Reviews of Yahoo! Personals

Every day that passes I thank whatever whim of fate that possessed me to reactivate my Yahoo Personals profile after swearing off internet dating. Two days later, Troy sent me a message that answered all my conversation starter questions. It was long, involved, intelligent, and definitely caught my attention.

We chatted for a few days and made a date to meet the next week. We couldn't wait, and instead met for lunch two days before we had planned. We talked and talked, I was late getting back to work, and and my heart skipped a beat when he leaned in to kiss me goodbye.

We had our first "official" date two days later, and have been inseperable ever since. I never believed in the idea of everyone having a soul mate until now. The last three months have been the happiest of my entire life, and I have Yahoo Personals to thank for it.

Within a week of being a Yahoo personal Premier Subscriber, I found my the girl of my dreams. She is everything I wanted and I did not even know what that was until I met her. We both did not put a picture on our profiles but when we IM'd one another personally, I showed her my picture. I even allowed her to see my webcam. She was new to the world of computers, so she did not know how to send a picture to me. I took a chance and we had a semi-blind date. She came to my door with a rose and a smile. I was taken instantly. We fell in love at first sight. I felt like I knew her all my life. Her conversation was easy and every thing about her was absolutley breath taking. She is the love of my life and we met through Yahoo Personals. Thank you!

After many sad attempts at meeting people, which all miserably failed, my girlfriend urged me to try the internet personals. I was reluctant and thought to myself, what a loser I am! I finally gave in and gave it a try. I corrosponded with a few different men, and went on a date with my first internet guy. IT WAS HORRIBLE!! He cursed, he ate like a cow, and was all together disgusting. I thought oh Lord is this what internet dating is like! I said once was enough and left him with no so much as a handshake. I then went on a couple other dates with a few men and they were very nice, although not for me, until I clicked on a guy with a cowboy hat! I saw this man, and sent his picture to my girlfriends. They all teased me, whats with the hat? I kind of liked the hat! Anyway, we both worked in Center City Philadelphia and met one night after work. He walked in, as I had arrived first, and looked so incredibly handsome! I felt my heart start to race! The great thing about internet dating is that I knew so much about him as we had conversed but by email and by phone. I felt totally comfortable with him. We sat there from 5:30pm until 2:00am! I knew this was the man I was going to marry! He was a sweetheart! We talked and laughed and looked into each others eyes for hours. He was intelligent, handsome, and witty, all the characteristics that I look for. needless to say, I moved in about 10 months later, and we were married a year after that. I have found the love of my life on the internet! Not all the internet people are people with issues and such. Most, I found, were busy professionals that were past the "bar scene" and this was a way of getting themselves, and myself, out there. I HIGHLY recommend internet dating. You have so much knowledge of the person before you even meet that you have tons of things to talk about, and you know their interests and they know the same about you. Myself, my sister and my girlfriend have all married sucessful men via the internet. My advice, dont knock it till you try it, and EVEN THEN, keep trying until you meet your Mr. Right, HE IS OUT THERE!!!!!! GOOD LUCK!!!

I was new to the whole internet dating scene, not really knowing what I was doing. I had talked to quite a few men vie e-mail but none of them really interested me. They were nice but, we would e-mail back and forth for a few weeks and then just loose interest in each other. I was about to give up when one day, I received an e-mail from a man that I had never seen in all the searches that I had conducted. His name was Tom and he is from a town just 13 miles away. He told me that he had read my profile and noticed that we had a lot in common and would I please write back to him because I sounded very interesting. Well, I wasn't too sure I wanted to go through all that again. (I had just gotten dumped by a man that I had been e-mailing because I apparently didn't have the physical attributes that he was looking for.) But I figured what the heck, his e- mail was very sweet and polite, so it took a few days to muster up the courage, but, I wrote back to him. We hit it off right away. We talked about everything. Our lives, our families, our work. We e-mailed each other every day. With our busy schedules it was very hard for us to meet face to face. Finally we got a break. He told me that he had some time off on a Saturday night in November. So we arranged to meet at a bar where some friends of mine's band was playing. Well, he didn't show up! I was so hurt, humiliated and dissappointed. I thought "He had better be in the Hospital or Dead, because that's the only excuse I'm going to except." The next morning I received an e-mail from Tom apologizing for not showing up. I told him that it was too bad, he missed a really great time, and that I was very angry with him. He wrote back to explain why he didn't show up. Apparently they had changed his hours at work, and the shift change just happened to be Saturday night. He couldn't call me to tell me because he didn't have my phone number yet. He hoped that I would understand because he really would like to meet me. He sounded so sincere that I told him that if we ever did finally get to meet, he would have to bring me a flower, just one was enough, that way I would know that he was really sorry. We arranged to meet the coming Thursday night. I was sitting at a table with my girlfriends, talking to my oldest daughter, when she tapped me on the arm and said "Mom, he's here." I turned to look and there he was sitting at the bar with a dozen yellow roses. He looked at me and smiled and BAM! It was like getting hit by a truck. He took my breath away! He looked soooo much better than the picture he sent me. Well, we started talking, played some pool (he kicked my butt, by the way)and had a great time. Then he drove me home and walked me to my door. He was hesitant about giving me a good night kiss, so I kind of helped him out, I kissed him. We have been inseperable ever since. And last Thursday on our 3 month Anniversay, he asked me to marry him!!! We are planning a late fall wedding!! We both say that if it wasn't for yahoo personals we probably never would have met. And we encourage all of our single friends to try it.

