Comments on: The Age Factor: Does it Really Matter?

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:11:05 +0000

I think more should be done to promote the senior part of J date as well. I am not sure how you would do it but it really needs to be promoted. I am 65 look about 52, am really healthy, slender, and have been told I am very attractive. Where I live in Charlotte, N.C. there are almost no over 60 year old’s on J Date. They have to be out there, they are just not on J Date. And while I am at it, I wish there was some way to keep J Date really Jewish. I have been contacted by non-Jews, if I wanted to date non-Jews I would be on another site as well.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:07:49 +0000

My mother is recently widowed in 70′s. Technically for a year the whole time her husband was sick she has been alone and not had a social life.
She hasn’t had a date in over 40 years. I put her on Jdate. The pool of men between 70 and 85 is very small. Some haven’t been on line in over 60 days and signed up 3 years ago,(why are they still there, they are not viable) and most are looking for women my age 55-65. I don’t think that many seniors are computer literate and for the seniors, internet dating sites are more a means to try and meet the opposite sex but not to chat back and forth like the younger ones. My mother has never worked a computer, I have to monitor it for her, but after doing a lot of research there are no other activities in West Los Angeles except the Senior Centers that have any kind of activities and not evryone likes that sort of thing.A matchmaker is astronomical if they even have a senior clientele.
I think more should be done to promote the senior part of the Jdate site and if you know a lonely senior put them on and man it for them. Maybe there should be a reduced rate for seniors and more actual activities other than get on and chat. It’s a mitzvah to match up two people, but it’s a double mitzvah if they are seniors. I am at a loss of how to help my mother I wonder if anyone else has the same problem.

By: VW

VW — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:50:52 +0000

From a woman’s perspective I am equally miffed (a bit) when a very young man im’s me as I am an old one. In my mind when they are so much younger they can only be looking to jump in the sack w/ an older woman as a experience to have. I just think the really old guys looking at women far too young have a lot of nerve. But that’s just one perspective.