Great for Singles Looking for:
- casual dating
- serious dating
- short-term relationships
- long-term relationsips
- meeting local singles
Dating Site Key Features
- Over 10 million active singles
- Matches by Mail - Sends you compatible matches automactically
- Easy search feature to find local singles quickly
- Communicate through an anonymous email network
- Yahoo Personals 6 month Promise - Find a special someone in 6 months or 6 months of service free!
- 7 day free trial!
Match Compatibility
A strong point for Yahoo! Personals is the size of their network with currently over 10 million active singles. By filling out your profile honestly and setting your preferences, you can take advantage of their automatic matching system 'Matches by Mail' which sends you highly compatible matches to your account, or you can use one of the many search features to look through the network and filter results by selecting and specifying loads of criteria that are important for you in a match:
Matches by Mail
This automatic system filters through the millions of singles in the network and will send you highly compatible matches according to your profile and selected preferences. Simply pick whether you want to receive matches once a week or three times a week. It does the work for you. A fantastic tool available to paying members or anyone on a free trial.
Main Search
Using a search engine within the Yahoo Personals site, you can quickly browse through the millions of profiles any time you want by entering basic criteria:
- Sexe - example: 'woman' seeking 'man'
- Age - enter an age range example 25-35
- Location - living within 'x' miles (1 mile radious or more) of your zip/postal code or city
Advanced Search
Narrow your search by selecting from loads of additional criteria such as:
- Height
- Body type - average, slender, athletic, a few extra pounds, large, etc.
- Ethnicity
- Eye Color
- Hair Color
- Lifestyle - details such as marital status, employment status, kids, smoke / drink, TV habits and many more.
One-Click I Match
This feature will return results and show singles that are looking for someone with your characterists. With this option, the search is not taking into consideration your set criteria so you will have to filter out results but may also land on a profile you might otherwise have never landed on so it can be an interesting tool.
One-Click We Match
Only highly compatible matches would come from this search as these would be singles that are looking for someone with your characteristics, and who also match the characteristics you are looking for as it uses the preferences and information from your profile to filter through all the profiles.
With such a huge network of singles and fantastic tools to experiment and use, we give Yahoo Personals a perfect score for compatibility.
Communication
Communication with other singles is handled through your Yahoo Personals Mailbox and using IceBreakers:
Yahoo Personals Mailbox
- As a member, you will have our own Yahoo Personals Mailbox which is the principal method of communication.
- Their design is put together to help you keep track of all your communication with other singles in a very visual way. We feel it's worth a mention as it's a fantastic design.
- Messages sent to other singles are completely anonymous. Only the details you choose to include will be shared.
- After some back and forth and once you feel comfortable and ready to move on to the next step, you can choose to share your email address or any other information in order to move the conversation and relationship to the next level.
IceBreakers
- An 'IceBreaker' message is an easy way to get communication started with other singles.
- After finding the profile of another single, you can click a link to send an IceBreaker.
- Pick from a few pre-written start up messages and Yahoo! Personals will send it to the other party along with a summary of your profile.The ball is then in their court to reply.
- IceBreaker messages that are sent your way can be found in your Yahoo Personals Mailbox.
Number of Singles on the Dating Site
Yahoo Personals currently has over 10 million active singles.
Ease of Use
Yahoo has always been known to optimise user-friendliness in everything they do. Yahoo Personals is no exception. The service and site are well structured and your Yahoo! Personals Mailbox has in our opinion the best design compared to all the services we review. It is very visual and easy to keep track of anyone you had contact with, or who you sent an IceBreaker message to for example. You can even save multiple search preferences so you don't have to re-enter and check each individual preference each time you perform a search.
Security and Privacy
Yahoo! has always used the latest technology when it comes to privacy and security. Their Yahoo Personals service is no different.
Communication with other members is handled through an anonymous email network. You must use this Yahoo Personal Mailbox which comes with your membership in order to communicate with other singles. The account is password protected, can not be bookmarked, and can not be returned to using the usual 'back' button on a browser so it is very secure. No personal information is ever shared. The only way for someone to find out any real details about you or contact information is if you decide to share it with them wen messaging within this secure network.
Free Trial / Specials
Yahoo was kind enough to set us up with special links to addiitional promotions for you guys over their usual freebies:
Special Promotion through our site:
Note: in addition to the above promotions, you can also enjoy a 7-day free trial on top of the special offers..
What you can do for Free
Yahoo Personals seems to be the service where you can do the most for free which includes:
- Create a free Yahoo Personals profile
- Have a private mailbox for messages sent from other singles
- Flirt and send a free 'IceBreaker' message to other users.
- Review and reply to an IceBreaker message sent to you once for free,
- Search through their network of profiles and see how many and which singles are in your area
They do give you a lot for free to get you interested in their service but in order to really start communicating with singles and get to a point where you could meet in person or take it to the next level, like all the other legitimate and well respected services we review, you would need to subscribe. It is however risk-free to take a look at the singles in your area. Who knows, maybe none will catch your eye in which case this is not the right service for you and we suggest taking a look at the other services reviewed on our site, though with the amount of active singles on Yahoo Personals, there is little chance of that.
Current Special Offer
Right now, Yahoo Personals is offering the 'Yahoo Personals 6-Month Promise'. If you don't find a special someone during a 6 month subscription, Yahoo Personals will extend your subscription for an additional 6 months for free! A few very reasonable criteria are in place to be elgible:
- Sign up for a 6 month subscription.
- Post up a profile with a primary photo.
- Communicate with at least 5 different singles each month.
This is a great offer as it gives you an added incentive to make the most out of the service since you would have to put an effort in communicating with at least 5 different singles each month (which more than reasonable and could be done easily in a few days) for the guarantee to be in place.
It's one of the more generous offers from the online dating sites we review and we highly recommend taking advantage of the current promotion if you are searching for an online dating service. Be sure to take advantage of our special link for an additional 44% off a 6-month subscription, or 33% off a 3-month subscription:
Yahoo Personals - Special Promo!
With all these offers considered, we're giving Yahoo Personals a very high score for this section.
Cost of Dating Service Membership
Yahoo! Personals has one of the lowest membership costs compared to all the dating services we review so it would come down to what you are looking for in a dating service. If it's only the cost of membership, there's a good chance this is the service for you:
Signing Up:
- $29.99 – 1 month
- $59.97 – 3 months ($19.99 / month)
- $95.94 – 6 months ($15,99 / month)
Conclusion
This is the ideal service if your looking to meet local singles quickly. They have huge network of over 10 million singles and growing, loads of useful features and tools, easily the best messaging mailbox design to help keep track of things, and on top of it, you can test out a good chunk of the service for free before becoming a paying member. With nothing to loose, we suggest taking advantage of their current 7 day free trial at the least to give it a shot and see right away if there are singles in your area that are interesting.
At the least, we highly recommend signing up for the free trial if you are new to dating services as it is one of the most user friendly designs and is a service that seems to have understood and done their research well on what singles are looking for.
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