Find Friends at Consonance (Gleichklang)

Theoretically, social networks like Facebook and others are ideally suited for meeting friends. In fact, we spend more and more time on Facebook & Co. At the same time, numerous findings over many years show that something is often not quite right with these “friends”:

But with friendship, more is not more — it’s less.

The internet undoubtedly offers diverse opportunities to meet people and find friends. But the search for friends online is not only made easier by anonymity, but also more difficult. Countless profiles in chats or forums are not actually genuine — many people are just having fun or even acting with dishonest intentions. Separating the wheat from the chaff is one of the most difficult challenges in searching for friends online.

The Solution at Consonance (Gleichklang)

At Consonance, the problem of “crazies,” “decoys,” “picture scrollers,” “multiple profiles,” and “spammers” is solved by setting the bar for membership very high:

• Because we do not allow free memberships. Finding friends at Consonance requires the willingness to pay a moderate but obligatory membership fee. This deters people with dishonest intentions and ensures that Consonance brings together a circle of serious, authentic people genuinely seeking friendship. This leads to very high prospects of successfully completing the friendship search at Consonance.

Meeting friends and finding friends at Consonance is different from the various chat systems, communities, and forums on the internet:

At Consonance, you don’t scroll through profiles yourself — instead, friends who match you are suggested based on the evaluation of hundreds of individual pieces of information. A friendship suggestion is made when there is a high compatibility of lifestyles. Because this is the prerequisite for a lasting, sustainable friendship.

Projects and Communities at Consonance

Another area of possibilities at Consonance concerns projects and communities:

• Here, the focus is not on 1:1 contact. A shared topic connects the members of a group. A group friendship with internal group cohesion emerges. At the same time, individual friendships develop within the group. Romantic relationships can also develop.

At Consonance, there are two paths to finding friendship: individual matching based on lifestyle and life goal compatibility, as well as community contact lists that all users of the friendship search can also use. More than 1,000 projects and community ideas are listed here. Interested individuals can get in touch with the relevant people. You can also publish your own ideas for projects or communities in the community contact lists.

With this dual access, there are very high prospects at Consonance that truly valuable friendships will emerge.

Search Criteria for Finding Friends

Consonance is the only friendship agency that, in the first and most important step, collects detailed preferences from its members for the friendship search and takes these into account when deriving friendship suggestions.

Here is a brief explanation of the individual preferences we ask about:

• For age, you can specify a minimum age, a maximum age, and an optimal desired age. The location of future friends can be specified internationally, continent-related, country-related, or federal state-related. Additionally, it is possible to specify a kilometer search radius from three starting points. For gender, you can search for men, women, or both men and women as friends. There is also a specific search for intersex individuals, who have characteristics of both genders. Additionally, a specific search for transsexual men and women as friends is also possible.
• Regarding the sexual orientation of future friends, you can search for heterosexual friends, gay male friends, and lesbian friends. Of course, you can also search for all sexual orientations for friendship.
• In the areas of health, illness, and disability, health behavior is recorded — for example, searching for non-smokers as friends. Acceptance for friendships with physically or mentally disabled people is also assessed. Additionally, acceptance for friendships with people suffering from physical or mental disorders is recorded. Furthermore, willingness or desire for a friendship with an HIV-positive person or someone living with AIDS is inquired about. Through these acceptance questions, we ensure that even members with disabilities or illnesses have very good prospects of finding friends at Consonance. Rejection and disappointment are avoided.
• Consonance enables vegetarians and vegans to specifically search for vegetarian or vegan friends. Of course, this also applies to vegetarian or vegan female friends. Many vegetarians or vegans have the desire to gain people as friends who also live vegetarian or vegan lives. At Consonance, the chances for vegetarians and vegans are very high to meet other vegetarian or vegan friends and build lasting friendships with them. This is all the more true because vegetarians and vegans are strongly overrepresented at Consonance compared to the general population. Approximately 25% of Consonance members are vegetarians, and approximately 5% of our members are vegans. Consonance is thus a leading provider for matching Veggie friends.
• Another area that plays a major role in friendships is religion and spirituality. Friends want to exchange ideas with each other and experience meaningful things together. At Consonance, we ask all members about their positive or negative attitudes toward the following areas: atheism/agnosticism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, esoteric spirituality, and open (free) spirituality. We also ask how important it is that the future friend shares one’s own attitudes or not. On this basis, we bring together people as friends whose views on religious topics harmonize with each other.
• At Consonance, the majority of members care about social justice, environmental protection, human rights, and animal welfare. However, there are differences in the extent to which members desire a friendship in which they can actively engage for these causes. Therefore, we ask how important it is to find friends who want to work together for an ecological lifestyle or for the protection and rights of animals. We bring together those members as friends who also want to use their friendship for social engagement.
• There are hobbies that are so time-consuming that they can both form the basis of a friendship and also strain it. To avoid conflicts and create a good foundation for a lasting friendship, Consonance asks whether one is also looking for friends who devote a great deal of time to topics such as computers & internet, cars, motorcycles, motorsports, or soccer. Only when acceptance matches here does a friendship suggestion occur.
• Pet ownership is another area that is considered at Consonance as an inclusion and exclusion criterion. Specifically, we ask whether the future friend may keep dogs, cats, rodents, birds, reptiles and amphibians, or insects and spiders. Ethical aspects or allergies can lead to different answers here, which we systematically take into account.
• In the area of education, members can also formulate preferences for their search for friends. At Consonance, you can find both academic and non-academic friends. You can also indicate whether you would like to meet artist friends.
• Furthermore, Consonance asks whether there is interest in finding a travel companion. Possible types of travel and travel regions (continent-related) are recorded. It is also possible to limit the friendship search exclusively to finding a travel companion.

Only when all preferences match without exception and mutually are two members suggested to each other as future friends at Consonance. Due to this high selectivity, the number of suggestions is significantly reduced, and it may take some time before the first friendship suggestion is made. However, the quality of the suggestions increases accordingly. This increases the prospects of meeting and finding real friends at Consonance. If you stay with it long enough, a new friendship will emerge.

The Spirit of the Consonance Community

Consonance is not just any meeting forum or any run-of-the-mill friendship agency — rather, at Consonance, specific people come together who come from a left-liberal, left-alternative, social-democratic, or socialist societal spectrum and are characterized by tolerance toward diverse lifestyles. Through our explicit external presentation and also through an optionally offered suitability test, we ensure that the vast majority of our members fit this spirit and thus form a truly special community. This in turn increases the prospects of all members of finding real friends here.

Dishonest entries, dishonest intentions, multiple profiles, spammers, and dead profiles are the blight of friendship searches on the internet — but not at Consonance! Because at Consonance, every member has proven their seriousness by paying a moderate but obligatory membership fee. This distinguishes Consonance from all other communities, forums, and chat systems on the internet where one can find friends. This creates a uniquely high profile quality at Consonance that significantly increases the chances for members to build new friendships.

Because at Consonance, only members with serious intentions are present, you will ultimately achieve success in your search for friendship here. As a member of Consonance, it is truly only a matter of time until you have found new friends:

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