Dating Site Review
Yahoo! Personals
I guess Yahoo! is one of the most recognizable names on the Internet. Whether you use Yahoo! as your portal to the Net, as your email provider or just as a search engine, almost everybody uses Yahoo! on a regular basis.
What you may not know is that Yahoo! also runs one of the largest online matchmaking services for heterosexuals and gay and lesbian people alike on the Net, going by the name of Yahoo! Personals!
Yahoo! Personals can be easily subscribed to using your Yahoo ID (hey, who hasn’t got one?), which is a free service anyway, and you can post your profile, post your best pictures and browse for matches for free as well. If you find a match you would like to contact, you will understandably have to upgrade to a paid subscription.
Luckily, Yahoo! Personals allows you a 7 Day FREE Trial offer to get acquainted with the service before you start getting billed for your subscription. Don’t like what you see? Just cancel the subscription within the seven day period and you will not be charged. You can however take my word for it, you will NOT be disappointed!
The site itself is simple and very easy to use. Posting a profile is no hour-long process, and the search possibilities are almost endless.
Tip: make sure you are as honest as possible when composing your profile. That is the only way to get in touch with the matches you are actually looking for!
Features
The myriad of possibilities to portray yourself to possible matches plus the thorough search engine (hey, this IS Yahoo!) are stunning. You can show yourself using a photo, but you can expand the drawing power to your profile by using voice and video as well.
Contacting a possible match can be done using instant messages and email.
From the Yahoo! Personals site itself:
You can do all of the following things for free on Yahoo! Personals:
- Create a profile with as many as five photos.
- Search and browse the profiles.
- Create multiple Saved Searches.
- Add favorite profiles to your Saved Profiles list.
- Email profiles to a friend.
- Send Icebreakers as a one-time flirt with other members.
- Send Quick Replies as a one-time response to Yahoo! Personals profiles that might interest you.
- Receive Matches by Mail of personal profiles that might interest you.
- Attach your own profile to message replies in the Personals Mailbox.
- Receive Yahoo! Messenger Alerts and My Yahoo! Alerts when you have new messages.
The search engine setup behind Yahoo! Personals is really great. You can start with a simple search form to get the ball rolling. When you get the first results, you can use the search criteria on the left of the screen to further pinpoint your search to the results you are really looking for. In my opinion, this is a lot easier to use than by updating a form every time you want to change your search criteria, plus you can directly see the results on the same page! Great feature!
Serious Dating!
Are you ready done looking for casual dates? Consider upgrading to the Premium subscription model. Premium members are seriously looking for a long-term relationship. They start by taking the Yahoo! Personals Premier Relationship Test, the outcome of which the SmartFit matching system uses to find the most compatible people that have also taken the test.
This way, you will be matched with like-minded people to start your dating adventures.
If you are looking for an easy to use matchmaking service with a huge subscriber base and the power of one of the biggest names on the Net behind it, look no further! Yahoo! Personals is what you are looking for!
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