WHAT WE FOUND: One of the hardest things to do for single's is to meet new people. Meetup.com gives you thousands of opportunities by joining groups that share your interests. You'll find Meetup groups for most hobbies and interests in thousands of cities all over the world. Likely one near you too. You can meet online and there are usually regularly scheduled meeting places for the members of the groups you join. If there isn't a group that you'd like to join you can always become a group organizer, follow the easy instruction and start inviting people to join your group. There are groups for all ages, religions, politics and social activities. Learning or sharing hobbies is easy in a Meetup group.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: An easy way to join and create groups that bring people together. Being able to meet online and in person makes Meetup.com a great way to meet people in your area that have something in common with you. Free to join and find the group of people you'd like to share your interests and time with.

WHAT WE FOUND: meetic FR, the French language version of the international meetic, is one of those rare finds in the online world, access using computers, mobile and land phones. We like the flexibility of membership options, since you have to be a subscriber to make contact and chat with other members. There is a three day free trial, so you can test meetic out for yourself (credit card required). But, with over 10 million members throughout Europe and North America, meetic has members wherever you are. The initial signup is a simple series of questions that allows you to post your profile for other members to see, you can skip any questions you don’t want to answer. Be sure to have a picture ready to upload, that’s your first option during the signup. The many features include one-on-one chats (there were over 900 girls online ready to chat during our test), teases (free to send), voicemail messaging, and sending messages to other members inboxes. You’ll be sure to enjoy the ‘meetshake’ feature that allows you to select the characteristics of members that you’d like to meet and find their profiles easily. Your ‘meetshake’ is updateable as new members join. We really liked the ‘friends online’ feature that tells you if people you’ve chatted with are online, when your profile was last visited and information about the last messages and teases you’ve received. If you’re looking for a busy service that offers all the features that make online meeting and dating fun, meetic is for you.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free to join, free to send teases to other members, three day free trial available (credit card required), three membership options, monthly, by the message, or by the chat. Millions of active members makes this a great service to join. Straight and same sex personals available.

WHAT WE FOUND: A fast signup that allows you a free trial period to test out Match-Love personals. Once you've completed the signup, you'll be shown the closest matches to your profile. Here you can modify your own search criteria, or setup Match-Love to start automatic searching for you. But to get to this next step, you need to respond to the confirmation email you'll receive about your membership. Click where it tells you in the email and you'll have the opportunity to add a lot more information about yourself but answering the full questionnaire, allow yourself about 5 minutes to complete it. Then the real fun begins! You'll have 7 days to use Match-Love and begin sending messages and joining in at the chat room. Messages to and from other members are forwarded to the email address that you signed up with by the Match-Love anonymous message system, so you remain anonymous until you want to reveal yourself. We like the way the messaging is set up and the added feature of voting for the people and profiles that you like and the counter that shows how active a member has been. You may want to be aware of the Hot Match feature, it has adult nude content and is not advisable for everyone.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Full access 7 day free trial. Personals available in several languages (select the language from the home page), chat room and guest book for interacting with others. Straight, same sex and other personal available here.

WHAT WE FOUND: Believe that the stars will bring you happiness and incorporate it in your internet search for your life partner. AstroPoint brings to you in-depth analysis of 5 matches, members in their database for no more than 3 months, for free but you have to become a (low cost) member to make contact with those members. A straightforward service with one goal in mind - finding your match. You can participate with or without an e-mail address and contact methods are up to you which is a very flexible way to go. This is an international service with 4 language sections so you can speak English, French, German and Spanish and meet your match in your native tongue. When new members sign-up and if they are even more of a match they are sent to you immediately when you are a member. You can even request that more analysis's are sent to you before you become a member! What a great idea!

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Astrological matchmaking, sign up and get 5 matches e-mailed to you. Become a member to respond to your right partner. Membership is for life so you can respond to all the matches that are sent your way and more are sent your way as people join.