Reviews of Yahoo! Personals

The Concept of Internet Dating is good, but many of the people one these sites lack common sense, and that is why Internet Dating is bad for 95% of the people who use it. There is only a 5% success rate for the people who use internet dating. Most of this comes from women on the net who don't know what they want.

What I find annoying is the women who complain that there aren't any nice men. If some guy writes a nice guy profile and keeps the pictures in his profile conservative he'll never get any responses from these women. These women will only bite if a guy uses the BAD BOY angle in his profile. I suppose they loically don't know what they want.

The only way I can get any responses, views, winks, or emails from the women is for me to use SHIRTLESS profile pictures! I have a fairly good looking face but I guess that it gets lost in the crowd. What's more is I'll always get emails from these pusedo-christian women who denounce my use of Shirtless pictures.

There are plenty of men for these women to choose. The problem is these women are already confused (hence the reason they joined the site in the first place) and the abundant amount of men makes their choices even more confusing. If they put some thought into who they want to date then maybe they wouldn't whine about a lack of men.

it's all in how you look at it!!! my gosh, everyone, it's surely better than going to a bar/club to meet someone!!if not to meet someone to date, or love....just a great way to meet people!!! so what if you have to weed thru a couple of 'old' profiles, when you are supposed to meet someone, you will...whether you approach them, or they approach you. After my divorce, my sis-in-law talked me into joining, so i joined 1, and then yahoo...and i dated a couple guys...but then i got e-mailed from yahoo, and unlike some of you think, i contacted back - always!! - and told him that i was currently dating someone, but we kept in touch anyway. and when that date bad, i contacted him back thru yahoo, and now we are making plans for our future. there are good ones out there on the dating sites, i found one of the best, you just have to patient....love cannot be rushed, i certainly know that from experience, i am divorced!!! lol

Tim in Oregon is to have us believe that he liked eharmony so much he created a website dedicated to it? lol. What an idiot and another good reason to avoid eharmony like the plague. People that post advertisements should be banned.

Yahoo! Personals seems to have two major things going against it:

1. I joined two years ago and just rejoined, being single again, and there's at least a half-dozen of the same people there. No changes to pics, profile, etc. and if you try to contact them, no replies. Seems pretty obvious that there's at least a couple of profiles for each major city that are fake and just bait.

2. The majority of the real people who seem to be on the site, at least around my age (40) are all basically divorced women w/kids looking for hubby and/or daddy #2 (or #3 or 4...) or desperately looking to find someone to hurry up and get married and have kids with. If that's what you're looking for, then cool, but the "compatibility" and other "matching" features seem lame, and the real profiles / people there seem to be trolling, just looking for any kind of response.

I've read a bunch of the other one-star reviews here and have nothing to add other than I agree with almost everything they say. A friend has had better luck with The Onion Personals (run by FastCupid) and I'm checking that out, and another friend recommends eHarmony.com. I only tried Yahoo! because I managed to get a free account but no way I feel like paying for it when the few responses or contacts I get do not seem to have bothered to read my profile (perfect example: wants kids, when I state I do NOT want kids.)

Good luck for everyone still looking!

While I liked being able to browse through the pictures and profiles, I concluded that Yahoo Personals was not for me. The men write dozens of e-mails with no responses. Attractive women who post their picture have to sort through hundreds of e-mails.

I ended up signing up with eHarmony and it worked well for me. I like the fact the eHarmony matched me with women that I had a few things in common with and I could decide if I thought there was potential. If I liked the picture and profile, I simply selected 5 multiple choice questions for her to answer. If she responded great, if not, I saved a lot of time. I appreciated that there was a minimal time investment until we both had decided to investigate the possibilities further.

I think that I was a bit of a challenge for eHarmony. I live out in the middle of nowhere. I don’t think there are 1000 people within 10 miles of me. Still, I found a wonderful woman that loves me for who I am. What more can a guy ask for?

