Bay Area Personals:
Most of the ads from this Northern California listing are on the
site, but you have to pay to call and respond. Placing an ad is free, but hearing
the responses costs money, too.
Bureau One Personals
is self-billed as "America's largest provider in voice personals for publishers."
Bureau One Personals lets you select your area code and view personals from your
area. Placing ads is free, but it costs by the minute minute to hear the responses.
Campus Singles:The college dating scene is changing, so choose "the newest, most exciting way to meet new friends, buddies, companions ,and lovers from all over the country!"
Responding costs per minute.
Datebook Magazine
is part of the public.com.personals for the New York City area, as well as two
Connecticut cities -- Fairfield and New Haven. Free to browse, fee for placing adds, and a 900-number to respond.
Florida Dating Network
promises that "if you are searching for someone special, you've come to the right place." Just
follow the easy steps (plus pay per minute) to find friendship, romance, and more.
PERSONALS
has a Direct Connect feature that allows callers who hear a voice personal ad that they like to
be connected in a private conversation with that person. Placing and listening to
ads costs per minute.
Romance Online
claims that "what makes Romance Online so fabulous is that it allows you to see the photos and
profiles of the Web's most romantic singles.". Yes, it can be
fabulous to see photos with a personal ad, but it's not so fabulous to call a
900-number to respond to an ad.
Select Connections Dating Service
is part of the public.com.personals for the Maryland and New Jersey area. Browsing ads
is free, responding costs per minute.
Singles Dateline:
Hear men's or women's dating ads, or record your own. A safe, fun, and sensible way
for singles to meet other singles for friendship, romance, or the sharing of common
interests. Cost per minute.
A Matter of the Heart:
For a fee, you can browse the personal ads (some with photos) and have a toll free
voicemail box. The disadvantage is the site is full of advertising.
American Singles Non-Profit Dating Service:
Browse many profiles of attractive single men and women from around the country and
the world.
Blind Date on The Net:
Send a random e-mail to an anonymous person and see who responds; check out ladies'
or mens' homepages; post your own blind date ad; plus find lots of links to other
sites. What a refreshing twist on the old personals site.
Christian Singles On Line Home Page:
Tired of the Bar Scene? Looking for someone with your same beliefs and values?
Search no longer. Membership fee is for six months, with a guarantee of at least
ten matches. Don't be a lonely Christian heart!
Computerized Matchmaking Online:
This service compares questionnaires filled out online for matches. For free, you
can be compared with future donors (for the next 30 days). For a small donation, you
can be compared with all of the questionnaires in the database. Either way, it's a
low-effort chance to find that "special someone".
Cupid's Network Inc:
This service provides links to 1,000s of personals. Includes an events calendar,
book store devoted to the singles scene, etc.
CYBERDATING
Finally, an easy way to find someone compatible with your lifestyle. And you don't
need to pay by the minute. You get only what you're looking for, quickly and easily.
Membership dues vary depending on service desired.
CyberFriends:
CyberFriends is the electronic version of traditional pen friendship service. You
can easily find people of your profession and interests and contact them for
personal or professional friendship.
DANCLINK:
DANCLINK offers a variety of unique services for singles and couples looking for
more fun and excitement out of life, who would like to meet otheres. There are a
range of memberships (price depends on number of responses).
E-Mail by PhotoDate:
Browse through pictures and ads in your area, "that someone special could be just
around the corner!" You must submit a picture before accessing most of the ads, plus
a minimal fee.
Face To Face:
Face To Face introductions offer you the opportunity to meet the person or persons
who have all of the qualities, interests, looks, or other attributes that are
important to you. Browsing and posting is free, while responding rates depend on the
number of "credits" you buy.
Future Now Astrological Virtual Dating Service:
"Perhaps the best possible way to predict the compatibility of two people is through
an astrological compatibility analysis." For a fee, you can create your own Web page
with picture and astrological chart. The compatibility grid helps you compare your
chart to potential partners.
INTERNET FOTO INTRODUCTION SERVICE:
Meet singles from around the country through this photo-based introduction service.
There is a fee to post your photo, plus a service fee for each response to your ad.
Internet Social Registry:
The Social Registry is free to join, but there's a fee to respond to your "matches."
An extensive questionnaire is used to match you with a compatible person...whether
you become romantic or friendly with this person is up to you.
Mark Tompsett's Personals Web-Page:
This personal personals site lets you post a lengthy questionnaire, and check out
others' ads, all for free. Not as high-tech as the others, but impressive
nonetheless.
Match.Com:
Using an anonymous handle, you communicate through e-mail until you're ready to
reveal your identity. Services are free (for now), so come browse!
People Seeking People Index:
This free service has personal ads, and that's it. Respond via e-mail to headers
such as "If you have four limbs, you could be my wife!" and "My perfect women is
4'9", 193 pounds, whose main interests are collecting dead butterflies."
Prodigy Web Personals:
Prodigy Web Personals offers single adults the opportunity to introduce themselves
to one another in a safe, effective, and fun way. Thousands of ads to browse for
free. Responding via e-mail is also free.
