Badoo

Social Network Your way to Love...

Badoo is a social network for daters, or that’s what it claims! Available as both an app and a desktop site, Badoo is aimed at a young audience (teens to 20s, mostly) looking for love, casual dating, hookups… even friendship! Initially the company started with Facebook quizzes, and when those became popular they branches out. The site is easy to use and pretty intuitive, as is the app, and everything is set up with mobile dating in mind. To use, Badoo is similar to app-only dating platforms, in fact, but with the added convenience of also being able to access everything from a computer. Onboarding is super simple, with the option to pad things out, and you can also pay for both credits and premium with neither being essential for the basics. You can link Badoo to Facebook on Insta if you want easy access to your own info and pictures, but this isn’t essential either and may only really speed up use on a phone.

Sign up Quickly

All Badoo needs for sign up is your name, age, city and an email address and password. You must then verify the email, and you’re in! A picture (of you) is recommended, and you have to upload one before you can go through users close to you.

Finding Someone To Chat To

Badoo lets you see all users of the gender you’re looking for (which can be both) who are close to you. You can go through these users through a grid of their pictures through the People Nearby tab, or you can get the full dating app experience through Encounters, and either swipe through large pictures or hit like or dislike to get through them. The third option, Live, shows you who’s online right now and streaming video.. You can join the stream and comment, or start your own. When someone likes you, and you like them back they move to the Matched tab.

Favourites and Visitors

With Badoo, you can always see who has been viewing your profile. This will appear under the Visitors tab. You can also favourite users you’re interested in.

Finishing Your Profile

Let’s be honest, completely filled out profiles get more likes. Badoo tells users that people with 6+ pictures get the most likes, in fact, so adding to your gallery is probably a good idea. Beyond that, you can tell potential matches about yourself in your profile, from work to sexuality and relationship status. The bio isn’t compulsory on Badoo, but that’s also a good idea if you want to get noticed. Lots of people just have a cheeky one liner!

Is Paying Worth it on Badoo?

With Badoo, paying is definitely optional. The site works fine with a basic membership. Paying allows you to become a featured member, and to see and message new members first, as well as a few other features. One positive of Badoo’s payment scheme is that there is a lifetime option, and it’s cheaper than a year on many sites. There are also 1, 3 and 6 month options, as well as 1 week.

If you Need to Cancel

Canceling is easy. Go through Settings, and down to Payment Settings to simply cancel payments, or scroll further to Delete Account to get rid of your whole account and profile for good.