Yahoo Personals

Free membership:

Yes.

With a free membership you can:

• Search the database for profiles you like
• Post your profile with a photo
• Have matches sent to you by email
• Take the Relationship test and Personality " & Love Style Test
• Send a free Icebreaker message
• Read advice features and other articles on site

You can’t send email or instant messages unless you pay.

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Paid membership:

Yahoo online dating offers two levels of paid membership: Subscription and Premier

With a Subscription membership you can::

• Post your profile with a photo
• View your matches
• Send emails and IM messages to Subscription and Free members
• Use the search function to find free and Subscription members
• Use instant messaging
• Take the Relationship test and Personality & Love Style Test
• Send Icebreakers
• Have new matches sent to you by email
• See who's viewed your profile

Premier membership::

Premier Members of Yahoo online dating can do all of the above, plus:

• Send emails and IM messages to anyone you want (Premier, Subscription and Free members)
• Rate your matches (give feedback)
• Take the Relationship test and Personality & Love Style Test and have that factored into your searches and matches
• Search for Premier members

Payment options: Credit card

Renewal: Automatic renewal of whichever plan you’ve gone for. You can unsubscribe/turn off the renewal from your Billing Accounts page.

Open to: US and Canada – other nationalities need to go to their national Yahoo site (UK & Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Australia & NZ, China, Hong Kong, & Taiwan)

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Features:

• Photo profiles
• Search function
• Secure onsite email
• Relationship test
• Icebreakers
• Instant messaging
• Onsite articles and advice features

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We like:

Yahoo Personals will show you members in your area before you fill out anything more than your name and location.

All of your personal information is confidential, and communication between members is anonymous.

Yahoo online dating has clear code of conduct guidelines, profile writing tips, photo tips, and online dating safety tips.

The profile questions are fun and quite comprehensive: TV watching habits, leisure habits, sense of humour, smoking, religion etc.

You can opt to have new matches sent to your own email address

We don’t like:

Compared to some of the other paid dating sites, Yahoo Personals offers fewer options. But you may prefer a more pared down style anyway, and if the result is the same…

No real indication of how many members they have.

Like many online dating sites, Yahoo Personals are frequently advertised as “free”, but only up to the point at which you want to contact a potential date; to do more than "nudge", "wink" or "Icebreak", you have to become a paid subscriber.

Click here to visit the Yahoo! Personals home page

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