WHAT WE FOUND: uDate makes meeting online fun again! The Profile you will complete to begin your free trial membership is just enough for you to talk about what you are looking for in a partner without revealing too much, but you can include as much information about yourself as you like. The uDate messaging system maintains your privacy, and once you start looking for friends and romantic partners, the match page will tell you how compatible the person is for you based on your defined criteria. Be sure to start with the uDate Tour if this is your first visit, you'll be amazed at all the features that are available to you, designed just to make you at ease and having fun meeting new friends. Many members surf in every day and are looking for chat partners, so it's best to join in on the chats and you'll meet more people than just by browsing the ads. The Who's Online feature combined with the exclusive uWhisper chat system really adds to the fun of finding new friends and serious romantic partners. With new members joining every day, uDate is the leading site for people meeting people. uDate has been voted the aLoveLinksPlus Best Dating Service Of The Year for 1999 and 2001.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free Trial to see all the features offered, Who's Online, uWhisper Chat, picture personals and Compatibility Matches.

CHANGES WE'D LIKE TO SEE: (Suggested December 2003) Search before joining to find members you'd like to contact first before having to complete the profile. A free trial to chat with other members.

WHAT WE FOUND: This is a free service that has many of the features that you’d find at similar services that require membership fees. The signup is fast and the navigation of the web site makes it easy to find all the features you want at Umatchswingers.com. Most members include photos (some are x-rated) and making contact with someone is easy. Member features include several areas of the busy chat room, forums and polls to keep you busy and interacting with other members. Fast and easy to use search and browse options to find other members with similar likes as you as well as local members for you to meet. We like being able to send other members winks of interest as well as the “Profile List” of members that have seen your own profile. We like the added features of naughty ecards, webcams accessible in the chatrooms,  This is a new service with a fast growing large membership, and if you want to have some fun at a real adult service Umatchswingers should be the adult service you join.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free membership, fast signup. Free to contact other members, lots pf photos, webcams in chatrooms, free ecards to send between members, easy to get around. Instant messenger and chat rooms. Umatchswingers is for adults, swingers, couples, straight and same-sex members.

WHAT WE FOUND: Urban Wave's free service offers plenty of ways to meet someone. Start with posting your own personal ad, after all, it's free to post your profile, to make contact and reply to messages. Then take a few minutes to look at all the places to chat and discuss your opinions with others. You will have access to the Urban Wave Instant Messenger service (a fun way to chat with others online at Urban Wave), a free you@urbanwave.com email address, all chat rooms, talk boards and more. When joining you'll be asked which neighborhood you'd like to belong to, this helps to identify what type of relationship you are interested in: The Burbs = Online Friendships; The Village = Dating and Romance; The Strip = Intimate Encounters. Complete your join profile, chat with others and have a great time at Urban Wave!

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free dating service, Instant Messenger, free email address and chat rooms. Includes straight and same sex personal ads.

WHAT WE FOUND: The Yahoo Personals service is only for people that live in America or Canada (currently) although we do expect international versions to come out soon. To post an ad you’ll need to be a Yahoo member so you’ll be prompted to do that first before you join to post your profile. There are 7 steps to posting your profile but they don’t take very long to complete. Begin with the type of ad you want to post, or not post. What this means is that you can keep your profile private so it is not included in the general search results, but if you answer an ad that person can read it. Next give yourself a name for your ad. We recommend that you do not use your Yahoo username, but use something else for your ad. This will keep your privacy intact in that people won’t be able to easily guess your Yahoo email address. The next steps will allow you to post information about yourself, about the type of person you are looking for and the type of relationship you are interested in beginning as well as upload pictures and become a subscribing member. Posting your profile is free but to be able to send and reply to messages you must be a subscribed member. Once your profile is approved, this takes about 24 hours, you can also add a voice message and a video message to your profile. The search system is fast and easily customizable using zip codes, city names and “Importance Levels”, so you can narrow down your search and find the singles that you really want to meet. You can also “Be a matchmaker” and search for a match for a friend. The friend will then have to become a member, but it’s a start to not being single anymore. The “Mutual Match” system allows you to easily be matched with people that have the same likes and dislikes as you and will automatically alert you so you can send them a message (once you’re subscribed to send messages). And don’t forget about the Yahoo Instant Messenger chat program: once you have subscribed you can instantly chat with other subscribed members when they are showing as being online. With Yahoo being one of the largest web destinations, you should become a member to see all of the profiles of people that are in your area. You’ll be surprised there are so many singles so close to where you live.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: You’ll need to be a member of Yahoo to join and it’s free to post your profile. Add voice and video messages to your profile. Chat using Yahoo IM. Add up to 5 pictures with your profile. Become a subscribing member to send and reply to messages. Straight and same sex personals available.

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WHAT YOU'LL FIND: 100% free. Signing up is quick but filling out your profile takes awhile. Profiles are set up nicely and access to most of your account info and interaction is on your personal home page. The search doesn’t seem to work and some of the photos look stretched out and fuzzy. And clicking on the Home link doesn’t take you to your page, it takes you to the site home page which can be a bit frustrating. You can ONLY access your personal page by going through the front page first. They offer video chat, IM through a member’s profile page, forums, music section, blogs, message board and rate photos.

WHAT WE FOUND: Simple to join and free to use, Zazzoo is going to give you some creative things to do online with your webcam and introduce you to a fun community of people that like to chat, create and share videos and become online pals. Not everyone is “Looking for fun and flirt” (you’ll need to edit your profile to select “Fun / Flirt” or both) but you do have one text area to talk about yourself, the people you’d like to meet and anything else that comes to mind. We do like the categories and options for creating “Fun” videos and “Flirt” videos, click the ‘record’ button to get started and follow the directions.