WHAT WE FOUND: Date.com is a great service that includes private email and public and private chat rooms for members as well as a detailed profile form for your personal ad. A lot of flexibility is available for your answers to the profile questions, which will help greatly in meeting the right person for you. Once completed, it should take between 10 and 20 minutes, you will have access to Date.com, including the chat rooms and forums, but you have to become an upgraded member to send and receive messages. Did I say that this is a great service? It is. You can email in your picture, if you have one ready, to be added to your profile and let others see you. Adding your picture will increase the amount of messages you get and the number of people you'll meet. The main service is for straight relationships, but there is also sections for gay and lesbian members. More features include virtual gifts that you can send and receive free, Instant Messaging a powerful search feature for you to find someone that interests you and a weekly poll.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Place your ad for free, become a paid member to make contact. Private email and public/private chat rooms, pictures can be added to your profile. Instant messaging, online magazine. Straight, gay and lesbian sections for free and paid members.

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WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free Trial membership, Picture Personals, anonymous e-mail forwarding of messages to keep your identity hidden until you reveal it. Become a full member to send messages to others, free members can receive messages from paid members. Dating Direct is a UK based dating service has members all over the world!

WHAT WE FOUND: Joining Deafs.com is easy, only a basic two page signup form, and you’re a member of a very active dating and community service for deaf people and those that are a part of this world. We like the free membership that allows you to create your profile including adding pictures to your profile and being able to reply to IM’s (instant messages) and emails from Gold members. Free members are limited to replying to messages they receive from gold members as well as a limited search (local to your zip code) of other members. Free members can also create a blog to add information about themselves, more personal than the standard member profile page. Gold members have all the services of free members as well as they can send emails and “Winks” to free and gold members as well as unlimited search features of other members. The forum area wasn’t very active but the blogs have a lot of posts to read and comment on as well as being easy to start your own. Website navigation is easy to understand and to find your way around which makes Deafs.com a fun service for all. Member search has a lot of options to find the people you’d like to contact.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free membership with limited access and gold membership with unlimited use of all services. Instant messenger, topic and interest forums. Blogs can be public or private. Straight and same-sex members allowed.

WHAT WE FOUND: Deaf Singles Connection is a specialty service for deaf people and people that are part of this otherly abled lifestyle that understand ASL. We like the simple registration form and the options of information that you can decide to share or keep private. Free members have several features to test out the service (the guest or free trial membership is free and has no time limit), including posting pictures with their profile and sending and receiving ‘smiles’ which are short notes of interest that you can send to other members. You can also send and receive ecards within the community of members and browse and search other members profiles. Upgraded members can post to the forums, use the instant messenger to chat with other online members, enter the chat rooms and send and receive unlimited messages. We like the ability of turning off your profile so that you aren’t available to be sent messages if you want to ‘hide’ without canceling your membership. Overall Deaf Singles is easy to use and has a lot of member-friendly features that can be found at bigger dating services without the crowds of incompatible members.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free guest membership has limited features including sending and receiving smiles to other members, searches and posting photos. Upgraded members have full access of all features including sending and replying to messages, live chat and Instant Messenger chat.

WHAT WE FOUND: Dinklink (Dink = Dual Income No Kids) is a lifestyle choice dating service. Serving the growing niche of people that enjoy life the way it is, without children, and bringing likeminded people together. Joining is free and straightforward. Answer some basic membership questions and you’re ready to search the members and find people in your area that you have at least 2 things in common with. And quite likely a lot more. Sending messages does require a paid membership which helps in two ways: you’ll receive messages only from members that are serious and only those that don’t mind spending a few dollars a month to meet people. This is a fast growing site that will expand quickly in the coming months.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free to join, become a paid member to send messages. Dinklink is a niche dating service so be sure to understand that you’ll meet people of a certain mindset. Straight and samesex personals available.

WHAT WE FOUND: The first thing you want to do at Datingfaces is take the site tour. Julian will guide you and you’ll find out why this is such a great service. You could, of course, just start with signing up for the free trial. The uniqueness of Datingfaces is the personal page that you create, it’s more than just a personal ad. Covering many different areas of your life that you want to share with someone new and helping you to do it right, your personal page can be as far ranging and intimate as you like (within reason, of course!). In your own Datingfaces mailbox you can save all messages you’ve received and make your own Hotlist. Build your Datingfaces page and take your time so you will look your best to those visiting it. Answer all questions as best you can, selecting the most appropriate answer if there isn’t a perfect answer there, since this will aid with the Compatibility Smartz indicators system (patented and is the only artificial intelligence database currently used by singles services on the net today). Once your page is complete, as you view other members you’ll see the compatibility indicators (Compatibility Smartz) come alive and help you to meet the people closest as a match. Members that show more than 6 hearts in any of the compatibility areas are those you should be finding more about. The search features are one of the best we've ever seen, allowing you to find someone that matches your ideal mate very closely by selecting from a wide criteria list including income and education levels in the advanced search. Have some fun here and join up at Datingfaces!

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free or Full memberships include Face2Face Chat, your own personal page with your picture, and a great way to meet other singles! Straight and same-sex personals available here.

WHAT WE FOUND: Featuring the personal ads of people looking for casual dating, romance and long-term relationships and intimate encounters, you’ll find a wide variety of people here. Search the ads by City and State/Province for the US and Canada. Search the rest of the world by country. When you are ready to join and place your own personal ad you’ll find the sign-up easy to understand and a comprehensive form to help you describe yourself and the person you are looking for. Take your time, you want everything to be just right, remember, this is the first impression that others will make of you. Women searching for a man (straight relationships only) get a free membership with full access when they join. Receive and reply to messages others send you for free, become a paid member to send a message to someone you want to meet before they find you.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free to place your personal ad and answer messages you have received, purchase message credits to send messages to free and paid members so they can reply to you for free. A great search feature and lots of members make Dream Mates a great place to start looking for that special someone. Straight and same sex personals welcome here.