Reviews of Yahoo! Personals

Well, I am glad that I found this website so I can talk about my experience on Yahoo Personals. I had an account on it back in 2002. It was the first year I tried online dating. I met my 2nd and 3rd EX(s) on it ... including my fiance (soon to be dumped) right now. I had dated other different guys and I would say if I could go back in time ... I wouldn't have done that. Honestly speaking, most of them are losers. Maybe I am not lucky enough like other girls that they met the ONE without trouble ... or maybe I was young and I didn't know myself too well. Most of the guys are looking for sex, and some of them have some motives (all kind of crazy reasons) to get you to go out with them ... so if you really want to go out with any of them, please take your time ... I mean don't rush into anything they ask for. Make sure to listen to your heart ... if you don't feel right, more likely something isn't right about the situation. I heard others say eHarmony and match are good sites. Once I am back to single, I will give them a try. No more Yahoo Personals for me for sure!!!!!

Bottom line is that most of the women I have encountered are completely undesireable. It is what it is. The only reason I joined was because I am new to the area and was looking for a different way to meet people. If the women on-line aren't new to an area, yet are on-line, have cute pictures AND seem desireable, they are either fake profiles, or there is a very good reason why they are single (bi-polar disorder, delusions of grandeur/ completely unreasonable expectations, a loathing towards the opposite sex because of bitter past experiences). I won't type cast every woman to be like this, because there may be ONE good one out there who has slipped through the cracks, but the odds of finding one on an on-line dating site are very low to completely non-existent, and not worth the time.

Yahoo keeps sending me these men to look at. However, there are all these articles about how there is not hardly any men on the site who are open to black women. Well that is their choice but I do not understand why Yahoo personals keeps sending me pictures of these men since I belong to the race of women that are far less desired by their users and I have asked Yahoo not to send me this stuff.

Couldn't agree more with the Washington guy's fourth and fifth paragraphs. Gotta "love" the ones who initiate communication saying how great your pics and profiles are, and then they just disappear for no reason at all. "Hey, I'm glad you think I'm the cat's meow, but let's never meet, and at least I'll have this wonderful e-mail you sent me for posterity." It's interesting that the ones who actually appear to be desireable on paper, seem to be the ones that are on the sites longer. Some people are open minded (like I am) and positive even after having bad or weird experiences, while many others are not. The longer women are on-line the worse their attitudes about the opposite sex seem to get, to the point where they are almost completely undateable.

In terms of total selection and actual desireable women, I'd have to rate yahoo personals as the worst. The sheer amount of available women is much, much smaller than match or eharmony, and I found that over 70% of the profiles on there are inactive (on-line within a month) anyway.

Since I've been using Yahoo's e-mail service for years, I consider paying 29.95 for one month on their personals site nothing more than a donation for using their free e-mail service, nothing more.

The site is loaded with fakes, emotional problems and unrealistic expectations, and women who have actively been on the site for YEARS, which should cause a red flag to pop up in any rational man's mind regardless of how attractive her photo may be.

I hadn't internet dated for years because quite frankly, I never had to until now after finding myself out of the dating loop after focusing on building a successful independent business for the past couple of years. But now I realize that the real reason I've overlooked the internet personals medium is because it simply didn't appeal to me because it reeks of superficiality and is loaded with insincere, deluded people who want much more than they're able to give.

And if there IS a sincere, real woman on the site that's genuinely looking for a mutually respectful and romantic relationship, she's usually scares herself out of any possibility of that happening because she's been jaded by all of the creeps she's encountered during her experience. Many women have a bad habit of relating ONE bad dating experience to future romantic possibilities... and nowhere does that seem more evident than on Yahoo Personals.... especially among those with more attractive photos who've been on the site a lot longer than what would be considered a "reasonable" amount of time.

So many women have written me to generally say, "you're attractive, write well, spell correctly (???) and seem to have yourself together... so I'm sure the women on THIS site are ignoring you".... then they themselves run away and I never hear from them again. What that shows me is that a woman's self-aggrandized profile doesn't guarantee that she's emotionally stable or being true to HERSELF. If anything, it usually indicates quite the contrary.

So I'm through with internet dating and will just hope to find my kind of woman by being out and about, as I have in the past Washington DC is full of attractive, single Women and I'm sure there's one out there looking for a guy like me as well... all we have to do is find each other among the chaotic and frequently superficial dating circle that permeates throughout the DC single demographic. Should be a piece of cake. LOL!

