Online dating through Yahoo Personals Ads and the like seems to be growing exponentially in popularity. It was only a matter of time before some savvy business people realized the inherent benefits and potential of online dating.
Today there are a seemingly infitite number of different dating websites, with new ones spawning every day. As the largest online industry today, finding a dating website is not hard. Finding a good one, however, can be tricky. Most of the market is dominated by three sites that stand out above the rest; Match.com, eHarmony.com, and Yahoo Personals.com. Yahoo personals is one of my favorite dating sites.
I’ve tried a handful of different sites and I keep coming back to Yahoo Personals.com. They have the same profile based system used on Match.com and eHarmony, yet are considerably less expensive.
The profiles on Yahoo Personals.com are every bit as detailed as you’d really need them to be, all the important basic areas are covered and there are plenty of ways to narrow down your search to something, or rather someone, pretty specific.
The few extra details in the Match.com profiles are cute at first, but really not very useful in helping you meet anyone, and the eHarmony profiles are downright nitpicky. Is it really that important that your potential date has to like or dislike hamsters?
The difference between these top three sites seems to reflect the different markets they aim for. eHarmony.com is somewhat renown for being geared toward people looking to ‘settle down’ into a potentially permanent relationship, so it sort of makes sense that they are the most detailed and expensive.
I suppose if you’re going to be with someone the rest of your life and you just absolutely love hamsters, you can weed out non-hamster types more easily on eHarmony.com.
Yahoo Personals.com seems to be a little bit of a more casual approach, which I vastly prefer. Even if I was looking for a marriage, which I suppose I am, I don’t think it’s a really wise approach to pretty much announce that going into a relationship with someone I just met online.
Personally, I think its better to meet people with no expectations in mind, and see what happens. It puts an unnatural strain on a relationship to start off thinking about ‘forever’ right off the bat.
So when all is said and done, I think Yahoo Personals.com is the way to go. It has considerably less fanfare and flash as the other sites, making it feel just like what it really is; a set of digital personals ads. Yahoo Personals has plenty of members to make it an effective site to meet people, and is much less annoying and profit focused than the other sites.
