SUN CITY — The website SilverSingles brags about 381,000 new users signing up each month.
That’s a lot of opportunities for West Valley singles and others to meet an excellent match.
It’s also a lot of opportunities to meet a mismatch, or a date that ends in disaster.
Susie Hackett said she and her husband, Don, of Sun City West met on the dating site Match.com in 2012 and ended up getting married about three years later.
Both from northern California, they lived in separate West Valley gated communities when they met online, so it’s unlikely they would have met by chance in person.
Pros and cons
Hackett said she found some pros and cons to dating sites designed or focused on seniors, such as SilverSingles.com. Even the most heavily regulated so-called regular dating sites, such as Match.com, are where perpetrators of various scams are lurking, so it’s important to study profiles and learn as much as one can about a potential date.
“It usually takes some homework” to find a quality partner on a dating site, Hackett said.
While some seniors might not be as into paperwork as the Hacketts were, that was how they went about things in 2012.
They each reviewed possible matches online and printed out information on 25 singles in the area who might make good matches.
“Don was on the last of my 25 printouts,” Hackett said. “But I was the first one in his stack of 25.”
Hackett, who was divorced after being…
