When I first created my zoosk account, the first thing that confused me was that I couldn't actually text anyone without paying for the subscription, first. Which was/still is, pretty frustrating. I paid for it, then things went pretty well after that. Despite there being plenty of fake accounts, I manged to find someone I shared a lot in common with, we talked over zoosk for about a week. Then we actually met up in real life about a week later and the date went very well and now we're very happy together. :) Thanks zoosk... but it's still expensive...