My Mate Your Date - review

Ever feel that true love is just beyond your grasp? That the right person is close, but you just can’t seem to get to meet them. Well My Mate Your Date may be able to help. By limiting its matching offer to people you have some connection with, My Mate Your Date offers an interesting new variant on the dating game. It uses your Facebook account to identify the all the people that are friends of your friends and then selects suitable matches from this group.

By taking this approach, My Date Your Mate hopes to address concerns that many online daters have about the randomness, or impersonal nature of the introductions they receive. This more organic approach aims to make you feel that the dates you go on are more relevant to your real life. In addition, users feel more secure knowing that the people they are chatting to and meeting, are within their broader circle of friends.

This kind of friendship dating does come with the requirement of slightly higher levels of disclosure. The whole idea is that you meet people you know, and this open and upfront approach may not be for everyone. However, it does ensure that you know who you’re talking too and makes it much less likely that they are scammers or cheaters (clearly this is not a suitable service for people looking for secret affairs).

The service is very easy to register with and it takes less than a minute to set up your profile using your Facebook account. The design and interface are simple and appealing. There are no distracting features, but rather a straightforward and clear layout that focuses on matching and messaging.

My Mate Your Date is a relatively new company based in London.

The service is free to use!