Our
alphabetical reviews of online matchmaking and dating services are designed to
help you easily find a matchmaker by name. You'll never know what great
services we have reviewed until you read our descriptions. Feel free to visit as many
as you want. The more you look at, the better informed your decision
will be when it becomes time to be a member. Now then, STOP reading this and
start reading about the sites below!
WHAT
THEY SAY:There are thousands of men and women inside
date.com. They're single and looking to meet the right person. Checking
out all of them will take you a really long time, so we are going to
help you. By answering a few questions about yourself, and telling us
what you are looking for, we can help find your perfect date. So, are
you ready to meet someone?
WHAT WE FOUND: Date.com
is a great service that includes private email and public and private
chat rooms for members as well as a detailed profile form for your
personal ad. A lot of flexibility is available for your answers to the
profile questions, which will help greatly in meeting the right person
for you. Once completed, it should take between 10 and 20 minutes, you
will have access to Date.com, including the chat rooms and forums, but
you have to become a paid member to send and receive messages. Did I say
that this is a great service? It is. You can email in your picture, if
you have one ready, to be added to your profile and let others see you.
Adding your picture will increase the amount of messages you get and the
number of people you'll meet. The main service is for straight
relationships, but there is also sections for gay and lesbian members.
More features include virtual gifts that you can send and receive free,
a powerful search feature for you to find someone that interests you and
a weekly poll.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Place
your ad for free, become a paid member to make contact. Private email
and public/private chat rooms, pictures can be added to your profile.
Straight, gay and lesbian sections for free and paid members.
RELATED CATEGORIES:America
- Britain -
Canada
- International -
Free
Services - Same Sex
WHAT
THEY SAY:Personals
and Dating by Dream Mates is the web's favorite meeting place.
It has never been easier to meet people. You will soon find that
many others in your area are looking for that someone special
just as you are. Don't waste anymore time, enter the site now
and meet your Dream Mate.
WHAT WE FOUND: Featuring the personal ads of people looking for
casual dating, romance and long-term relationships and intimate
encounters, you’ll find a wide variety of people here. Search
the ads by City and State/Province for the US and Canada. Search
the rest of the world by country. When you are ready to join and
place your own personal ad you’ll find the sign-up easy to
understand and a comprehensive form to help you describe
yourself and the person you are looking for. Take your time, you
want everything to be just right, remember, this is the first
impression that others will make of you. Women searching for a
man (straight relationships only) get a free membership with full access
when they join. Receive and reply to messages others
send you for free, become a paid member to send a message to
someone you want to meet before they find you.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free
to place your personal ad and answer messages you have received, purchase message
credits to send messages to free and paid members so they can
reply to you for free. A great search feature
and lots of members make Dream Mates a great place to start
looking for that special someone. Straight and same sex
personals welcome here. RELATED CATEGORIES:
Canada
- International -
North
America
WHAT
THEY SAY:Don’t just meet your match. See them too. This premier online dating
site offers the ability to connect with other site members via live
video by means of special interest and lifestyle channels. DateCam's
website allows users to seek out and meet potential matches in a casual
environment with the benefit of real-time live video and chat.
WHAT WE FOUND:
DateCam is a very unique online dating service. Never before have we
reviewed an online service that has minimum computer requirements that
you have to meet before you can join. But here it is: Internet Explorer
or Netscape versions 4+; 400 mhz; 64 megs RAM; Flash Player 6. You’ll
also want to have a web camera and a microphone hooked up. You will be
using the chat and live video features quite a bit, either in one of the
many chat rooms, or while watching/broadcasting video streams of other
members and the minimum requirements are suggestions to make the
experience more enjoyable for everyone involved. (No one wants your
computer locking up, do they?) Begin your visit by signing up for the
free trial, since you really can’t do much more that check out a random
cam or look at the newest members (Fresh Faces) and checking that you
have the correct version of Flash Player installed (it’s a free viewing
program that will install automatically if you don’t have it yet). Free
membership allows you to post your profile, text and video, and join in
at the chat rooms as well as broadcast live video to other members. If
you want to have private video rooms, private chats or send and reply to
messages, you’ll need to become a premium member. You need to have a
webcam to make the most of DateCam, and since you have a camera (or can
get one here) your profile requires you to also include a picture of
yourself. Up to 8 pictures and one 30 second video can be included in
your profile and you will have many questions to answer about yourself
that will allow others to effectively search for you and get to know you
by what information you have revealed. They will also be able to view
your profile through links in the chat rooms, so be sure that you do
complete the profile questions. Through the use of Flash MX, you are
very easily broadcasting to any of the general chat rooms (we were
broadcasting and chatting within 5 seconds of entering one of the chat
rooms), the drawback here is that chatting is typing chats, audio is not
yet available due to bandwidth concerns. As a paid premium member you
will have 15 hours per month of video watching time to allow you to meet
other members and view their posted video profile. Features include
plenty of chat rooms that include video streams and hosted (moderated)
chat themes on a regular basis, E-Notes (how you communicate with other
members), DateMail (how you receive messages), your DateBook (where you
can keep notes on other members, who’s profile you’ve visited, who has
visited yours, etc.). People that have high speed internet connections
will find this service easy to use, although with the use of Flash MX
anyone using at least a 56K modem should have no problems getting full
use of the DateCam service.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free
to join, post your profile with picture and video, and join the live
chats. Become a premium member to send and reply to messages and watch
other member’s video profiles. Straight and same sex personal ads
available.
