WHAT WE FOUND: Signing up is fast and easy, only two basic pages of limited information is asked, takes about 2 minutes to complete. Choose one or both of the dating sections “Dating Relationship” and “Intimate” profiles to be completed. Based on your selection of the sex of person you want to meet your profile will be available to like-minded members (straight or gay). When uploading your picture you also have the option to choose whether your picture is public, anyone can see it, or private, you have to give the person permission first; to allow Lavalife to use your public information and picture in their advertising. Choose “Yes, promote me now!” if you are willing. Once you’re a member you can view and search for people to contact, complete your profile with more information about you, including a voice message, videos and adding more pictures...

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WHAT WE FOUND: Our LoveAccess initial visit began with looking at the chatting members first, available from the home page, and we saw a few hundred members that had their LoveAccess Instant Messenger active and ready to chat. Membership signup is the next step, 3 pages of an easy to complete basic profile that includes two essay areas for describing yourself and the type of person you want to meet. Your essay answers should be well thought out so that your profile stands out when someone looks you up. Be sure to include your picture and a video message so your profile stands out above other members. The free membership allows you to complete your profile and use most of the main features including replying to IM, reading messages sent to you by other members, sending “I’m Interested” notes and access to the lobby of the chat area, but you’ll need to upgrade to be able to send unlimited messages, have unlimited Instant Messenger use, reply to messages and be able to use LoveAccess.com to the best potential of meeting people. Searches were fast and in the areas we searched there were always plenty of members which looks good for anyone joining in the main service areas, America, Canada and Britain. Other international areas may not have as much success, but that does depend on your actual search. We like the features of the ‘Dating Dashboard’ that lets you see who has looked at your profile, and who is interested in you. LoveAccess passed our review with flying colors. Easy to use, lots of features for free members that include talking with others and upgrade members have full freedom of the service that includes initiating contact. You can add pictures to your profile, add a video message and the IM feature includes webcam chat.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free membership offers complete profile access including adding pictures and video to your profile, sending messages to others and includes use of the Instant Messenger that includes your webcam. Upgraded members have unlimited use of LoveAccess including starting conversations. Lots of members in all areas, an easy to follow navigation system and fun features. Straight and same sex profiles available.

WHAT WE FOUND: LargeFriends is a fun service for people that are looking for Big Beautiful Women or Big Beautiful Men to meet and possibly date. We like small services like this that make online dating fun. We tried the free member package and once you’ve signed up you have a lot of features to use that include replying to messages you receive, sending ‘winks’ to people you are interested in meeting and using the Instant Messenger to chat with other online members. Email messages are sent anonymously to the email address you joined with, so be sure it’s a private email address. When you find someone you want to contact first, before they contact you, you’ll need to upgrade to a gold membership. The upgraded membership also allows for more features that the basic free membership including top listing in search results ahead of the free member profiles and being able to see who has viewed your profile and who has placed you in their “I’m interested” section.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Easy profile form, free to join and reply to messages, send ‘winks’ to other members. Instant Messenger, anonymous emailing direct to your signup email address, member forum.

WHAT WE FOUND: Latin 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 of Cuba, South America and Hispanic 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.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free to join, post your profile, add pictures and video and audio messages. Effective December 12 2005 all memberships are free including full use of the service. No limitations. No fees, no credit cards needed to join. 100% free. Unknown at this time how long the offer will last, but it should be a long time, the service tells us 'never'! Straight and same sex personals available.

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WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free to join and post photos and video. Must have a subscription in order to send mail and take advantage of full features. Offers Live Chat, Smiles, Love Wall, love bomb messages once a week, see who has viewed you, four different types of searches, dating stories section, and nicely laid out profiles.

WHAT WE FOUND: One of the largest and best professionally maintained introduction services. Begin with a quick search of all the women available and ready to correspond with you. You can search by area of the world or by ID number if this is not your first visit. Flower and gift delivery available, as well as email delivery of your letters to avoid the long snail-mail wait times. Order women's address individually or become a member for better access to the addresses available. This service is one of the best and has been reviewed by top newspaper and television news shows in America! You will be fulfilling the dreams of the women available at A Foreign Affair when you start communicating with them and there are staffed travel tours are arranged often so you can go and meet the women you have been writing and talking with and take your romance to the next level. Travel tours are arranged on a regular schedule to Russia, the Ukraine and Latin America. Certainly the best service available for the single man, and one of the best we've ever reviewed. Be sure to read the media reports and client testimonials available if you are unsure if this is the right service for you.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: This is a large photo catalogue site that offers many services to contact Russian, European, Asian and even American women, regularly scheduled travel tours, letter writing tips, phone contact with the Russian and European women registered at the site as well as e-mail contact addresses available. Individual addresses available or memberships can be purchased for better access to the women you want to correspond with.

WHAT WE FOUND: Love.org is one of the easiest to use services we’ve reviewed. Currently free to join, place your personal ad and send and receive messages, we recommend that you complete a quick search of your local area before you join. That will usually convince you that there are people in your area, or with the attributes that you find attractive, that you want to meet. The search is geared for members from America and Canada since these members can search by zip code to localize their results. Other countries match by the country. You can also narrow the results by a person’s appearance, including tattoos, body piercings, hair and eye color, etc. When joining you will be emailed your account information so be sure to double check your email address. The profile form is quite easy to answer, includes room for up to 5 pictures, and uses your answers to questions that will be incorporated into sentences to avoid the checklist look that many other services use but with 8 essay questions you may want to keep your profile invisible until you’ve fully completed it. We really like the “Interest Meter” feature that allows you to automatically place someone in your hot list or interest list as you view their profile. Messages are sent anonymously through the Love.org system to your member message center. You have to login to check for messages. Use the agent feature to have profiles searched automatically and match notifications emailed to you as new members join. The free membership allows for up to 10 messages a day per member and you can become a gold member and have unlimited message capability for a fee.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: Free to place your personal ad and picture, currently free to send and receive 10 messages per day or become a gold member for unlimited messaging. Straight and same sex personals

WHAT YOU'LL FIND: 3 contact free trial, picture and audio personals. Straight and same sex personals available.