If you elect to date through a dating website, whether it is a general one or a specialized one, you will be expected to sign up for an account. This entails giving the website certain identifying information, though you can choose how much of it is shared with other people. This is to help keep misrepresentation to a minimum as well as to let the site owners know what demographics are using the site so that they can better update it to meet the needs of those groups. Most sites ask at least a few questions about what you are looking for in a particular mate, and some even ask a large number of questions to give you as close to an exact match as they can.