Frequently Asked Questions

What is BadOnlineDates.com?
BadOnlineDates.com is a new online dating and social networking community combining the best aspects of both worlds with the purpose of connecting singles through their bad date experiences. Members post profiles and share their bad date stories, which are used to match them with people who have similar dating attitudes and beliefs, using keywords or phrases like “poor hygiene” or “showed up late.”

BadOnlineDates.com helps people turn their bad date experiences into great ones.

How does it work?
Bad Online Dates is completely 100% FREE. To join, log in at www.BadOnlineDates.com. Then, post a personal profile with as much information as you like, including basic stats, background, and photos. In addition to what you normally find on dating and social networking sites, BadOnlineDates.com asks you to share your bad date stories. These stories are what will help connect you to other members.

Members can comment on the site’s blog, communicate directly with others, or simply vent about the crappy date they had last night. The point of the site is to empower singles who have become somewhat frustrated and down-trodden by the dating scene and are ready to banish bad dates forever.

Who is Jennifer Kelton?
Jennifer Kelton is the 21st Century dating expert. She is creator of BadOnlineDates.com and author of Don’t Use my Sweater Like a Towel, which documents her personal dating experiences during 12 months spent “in the field.” With a complete wealth of dates to draw from, Jennifer knows what people are attracted to as well as why and how understanding your relationship “hard-wiring” can save you from disastrous dates and a broken heart. Learn more about Jennifer at her online press kit www.JenniferKelton.Presskit247.com; get dating advice at www.DailyDatingAdvice.com, or visit her book Web site at www.DontUseMySweaterLikeATowel.com.

How do bad dating stories connect people?
Jennifer’s concept behind creating BadOnlineDates.com is her certainty that by revealing what you don’t like through a story sheds more light on your true dating colors, likes, and dislikes rather than the more traditional laundry list of eye color, weight, and education.

Meeting someone with similar and comparable bad date stories provides you with a deeper insight into that person’s interests, dating attitude and behaviors right off the get go. Right away, you’ve peeled off that first and important layer of what you know you don’t want.

Do I have to upload a photo?
No. What you include in your profile is completely up to you, once some basic info is provided. However, we recommend you include a photo, as it better introduces you to new people. Ask yourself how many profiles you would pursue if they did not provide a photo?

Do I have to provide a bad date story to join?
No, but we encourage you to delve back into those recent and also repressed, terrible date memories to provide one because it helps us connect you with someone we’re pretty certain you’ll like.

When you share your bad date story, you’re letting other members know what you don’t like and are not looking for in another person when it comes to dating and mating.

This immediately helps to pierce the BS you may have found in other online dating sites where all you had to go on was a person’s photo and profile, which claims characteristics that don’t turn out to be true. It’s so interesting that everyone online is down-to-earth. Everyone has a sense of humor online. Everyone is easy-going online. Well, at least they say they are, right?

If someone is BSing you on what they’re all about, you may not find out till you’re eye-to-eye at the dinner table on your only free night of the week (as they pick their nose). By plainly expressing what you won’t put up with on a date or in a person, you’re weeding out what you don’t want.

The BadOnlineDates.com creator has heard this story over and over and has also experienced it herself; well maybe not a nose picker at the dinner table but something pretty darn close! This community is her remedy to the bad date situation.

So, it’s up to you. Share your bad date story and let the world know what you won’t put up with. We’d LOVE to hear about it! And it may change your life along the way.

Am I guaranteed to find someone?
We will do everything we can to connect you to like-minded people who meet your search specifications and match your dating and life style attitude, but we can’t guarantee love. If we could, we’d also be hitting the blackjack tables in Las Vegas and buying “Mega-Lottery” tickets with no worries.

How is BadOnlineDates.com different from other online dating sites or social networks? Most dating sites concentrate on people’s preferences, and as we pointed out above, everyone is down-to-earth, easy-going and fun to be around in their online profile. BadOnlineDates.com focuses on the flip-side; the behaviors and attitudes you are NOT looking for through the use of members’ bad date stories.

We believe this approach provides a better insight into what a person is looking for in a date or mate.