Reviews of Yahoo! Personals

Dawn from Florida is right on. Everybody is flawed - the difference lies in whether or not we are perceptive enough to identify our flaws and courageous enough to fix them. The guys who are complaining seem to have this weird nasty characterization of women, yet they gravitate only toward the women who fit that characterization. I know lots of great women and Im friends with a lot of great women. And I've met some great women online. (Granted, I've met crazies online too, but that goes with the process).

I think the guys on this site need to go to Barnes and Noble and head into the Self-help section. And I bet any of these guys who read what I just said totally scoffed at that, and maybe that's your problem.

If you think how you've always think and do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.

Hi,

I joined Yahoo Personals about 3 months ago - I rarely meet new men, so had started thinking I might be single forever if I didn't try and do something about it. Anyway, I had some negative experiences on Yahoo, including meeting someone who asked me my chest size, whether I would have phone sex with him and whether I would sleep with a woman, in our first conversation! I realized quickly that many people are using the site for superficial reasons - I know there are genuine men using it for sure, but I have no idea how you filter the others to find them. So I joined eHarmony after a month of negative experiences on Yahoo & it's been a much more positive experience - I'm not expecting to find the love of my life quickly here - I've joined because I want to be able to meet new guys, period, because my offline dating is pretty much zero! Anyway, the quality and sincerity of the men I have met is like night and day compared with Yahoo.

Just wanted to share my story.

Good luck to you all...

I new to this stuff so here goes. Reading the reviews for various sites is funnier and more entertaining then actually going to the sites.

Anyway after reading and laughing my butt off at some of the reviews for yahoo personals, I think I'll hold off on paying for the 'extra' services.

Actually some of the reviewers seem more interesting then the people on yahoo personals. Of course since I'm not paying I don't get to see anything :P

Good luck you guys and thanks for all the fish.

I'm going to buffalo wild wings to watch a game.

I am a 45 yr old male. And yes, I was a sucker and taken many times by the online dating companies scams(Singlescam.com, YahooisforsuckersPersonals.com,Matchyourcreditcardnumberwithourbankaccountnumber.com, Eharmyourcreditratingbyforkingoveryourcreditcardnumber.com, oh and tried that Plentyofishforlosers.com for free and, all to no avail. A couple of people commented on Singlesnet saying that they got alot of responses from Ghana, Africa women. So did I. Only thing is that the ones I got were all hot looking (like strippers or some shit). And it always seemed like I was hit on by hot 30somethings just before my full-member account cancelled (only to never hear from them again when I was too stupid enough to renew my membership).

One positive note I have is my younger sister got married in Lake Tahoe last month from a guy she met on Match.com (however, while talking to her the other day on the phone, they were argueing)go figure.

I think the bottom line is that these sites are pretty much a scam and, that you are better off meeting people in the real world ( say a homeless chick on the freeway offramp holding a sign (at least you know she probably only wants a $20.00 bag of weed and a burger but you really do not know what she has) lol. It's all a roll-of-the-dice as they say.

I think I will take the advice of my father who married 3 times and said "For the few minutes of sexual pleasure you get it is not worth the lifetime of aggravation".

Save your money and meet a woman in real life.............

I see men complaining about golddiggers because they set their income requirements too high. That's fair. I probably would not want a man who I perceived to be after my money. Ironically, I am more financially well off than most of the men that I have met. I'd be happy enough to find a compatible person with a comparable income.

The flip side of this is that men are attracted to beauty every bit as much as women are attracted to financial security. There have actually been studies on this relating to our most primal instincts in selecting appropriate mates.

A man looks at the picture and he makes a judgment. A woman looks at the income and makes a judgment. Is one worse than the other? Everybody can judge that for themselves. I do not know this for a fact, but I would guess that the more physically attractive a woman, the higher she sets that income bar.

For now, I would suggest that you bypass women that you perceive as gold diggers. I can guarantee that there is some much older guy out there, who doesn't care if she wants his money.

