WHAT A TOTAL WASTE of bothering to post a profile. When I did a search of women 46-50 in a 100 mile radius in the Dallas area that had a photo and were slim to average build and had been online in the past 30 days, I only got 4 FREAKING PROFILES!!!!

Besides all that crap, it is obvious that the vast majority of profiles were no longer active. THIS IS A PROBLEM WITH ALL SITES I HAVE SAMPLED IN THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS. THEY KEEP ABANDONED PROFILES ONLINE TO MAKE YOU THINK ACTIVE MEMBERS ARE MUCH HIGHER THAN ACTUALLY THE CASE. In reality, you should not expect more than 10% of all listed profiles are actually active and seriously looking, no matter what website you choose to join. Do NOT give any website your money until AT LEAST 30 DAYS has passed. Even attractive women experience a serious dropoff of letters after 30 days.

Even when including women with a backstage photo, there were still very few members in the Dallas area. The numbers pick up in the younger age groups. Match.com leads by a wide margin in the Dallas area for active profiles with photos. Even that rathole Matchmaker has many more women than Lavalife. Losealife would be a better name. Whenever a website goes back to the old Matchmaker way of giving away at least 30 free emails with a 30 day free trial period, that website will explode in popularity. Matchmaker would have kicked Match.com's butt back to at least 2nd place if Lycos hadn't screwed up the site with their chintzy ripoff Friend Finder way of doing things. Now even Lycos is a hasbeen outfit, and it deserves all failures in the marketplace it has received because of its ripoff corporate mentality way of doing things. Match.com could institute the same policy as Matchmaker once had due to its leadership in the marketplace, but it will NOT in order to rake in immediate profits. I hope somebody with the financial backing will build a website along the lines of the old Matchmaker and kick all the current FriendFinderesque websites into virtual oblivion. Match and eHarmony may be the biggies, maybe even Yahoo is in the running, but they all suck to the depths of hell as far as men are concerned due to the severely skewed male/female ratio. 30 free emails for 30 days would keep a steady flow of women posting trial profiles on any major website. Lavalife had the biggest ripoff pay policy of all. They had automatically signed me up to receive collect credit calls from anybody that contacted me, although I never chose that option. Friend Finder taught all these chintzy corporate ripoff personals/dating websites how to scam people instead of stating everything directly up front. Your "free" trial membership isn't worth spit on any of the websites unless you are a woman, because men almost NEVER get contacted first the way women do. A MAN SHOULD NEVER PAY THESE DATING WEBSITES A SINGLE PENNY OF HIS MONEY. Stay off of Lavalife at all costs if you are in the Dallas area, because their membership level is so low it might as well be nonexistent. I hope Lavalife goes down the tubes like Matchmaker did. The search feature on Lavalife also sucks. It only loads 10 profiles per page because you will never very many profiles anyway, and the pages load slow and the profiles are divided into Dating, Relationship, and Intimate categories and you are forced to put a profile on each one in order to even smile at a member there. The old Matchmaker site would allow you to browse any of their communities after you posted a trial membership on any community, and the free emails were good on all of them.

Don't forget that if you are male, THEY ALL SUCK. Every last website is overloaded with desperado males. These websites have survived off the pocketbooks of desperado men since the beginning. It's time to let the women support them just as much and equal out the membership levels before men show them any further serious attention.