RELATED CATEGORIES:America -
International -
Chat - Free
Trial
WHAT
THEY SAY: DateMaker is an easy, fun, cost-effective, and safe way to meet other
single people in your area. Thousands of single adults have used our
system and met new friends or developed lasting romantic
relationships as a result of placing and/or answering personal ads.
Visit the DateMaker to view many publications containing personal ads.
WHAT WE FOUND:
Great site for the USA. A fun way to meet someone in your
own area. Fast! You will quickly find the area you are in so you can
find someone near you that is single and looking for someone special.
Membership is free for you to place your ad, listen to voice mail and
add your picture to your online profile. This service works with local
newspapers that support voice ads. You'll become a paid member to post
a newspaper personal ad and to reply to responses of your own personal
ad.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free picture
personal ad, members get 1-900 number voice ad contact, must join to
respond to ads and hear on-line voice ads, serves members from USA
with local newspaper affiliations.
RELATED CATEGORIES:
America
WHAT THEY SAY:If you're looking for friendship or romance you want to find someone who
lives near you, right? So datingagency.com is local. We have branches in
most countries in the world and if you want, you can search the world
over. But most people choose to use their local branch of
datingagency.com. Finding the right relationship should be fun,
shouldn't it? After all, we do it to be happy. datingagency.com doesn't
ask any awkward questions or put up any barriers, it just lets you get
on with meeting people. It's the perfect way to spend the evening.
WHAT WE FOUND:
datingagency.com offers you a free trial for life. Once you join for the
free trial you will have access to almost all features, at least all the
features that will allow you to meet others including adding your photo
with your personal ad, replying to any messages you receive, finding out
which member has made you a favorite selection in their list of saved
profiles and finding out who has been looking at your photo. The first
thing that you’ll notice that makes this service stand out from the rest
is the ease of use and navigating around the site as well as the “local
to your country” personals that are listed on your first visit. Whether
you are from Australia or Zimbabwe you can select the local branch of
datingagency.com and find the personals of people that live close to you
quicker than most other services. You can also easily select people from
other countries by using the “Change Locality” option and browse ads
from just that country instead of the whole membership list from every
country that datingagency.com services. Optional paid “Club Membership”
offers advanced features that include being able to send messages to
others first, conduct more detailed searches and save the results, have
your personal be featured at the top of search results and also have it
rotated on the front page of your country page. Your personal ad will be
reviewed and posted about 24 hours after you join, this keeps out the
non-serious browsers and allows for only personals of people that really
want to meet people to be found at this service.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free
to reply to messages trial membership, paid membership includes advanced
features. Free horoscopes, local personals from almost every country in
the world.
Straight and same sex personals available.
RELATED CATEGORIES:America -
Canada -
International -
Free Services
WHAT THEY SAY:
Dripcafe.com is the only online dating service that actually sets up a date for you. You pick out people you want based on Searching for the qualities that you want in a date. You can even search by favorite time of day if you are quirky. You fill out a form and become a member, so that they can find out about you. Then I (Stella) let them know that you are interested (anonymously of course.) No one gets your email or full name ever. That part is up to you when you meet.
WHAT WE FOUND:Drip Café is an online and real world introduction and dating service. Become a member and you will get a date. You have the opportunity to search the current members before you pay a membership fee, but to become a part of this interesting and successful service, and have a first date arranged, membership is required. With your membership you will complete an in-depth profile to describe yourself and set out the criteria in others that you are attracted to. When a match is made, Stella (the virtual matchmaker) will arrange a completely anonymous date at one of the participating date cafés (at the web site you will find which businesses are participating in the Drip Café experience). None of your personal information is revealed, other than what you post about yourself, and the café staff will introduce you to each other, first names only, to begin your date. The Drip Café experience has been well received since it's beginning in 1996, documented in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, and is continually adding more participating cafés as date cafés. If you are lucky enough to be in an area where the Date Café service is available, you owe it to yourself to join.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Members only face-to-face introduction service. Available in limited areas, check the web site for details. Straight and same sex personals available here.
RELATED CATEGORIES:America
