Sunday, June 22, 2008

Choosing An Online Dating Service

Today there are literally thousands of dating websites available to anyone looking for love, to make new friends or simply to have a chat with someone.

These include 100% free dating services like Devil Called Love, Plenty Of Fish and Mingle2 through to paid online dating agencies like Match, Yahoo Personals, and eHarmony which all have thousands of profiles worldwide, hosting millions of members looking for love.

Other online dating sites, like JDate, ChristianCafe, BlackSingles.com, Hispanic Match.com, Senior Yahoo Personals, and more, concentrate purely on a single religion, ethnicity, or age group.

If you're new to the online dating game, it's probably best not to stick to just a single specialist dating site at first because you really are putting all your eggs in one basket, although if you don't find what you're looking for on a general dating site, a specialty dating site may be just what you need.

Most dating sites have security and privacy policies and those that don't are best avoided. By security we mean that they vet their members, they have policies and terms of use allowing people to be removed, or barred from the site.

They may have protective measures in place to ensure that the members dating online will not face any serious annoyance when logged in. On top of that some sites will register with data protection registrars and have a strict password system protecting accounts.

The very best dating sites will be aware particularly of women's issues when dating online and will have a positive policy allowing women members to block those who they do not wish to communicate with, without repercussions. There are some sites that penalize for blocking and we would never advocate you to use them.

Email should always be a private affair when dating online and the top dating sites usually keep your email within the site itself so that you have a protected in box but messages are never transmitted to your real world address.

Instant messaging is increasingly seen as very important when dating online and allows instant communication with other members who are online at that time. This facilitates easy and private chats which can lead to positive relationship building.

Chat rooms don't occur on all dating websites but they can be very useful for new daters and socialites who love to chat to many people at once. It is a good way of getting your typing and chat skills on top form.

The best sites allow you to use a different name in a chat room to your regular profile to maintain anonymity levels. The other communication feature becoming increasingly popular is voicemail.

Apart from being able to communicate online it is very useful to be able to lave voice messages and listen too without ever giving out a real phone number. Sites utilize secure voicemail box IDs and passwords through a common number allowing people to send and receive voice messages between themselves and members they like.

These are all good tips to keep in mind if you are considering trying online dating. One of the best 100% free internet dating sites that we recommend is Devil Called Love.

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