the site to have a nice, clean and basic design that made navigating it very easy. When signing up for your free membership you can choose to fill in all of the details for your profile, or you can opt (like I did) to skip them and fill them in later. I like that they give you this choice because I prefer to be able to check a site out and see if it is something I want to use before I spend the time and effort getting my profile just right. The site offers you a couple of different search options to help you find other members. The basic search allows you to specify an age range and a distance from you and sorts the members using that criteria. The more advanced option is called Smart Match. It takes the details from your profile and uses them to match you up with compatible people. You can search the site, create your profile and read other people's profiles with your free membership. You only need to buy a paid membership if you want to contact people or read emails sent to you.

As much as I liked the search options they are the only real feature on this site. There are no chat rooms, instant messaging options or user forums. I was pretty disappointed with the lack of these extra features.

What it boils down to with this site is that it is all about where you live. If you don't live near the school then realistically the site will have very little value to you. Most people will fall into this category which is why I rated the site on the lower end. However, if you do live near the school or you are affiliated with the school then you should give it a try. There are around 800 members in the site and they all will live in your area so you have a good shot at finding someone that you are into.