How to use Yahoo! Personals.

This site was great a few years ago, but now, especially in major cities, it is nearly a complete waste of time. Most of the profiles are fake, then they send you messages with BS URLs or spam links.

How to use Yahoo! Personals:

1) Do not fall for the "one photo" profiles. These normally begin with the standard suggested "I am an outgoing person who loves my family". Do not let this dissuade you from matches who employ this suggested setup, but it should be viewed as a red flag.
2) Only hit up the people that are in your "datable" range (you know what I mean - you never dated anyone that hot, why are they going to fall for you now . . .)
3) Flag any profiles that are BS only once using the "Report a Concern" tab on orange bar.
4) Don't give out your telephone number until you are certain things are on the up and up.
5) Beware bad grammar, names/words that are inconsistent with the actual profile.
6) Beware most Russian/Eastern Bloc names/profiles (total BS)

Happy dating, now that internet dating has become the joke that it was back in the 90's.

This site is Filled with fakers in Nigeria! Huge waste of time, a bunch of con artists that will suck up your time.

Do not bother!

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I'm not the "internet dating" type, but since I have Yahoo mail, I checked out Yahoo Personals for almost 4 years before I decided to sign up for one month 3 weeks ago... and now, I'm looking forward to my membership expiration date.

There are so many fake profiles on the site, that the site itself should be shut down just on that aspect alone. Also, while periodically browsing during that 4 year period, once I signed up, I realized that many of the same women I saw in 2006 were STILL on the site AND active in 2010... and with the same photos that they've "modified" to reflect a more recent date! So if you didn't know this, you'd NEVER know.

1st of all, what kind of dating loser stays on an internet dating site for YEARS?! And 2nd, why in the hell would they think they're a "catch" in light of that?! Delusion is a helluva drug.

The ONLY reason I'm giving the site 2 stars is because I did meet an attractive woman who was a "real" person who seemed very cool and could make me laugh... sense of humor being a disappearing trait in single women making them easy to date but harder to "like" these days. However, on our 1st date, she acted kinda confused, just not severely enough for me to view her as a total whack job. I gave her the benefit of the doubt by concluding that internet dating has jaded her to the point where her erratic behavior was due to her recent experiences with online dating. After our date, I had all but decided that I wouldn't talk to her again because I'm not used to women acting like they're "scared" or "suspicious" of me for no apparent reason. But when she called me the next day, the message she left reminded me of how sweet she was while we talked on the phone BEFORE we met in person. So I'll give it, her, us, one more shot. ONE. But now, I'm a little more cautious of her intentions after we met because her behavior made me apprehensive about letting her get closer to me.

But back to Yahoo personals in general. It doesn't seem like the type of dating site for honest people looking for real connections. It seems more like a "hookup" site for people too shallow and unstable for anything more than a "hit and run" situation. And of course, there's the fake profiles that proclaim their obsessive attraction to you with their e-mails and sometimes phone numbers attached. Also, it seems that the more attractive a woman is on the site, the more demanding, unrealistic and shallow she seems to be... which is in direct correlation with why some of the most attractive women have been on the site the longest.

So this'll be my 1st and last time on Yahoo Personals... but I'd bet 10 to 1 that if I browsed it 3 years from now, many of the same women will still be there "looking" to be "looked at". In the meantime, I'll see how "chapter 2" with the "semi-sane" woman I met turns out. Maybe she just needs another hug. LOL!

What I got in Yahoo Personals was emails from Yahoo Personals itself, using a profile from their site, trying to entice me to subscribe. I figured it out by contacting someone who had supposedly contacted me. I contacted them through their profile, rather than as a reply to "their" email, and asked them if they had contacted me. The answer, of course, was no. Don't waste your money there. It's impossible to tell what's real.

There are many fake profiles on this site. I have made contact with several people pretending to be beautiful women and leading people on then they make up a sad story about how the lost their parents and are trapped in Nigeria with hospital bills and the hospital wont return their tickets until they pay for the hospital fees. There are probably a couple of real people on here but 99% of the beautiful women on there are FAKE. The importers will bait you with fake stories and try to get you to send them money before you ever meet in person.