Personals:
"This is a sanctuary, a gathering space, a sun drenched meadow soaked with sounds
and smells of springtime, forever youth, giddy, and often unbridled expectation...
such is the promised land of the public.com personals." So, what they are saying is
that they are a link to 10 regional personal ad sites. Fee.
Romance Rendezvous:
Simple format: free to browse ads and free to post ads. Respond via e-mail. No
pictures or frills, but it is free!
Single and Looking:
Single and Looking provides "hot links" to other personals sites, as well as
newsgroups, pick-up lines (like "I lost my phone number, can I borrow yours?") and
suggestions, not to mention the "Singles Site of the Week."
Singlesnet:
For a hefty membership fee, you can post your picture and ad as well as respond to
others' ads. This service is completely confidential; not even your e-mail address
is given.
The EEN Personal Ad Department:
Featuring the "revolutionary" Love Connection feature, this service is free to post
your ad and picture. Matches are only made when you click on the "Love Connection"
while viewing an ad, and the same person clicks the LC while on your ad.
The Internet Personals:
The Internet Personals puts the Personal Ads on the World Wide Web. You can set your
own preferences and see only those Ads that meet your criteria. This is a free
service!
The Silicon Matchmaker:
The Silicon Matchmaker brings members together to find friends and romantic
partners. Clients interact by exchanging e-mail, through online chat channels, and
at organized social gatherings. There are 23 Matchmaker systems nationwide.
Virtual MeetMarket:
There is no cost to publish a personal of your own on the Virtual MeetMarket, and
you get to use a full page of hypertext and a few inlined GIFs to include in your
personal. Responding is free too, via e-mail, except it goes through the service, to
protect the anonymity of the ad placer.
Vis a Vis:
Some guy created this site while supposedly working, but hey, it's free. Post
questionnaires and respond to them for free and anonymously (if desired) using his
"cookie" password system.
Web Personals Personal Ad Listings:
"Looking for CyberRomance, MetaFriendship, or just some new Emates? Our site has
thousands of Web-based personal ads with photos." This semi-moderated free service
is intended for people who want to meet others for romance, companionship, or other
activities.
GAY PERSONALS:
Record a voice personal ad and get calls at home without giving out your phone
number. Also, you have the ability to screen calls and block future call from
unwanted parties. Costs per minute.
Positive Planet:
Personal ads for HIV+ men online. You must call a 900-number to respond, however,
which costs per minute. Also, preview the Positive Planet magazine, which also
contains personals.
A FOREIGN AFFAIRS PERSONALS:
This service placed personal ads for you in countries around the world. Therefore,
the women write to you!
Erotic Russian Women:
This very expensive and extensive service covers all of the bases on how to find,
meet, and bring home your Russian princess.
Exchange Magazine:
"Every kind of woman imaginable is included -- widows, divorcees,
virgins....secretaries, models, nurses, teachers, students." Another mail order
bride magazine. Addresses for a fee (surprise).
Foreign Relations:
"Hundreds of intelligent, cultured, and truly BEAUTIFUL Russian women waiting to
correspond with and meet you." There is a fee for each address, with a bulk discount
rate.
MAIL ORDER WIVES:
"If you are tired of sitting around watching reruns of Star Trek and playing games
on this computer, and your social life is almost non-existent or if you are just
tired of the hoops American women make you jump through, then Overseas ladies may be
fore you." Fee is per address.
P.S. I Love You:
A unique introduction and singles matchmaking service showing photos of "beautiful,
highly educated women from all over the world who are looking to meet men for
friendship or marriage." You can browse for free, but videos and addresses are for a
fee.
Pacific Century Club:
Supposedly, women from "all over the Far East" have contacted this service in order
to correspond with men overseas. This service is primarily a magazine, and you must
order it to receive addresses of potential mates.
PHILIPPINES Girls-Travel-Business-And More:
Filipinas seeking foreign men for LOVE- ROMANCE- MARRIAGE! Send your description and
a fee for a match with a lovely Filipino woman.
Welcome to the Global Love Connection:
" No man is an island! Love is our greatest achievement. Why be monk-of-the month?"
This site is full of fun quotes. For a fee, you can obtain some addresses of women
in other countries too.
Women Of South America:
The promise here is that a Latin wife will "make your hidden energies awaken and
cause you to be the happy and successful man you always knew you were deep inside."
Wow. Fees are based on number of profiles requested.
MatchMaker Modem:
The Matchmaker Network is a modern, multi-line bulletin board located in the heart
of Texas. You can also Telnet to the New York bulletin board through matchmaker. Use
e-mail and chat rooms to meet other exciting singles!
San Diego Singles:
This site contains personal ads, singles newsgroups, events, and information for the
San Diego area, and it's free.
Toronto Dating:
Free dating service for those living in the Toronto area. Web Connection is a young
service, but it offers free posting and browsing of ads as well as "cool links" to
other sites.