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Yahoo! Personals wants to help you meet the heterosexual singles that you’re looking for—local singles, single men, single women, or even a love match. As might be expected of a leading edge enterprise like Yahoo!, the
Yahoo! Personals programs come with more bonus features than you’re likely to find anywhere else, including dating and relationship advice, articles and tips, an online magazine (“Tango Magazine”), personality tests, and gift subscriptions. If sheer quantity of potential friends, dates, and partners is what you’re after, then you need look no further than
Yahoo! Personals. No other site can or ever will compare to
Yahoo! Personals’ heterosexual member pool in terms of sheer volume.
Yahoo! Personals may also be the safest and most reliable heterosexual dating site out there. After all, it’s Yahoo! It’s worked long and hard to establish its reputation for honesty, trustworthiness, and reliability of services. It’s one of the only sites that screens members, which, for some people, is reason enough to choose
Yahoo!Personals. For others, it may be the unique and unconventional relevance of the questions asked in coming up with matches, such as whether you want kids (or more kids than you already have), what kind of persona you exhibit in social situations, your television habits, and what kind of lover you are.
Yahoo! Personals caters to the following relationship types:
- Heterosexual
- Homosexual
- Bisexual
- Dating/Romance
Yahoo!Personals is a global site serving the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and dozens of other countries.
Yahoo! Personals offers a FREE Trial Membership! And it’s always free to:
- Create a profile
- Browse and search profiles
- Flirt using a free Icebreaker message
- Take a Relationship Test
- Take a Personality & Love Style Test
7-day Free Trial—all guests must become members after viewing their first profile, but the 7-day free trial of any subscription plan makes it easy.
Search Functionality/Options:
- Browse by State
- Basic Search:
- Gender
- Age range
- Location (with geographic proximity search)
- Option to show profiles with photos only
- Body Type (optional)
- Ethnicity (optional)
- Education Level (optional)
- Advanced Search (includes Basic Search criteria plus):
- Eye color
- Hair color
- Marital status
- Have Kids
- Want Kids or More Kids
- Education level (at or beyond)
- Employment Status
- Profession
- Income level (at or above)
- Smoke
- Drink
- Current living situation
- Social persona (i.e., “life of the party”, “homebody”, etc.)
- TV habits
- Languages spoken
- Religion
- Personality type
- Love Style
Members can save various combinations of search criteria by giving it a Search Name.
- Receive Matches by Mail—sent to your email inbox
- One-Click Matches—Yahoo!Personals makes matches for you:
- We Match—mutual matches which are made based on the compatibility of user profiles (“About Me”) and match criteria (“About My Match”)
- I Match—matches are made based on how well you fit other members’ match criteria, showing you who out there is looking for someone just like you
- Keyword Search—enter one or more keywords to find prospective matches based on the attributes, information, and qualities that matter to you most
- See “Who’s Viewed Me”
- “See if you’re fit” helps you easily compare any member’s criteria to your own
Yahoo! Personals Premier members also get:
- Relationship Fit Ratings
- The ability to rate your matches in order to hone and improve results
- The option to choose only to allow other Premier members to search your profile
- The option to search all other Premier Subscribers
- Saved profiles
- Hidden profiles
Member Interactivity:
- Icebreakers –send and receive these
- Private web-based email accounts
- Instant Messenger
Yahoo!Personals has around 10 million members, 40% of which are male, 60% female.
Yahoo! Personals screens all its members by way of reviewing their profiles for objectionable material or items that violate member guidelines. They adhere to a “5-Star” system:
- Member Controlled Privacy—allowing only other members to contact members
- Profile Screening
- Mandatory Membership—guests must become at least free members after viewing a single profile
- Community Reporting—like a “neighborhood watch” program of member involvement
- Member Education—articles, tips, advice, and tests that empower members to have the safest online dating experiences possible
Yahoo! Personals makes all members adhere to a 6-point Code of Conduct, promising:
- To be single
- To be honest and respectful
- To do their best to present their true selves in both words and pictures
- To refrain from being abusive or posting offensive material
- To abide by all Yahoo! Personals Guidelines
- To help identify members who don’t adhere to and abide by the Code of Conduct
1. Take the relationship test and Yahoo! will factor the results into your search results
2. Browse members, including other Premier members
3. Create your own profile
4. Contact potential dates
Yahoo! Personals (Casual Dates) Membership:
- $25.99 for 1 month
- $17.99 for 3 months or $53.95
- $13.99 for 6 months or $83.94
Yahoo! Personals Premier (Serious Relationships) Membership:
- $39.95 for 1 month
- $28.32 for 3 months or $84.95
- $20.83 for 6 months or $124.95
All
Yahoo! Personals plans are on auto-renewal and there is no refund policy available.
Yahoo! Personals is so confident that you’ll meet someone special in six months that they’ve backed it up with a promise: If you do not find someone special by the end of your six-month subscription, they’ll give you another six months for free. To be eligible:
- Post an approved searchable profile and primary photo
- Communicate with at least 5 different people each month