Just the way it is. On Yahoo, any other site and in real life.

Good luck to all of you!

I have to agree with Steve from Florida. The obstacle that put me off from online dating right from the beginning was the number of women that specified high income levels for their 'dates.' I couldn't bring myself to contact women that did this....to me, it's display of poor taste and a greedy mentality I'd rather not be involved with knowing. It's always irritated me that women only flirt with me 'after' they've found out what I do for a living...and online dating really isn't any different. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

I read enough of the disgruintled reviews to tell it's mostly a bunch of losers that use these inetrnet dating sites. Men write how screwed up the women are. Women write how screwed up the men are. You are ALL screwed up and anybody who pays money, and worse yet their time and energy, to meet a bunch of losers like you are a bunch of losers that also lost their money. The website keeps charging your credit card because you are too damned stupid to cancel payment through your credit card company. Now you've got less money and are all mad as hell from the last loser that your loser ass met. Like I want to meet a broken down loser like you, that probably can't pick up anybody in a bar. Stick it where the sun don't shine!!!!!!!!! I'll meet real people in the real world. I quickly learned that internet people are disASSter areas. The one good thing this internet dating stuff does is get a few more losers off the streets and out of the bars as they surf on their computers, and for that it helps the rest of us.

Dawn I disagree with some of your comments. Although I agree that some of the opinions expressed here are way out of line, they do have some validity to them. I have been trying both Match and Yahoo off and on for several months and I have noticed a continuing theme. The same woman month after month are on here. Can you honestly tell me that they cannot find a compatible date? Golddiggers??? How else would you describe someone who comes right out and tells you they only want to date a man who earns $150,000,00 a year. I honestly wouldn't care if she were a waitress as long as she was the one for me.

Well, after reading some of the mens' reviews for this site and onliine dating in general, I see why there are problems. The fact is that you write the profile. If you are targeting your potential dates correctly, you will get responses. If you have the attitude that real women are fat and non attractive, you wind up with strippers and people who marry for green cards.

I live in Florida. I know lots of nice women in Florida. Of course, to a great guy like Nate they are probably not good enough. He picks a "dancer" and a woman who was married to her cousin. Then he writes a review stating that the women in Florida have no morals!

You picked them and overlooked nicer women becuase they weren't quite up to your exacting "standards". You are fooling nobody.

Brandon is also complaining about Yahoo. He is complaining that all of the women are Sasquatch or gold diggers. He doesn't want to waste his time with "worthless losers" because he is busy and quite self important. He calls the women on the site scags, etc. All of the young women are still throwing themselves at him! If they were, he would be dating them.

Hah! If either of you are as great as you say, you would have no problems getting an attractive and quality woman, online or offline. Like attracts like.

Every man that writes to me is not perfect for me. Some of them lie on their profile. The fact of the matter is that I would never embarrass myself by coming on a forum and speaking of these men in such disrespectful terms and blaming everybody but themselves.

If you are getting losers, it is nobody's fault but your own.

I noticed something...I have read some of the reviews of the various dating sites, and I have been a member of those same sites at one time or another.

And, to tell you the truth, they are all a scam. Plain and simple. Find a wife, or husband on line..fat chance.

The most things you are going to get, are old deleted profiles, fake pictures, and people that are so picky, that the only thing they are on there for is to make other peoples life misrable. Oh, and lets not forget the criminals, homosexuals, and cheating hubbies and wives...these are the top attractions.

Want a free night of hay romping sex? Just do not try to solicit a date on line...use your hand instead.

Want a man, or woman for dating, long term relationship, and possible marriage? Good luck.....and keep dreaming.

The only thing you do on ALL sites you have to pay to be on, is feed someone your credit card, bank account, or other personal information, and end up setting your self up for idenity theft.

Want a love life? Stop dating your computer, and go out, and meet people in person.