Shills have been posting 4-star and 5-star reviews. I would need to give the site a negative 50 stars to do some offsetting, if I could. I tried several websites including Match.com over the years, and the results were poor. You will do far better if you are a male in real life if you have interpersonal skills. Plenty of Fish is probably the best website out there as it is 100% free and everybody who is active can write you back. It's growing like a weed, especially in Canada where it originated. It tells you how long since the profile was active. Never, ever pay for an internet dating website. The most results came from free websites as anybody who is active is writing to people. Most people on pay sites are inactive. Most of them never bought a membership. The profiles are kept to draw inept people into paying for a membership. I suspect that Plenty of fish will surpass all the paid membership websites, which are universally crap for men as few females buy memberships.

I was very skeptical about online dating but my friends suggested I try it. I didnt think there would be anybody for me, since Im in my 50's, have burns covering 80% of my body, and Im morbidly obese, unemployed, ect.

At first my response rate was low, but I stuck with it and met the man of my dreams! He is young, tall, handsome and RICH! Dont settle ladies, the man of your dreams is on Yahoo just waiting to find you!

I had always heard about people meeting the love of their lives on the net, but never thought it would happen to me! I'm over 50 and didn't have much hope. One night while talking to my daughter on IM, someone said hello and I responded. His conversation was interesting and I found we actually had similar interests. I soon found that we had exchanged notes on YP some weeks prior. We talked on IM for weeks before speaking over the phone and then made arrangements to meet. He beat me there and when I walked in and I got his attention, he stared at me all the way to my seat. I felt it was going to be a long night, but actually we had a beautiful evening. I later found that he was in love at first sight and thought that I was too beautiful too ever go out with him again. When we parted, I hugged him and kissed him on the cheek. He said that was his signal that I enjoyed myself and would see him again. He was right. His honesty and gentle soul was just what I had prayed for. He is loving, kind, giving, and everything I ever wanted in a husband. He asked me to marry him for the fourth time Thanksgiving, 2006, six months after we started dating. I said yes and the wedding is June 23, 2007. We've met each other's families and both sides are wonderful. Yahoo Personals exceeded my expectations and I'm so glad I took a few minutes to post a profile and take a chance. I'm happier than I've been in years and would recommend Yahoo Personal to anyone looking for true companionship.

My last relationship had ended over a year before and I just hadn't met anybody new (Not into singles bars, clubs, and all that.) I felt ready to meet someone and thought I'd give Yahoo! Personals a try.

A few guys contacted me and vice versa, but I just didn't feel enough zing to arrange even a coffee date. I was considering giving up when I cam across a match that just seemed to leap off the page. His profile described everything I was looking for in a man and in a relationship.

I contacted him and he wrote right back. We corresponded on line for about two weeks before I suggested meeting. We met at Starbucks and talked for three hours before either of us thought to order anything.

Everything has been great and we're starting to talk about making long range plans.

Yahoo! Personals worked better than I expected and I met the man of my dreams. I like to say God made the man of my dreams and Yahoo! Personals brought him to my door.

I will say, I couldn't be more pleased with my experience on Yahoo Personals. I have a slideshow that tells the entire story of how we met and got engaged and if you want to see a true to life love story that was the result of Yahoo Personals, please go to:

Photostoslideshows.com Click on "Super Slideshows" Then click on "The Engagement"

What you will see is a slideshow of how I had my Silky Terrier named Missy ask Barb to Marry me. The reason for this was that in my profile on Yahoo Personals, one of the pictures I had posted was with me holding Missy. I had written to Barb and she responded only to admit to me later that the main reason she responed to me was because of the picture in my profile with me holding Missy. She admitted that when seeing that picture she said to herself, "Anyone that could make a dog look that happy would surely treat a woman good."

Check it out, you won't be sorry!

Dale

One night, some girl friends and I decided to post our profiles on Yahoo personals, for some fun. Well, I posted mine, and checked it about once a week or so. I had a few dates with local guys I met through the site, and nothing worked out. I'm a single mom of a great little boy, and most of the guys out there didn't want to deal with "baggage", I guess. Then, one day I got a message saying- "I saw your profile, I like your smile. I work nights, have a hard time meeting people because I work so much... heres my email address if you want to chat." I had a good feeling about it, so emailed him.... without seeing a picture, and after reading only a basic profile. We chatted a couple times over the next couple days, then he said he would be in my area for a family visit, if I wanted to meet for ice cream (it was October!). We met at a coffee shop (after he got lost- I was sure he stood me up!) When he walked in, he was so nervous, and I thought he was so cute. HE looked around and then walked over to my table. I said something about the cheesecake I was eating, and he said he was hungry- we went and got Arbys ( still tease him about it!). We talked a bit, then he drove me home, and we talked more. Turns out, a mutual friend had tried to get us together the year before, but we had both just broken off relationships, so we didn't want to meet anyone new. Also, we knew a few mutual people who had mentioned him to me, and me to him... Fate?? Things just clicked, and I let him meet my son,and my son loved him right away- "The guy with the red truck, mom!"-- and I knew that was a good sign. They seemed to "click" also! Mike came to visit 2 days later, and the weather got horrible while he was there. I told him to sleep on my couch, I didn't want him getting into an accident in his hour drive home- and he basically never left after that! We moved in some of his stuff the next week, and have lived together since. We are now expecting another baby (in June), and got engaged last week! Everything has worked out great, and people are surprised when they find out how we met- Yahoo Peronals worked for us!! Thank you!!

Melissa