I know when I first started my eHarmony experience, I wish I had the benefit of some thoughtful advice. I have spent a lot of time considering our eHarmony experiences and I came up with a number of eHarmony tips and suggestions. If you are curious, they are posted at: www.RomanceForEveryone.com

eHarmony certainly isn’t for everyone. If you are serious about finding someone to share your life with and you are willing to invest the time, I think eHarmony is a good option to consider.

Internet dating is emotionally draining. My biggest complaint is the non-responses. I've winked until my eyes are bleeding with not even a "No thanks" response. Personally, I would rather here that than nothing. My favorites are the gentleman you contact and they respond with "I've met someone I've clicked with and want to pursue that". My first thought is "then why are you still looking at the profiles?" Poor girl he clicked with. It's a very up and down thing to deal with. Be prepared to be out there for a very long time because unfortunately I think most of the men are looking for that trophy wife which they either don't have now or never had. And no offense, by the looks of these men, they better start posting better pictures and writing a profile that you can actually read without a deciphering tool. Example: i like to swim, jump of moutians and enjy my hildren. What?????? And why do they all want to jump off mountains? I'm still out there I think because I've taken the attitude it gives me something to do. But after major rejection from some of the biggest losers, Saturday nights at home with my dogs and a good book is looking better and better.

While DoctorPhil can get a person irritated, anybody who has used online dating understands where he is coming from. Not enough bad can be said about online dating, especialy the sites that charge, because it's only about money to those people. More alarming is people like Random who will follow a person around on a review site like this and shoot down individual reviewers. I am familiar with stalkers in online dating, and Random shows all the tendencies of those percerts. He could have stated his case in one review, but instead he STALKS around just as he will the women on the dating websites. Notice how he works, all of you, so you can avoid his kind. Not surprisingly, Random is from NYC which is the homebase for loonies, not from some place on the prairies. NOBODY OUT THERE, you idiot. Random is from headcase central, USA. No doubt he is a headcase himself. I give stalking losers like Random the brushoff on dating websites, and he comes here to stalk other people. Do you think women cannot see through your loser sorry ass? Doesn't NYC have enough psychologists to handle all you stalker losers already?

I am a good looking 40 y.o. male, look much like Bon Jovi, self employed ,2 houses etc...I started dabbling on these dating sites about 7 years ago and the success rate was great, I met alot of real women and really liked the concept of online dating because you have access to so many people you would normally not come into contact with in every day life, work..etc I have now grown to really dislike these dating sites as many others have said, there are so many fake ads, the ratio is horrible, and even if they are interested the rate of paying women is low. I've also noticed the same beautiful women every time I would browse the site, the same ones I saw 7 years ago, these women, some of them look like supermodels, and they've been on the dateline for 7-8 years straight? I think the basic concept is very good but has become corrupted and it's better to meet people in person out and about

Oh man. So after reading DoctorPhil's disappointed drivel and responding to it on the Match, lavalife and EH reviews he's HERE too?!

MAN this guy got shot down on every single major dating site out there (I haven't even bothered to read this review of his, likely it's a thinly couched "I'm better than this site because you all rejected me" tale like the others and I've said it all there.)

Wow, at least I can say that I'm just looking for a good site to check out - this poor bastage has tried them all and is still a loser.... and needs to post about it on every review page like he hasn't!

I shouldn't be to hard on the sheep-shagger, he has, like Springer, made me feel a whole heck of a lot better about myself. Even if I strike out on the site I eventually choose - at least I'm not "that guy".

Wow, Dr. Phil has to be joking, or if not, thank god the poor Russian woman has him, for the sake of everyone else. Hopefully, someone as narcissistic and possibly antisocial as himself, will actually travel to Russia and stay there. We have enough narcissists in the US...we are a culture of narcissism and he seems to fit the bill. I'm so very happy that I have decided not to try internet dating because if this is representative of what is out there, then I've saved myself the heartache of having to handle a conversation with a total racist freak. To all the men out there on this forum, please, you have to see how weird he sounds. It's time to make the case that most men aren't this strange. Please!