International Dating Services & Matchmakers

WHAT WE FOUND: When Joe and Marg (the creators and owners of Megafriends) moved to a new city, they found it hard to meet new friends because they don't go to bars and they work at home. So they created a place where people can come together and meet, for friendship, someone to travel with, as penpals and even for getting together and dating. You will find it easy to browse the personals, by state in America (the most ads are placed by Americans), by province in Canada and by country for the rest of the world. Searching includes the options of education level, body type, language spoken and even type of relationship you want (including "secret affair!). When browsing or searching the personals you will be able to only read the basic comments and view a photo if available. You must become a member, for free, to see the complete ad and to place your own at Megafriends, to use one of the 5 chat rooms, and be able to send a limited number of messages to other members. You will also be able to receive email messages from Megafriends when a compatible new member signs up, so you can be the first to send them a message! You'll want to become a Gold member to reply to messages, have your personal ad located at the top of the listings, and be able to include your instant messenger information included with your ad. Over all, this is a friendly service, easy to get around, and a lot of ads available for Americans.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free to post your personal ad, free to send messages, become a member to reply. Plenty of activities including forums, games and chat rooms. Straight, same sex, and secret affair personal ads available here.

WHAT WE FOUND: A great place for military people of the American services to meet whether they are stationed in America or elsewhere in the world. Civilians are also encouraged to join to meet professional military single people. It’s free to join and post your profile but you have to become a paid preferred member to make contact with others. The profile is fast and easy to complete and you can include up to 2 pictures with your profile. We like the search and the overall layout of the Military Date site, although it is rather basic in the details of members, it’s one of the best military sites to meet people that we’ve visited.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free to join, become a preferred paid member to send and receive messages. Straight personals.

WHAT WE FOUND: Military Singles Connection begins their offer to you of guest membership to post your profile, search the personals and take a look around the online service. We like all the features that are available to members, the member main menu conveniently organizes all of your member activities and messages in one place. You have access to all the features from one easy to use location. Add pictures to your profile, include detailed information included about yourself as well as the essays that help you to describe yourself to other members including such questions as “describing your perfect day” and “three things you enjoy most doing”. The member search can be as detailed or general as you select which is a great way to find compatible members. There is an Ideal Match selection form that matches you effectively with other members and new members as they join and regular email messages sent to you of new members as they match your Ideal Match criteria. Be sure to complete the basic ‘Color Code Personality Profile’ uniquely match yourself with other members.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: The guest membership includes access to all features except trading messages. A personals service with plenty of features that include personality profiles, a profile to help you describe yourself, live chat, Instant Messaging, E-cards, and a well-organized member section.

CHANGES WE'D LIKE TO SEE: (Suggested November 2004) Picture profiles first in search results would be nice.

WHAT WE FOUND: A service that is feature full you'll have a great time MINGLING. PhotoChat uses your picture that you have provided, so when chatting you can see who you are talking to, instead of having to go back and search for the person. Forums give you a place to talk about what is important to you, another great way to meet and when you join the HOTLIST keeps you in touch with those you are interested in continuing MINGLING with. Anonymous e-mail keeps your identity to yourself until you want to reveal it. Try out MINGLES and you'll want to return every day!

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: PhotoChat, photo profiles and voice messages, great search and MINGLE services and a FREE TRIAL to let you see how it all works.

WHAT WE FOUND: Muslim Matrimonials is an English/Arabic language service for Muslims to find each other beyond the traditional matchmaker. Basic membership is free and allows you quite a bit of activity starting with completing your profile, adding a personal photo gallery, browsing other member profiles and photos, send and receive smiles and greeting cards. Upgrade your membership (inexpensively) to activate Instant chat, posting messages on the message boards and being able to send and receive messages from other members. Very easy to use, very active service for Muslims all over the world.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free to become a member and complete your profile, with pictures, and browse member profiles. Become a premium member to send and receive messages and post on message boards. Be respectful of the Muslim faith, vulgarity and adult pictures will get you banned from this service.

WHAT WE FOUND: The MySpace community, one of the largest social networking services, provides the tools you need to easily create your blog and connect to friends, family and meet people. Keeping it simple and usable MySpace allows you to start a blog by joining quickly with a simple signup page, then allows you to answer additional questions to complete your personal profile. Help is at the ready by the admin “Tom” so you’re always just a click away for help in customizing your space. The blog features additional space to talk about your daily life, news, whatever is on your mind. You can keep your profile private or make it available for everyone to visit. Adding pictures that you want to share, adding music files that are made available to everyone, and videos, allows you to complete your likes and moods as you update and grow your blog. Easy to search for other bloggers of similar tastes you’ll connect fast here. Join groups, watch videos, most music and entertainment people have a MySpace account so you can add them to your friends easily to round out your blog and tastes. We do have to add this caveat: there isn’t much policing of the blogs and profiles of members by the MySpace staff and there are some real freaks as members, so I’d recommend keeping your profile and blog private until you feel comfortable revealing yourself.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free to join and use all features. You’ll easily make your space your own through the custom features available, add music, photos and videos to share (non-copyright material only). Features are easy to learn and use.

WHAT WE FOUND: If you’re a man that is interested in beginning a serious correspondence with a foreign lady, and to meet for love and marriage, NetBrides.info is the right service for you. Begin by browsing the more than 12,000 photo profiles available and find someone that you’d like to meet. You will be able to order addresses individually as well as join the Platinum Club and have a greater access to the ladies profiles and complete access to all addresses. NetBrides specialize in Romance tours that allow you the opportunity to meet hundreds of women over the course of a week or longer. They are planned regularly and you can order a free brochure and video for more information about the tours. Also offered are Visa services, translation and phone services as well as gift delivery and a Men’s Publication that allows you to have your own personal ad published and made available to the ladies where they live. NetBrides.info says that they have an engagement announced every day by couples that have met through their service as well as many references from men that have used their services that you can read.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Weekly updates of more than 100 ladies from Russian and other parts of the world (including Asia, Latin and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa) that want to meet western men for love and marriage. Browse through the online photo gallery and select the addresses of the ladies you’d like to meet. Free brochure and romance tour video available. Straight personals only.