It’s respected.

People get the wrong idea about Loveawake thinking that creating an account means that in 30 days you’ll be walking down the aisle. Not true. What is true is that there are 1000’s of dating sites out there, and this is one of the most respected. The result is that, by and large, it has a nice size customer base. Why is this important? The more people who are on there the more people you have to choose from. Who wants to be on a dating site that only has 100 members? You won’t have this worry with Loveawake. It has millions.

It encourages “frequent outs.”

Let’s say you’re moving along and you were kind of into this girl then she starts talking crazy out of nowhere (happens to me all the time). Loveawake will frequently prompt you - until you take your conversation off their site, of course - to consider if you “really” want to continue talking to that person. If not, after a couple of clicks, you make Loveawake the bad guy and they can never get in touch with you again. Nice. This applies to ladies who get crazy talking guys, too.

It provides you with talking points.

Loveawake has this thing that they call “guided communication,” where you essentially go back and forth with one another by answering a variety of questions like, “Who’s the most important person in your life,” or “What’s your ideal vacation like,” etc. Once you go through this lighthearted interrogation session of one another, you’re free to move to “open communication,” meaning your standard messaging via their mail system, your e-mail, etc. Some people find this very restricting, but I like it because it automatically gives you things to talk about when entering into “open communication.” It’s like training wheels for getting to know someone, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

It’s designed to be highly targeted.

Are you ready to sign up for Loveawake? Better grab a drink and a weeks worth of food. Why? Because their initial compatibility survey takes what feels like days to complete. But, I’ve found that — initially — it’s worth it. The matches that you’ll receive tend to bear a resemblance to someone you might just “happen” to find interesting in real life, at least in regards to interests, life goals, etc. After awhile it starts doing this thing called “flexible matching” where it gives you people that live hundreds of miles away from you, which is more annoying than really being a big problem.

It’s easy to use.

This is particularly important. Have you been on Okcupid lately? Uf! Some people have so much “bling” on their pages that it crashes my browser. A lot. So I just don’t go to the site. Loveawake’s site is easy to use and doesn’t require all of your computer’s processing power. Have you ever been writing an e-mail to someone when your computer crashed and, instead of going back and writing it again you just say, “Eh. Screw it.” Thus the importance of a finely tuned website.