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Online Personals
By Jayde Johanssen | June 26, 2009
No doubt, you’ve seen it on the silver screen. You’ve heard friends talk about it. Maybe you’ve even thought about taking the plunge yourself. The fact is online personals have become incredibly popular.
This whole online dating, online personals thing was in the making for years. With the dawning of the internet age and the invasion of emails and instant messaging, online dating was but a natural progression.
And while in its infancy taking out online personals and hooking up with strangers across the ether was looked upon as, well, weird, today it’s a norm. Millions of people, young and old, across the world, are joining up and logging in to find their true love connection through the world wide web.
The whole system is a work of genius. Charging a membership fee to allow singles to browse personal profiles is pure gold. Today the online personals industry is booming.
Popular dating sites like Yahoo Personals and eHarmony have seen their membership rates more than double. Online dating has definitely made it in the mainstream market. Back in August of 2003 over 40 million people visited an online dating site. Today that number just keeps growing.
If you aren’t up to speed with this world of online personals, it may seem like a complete mystery. But its actually pretty simple, and it makes sense. Personals are simply profiles. If you have a profile on a social networking site like Facebook or Bebo, then you already have a grasp of online personals. These are slightly more tailored than regular profiles, however. They include info about your physical characteristics, your weight, your hair color, your ethnicity, your lifestyle choices, your social background, your religion and even your eating and drinking and partying habits. Users usually include a quick description of themselves and they also jot down something about what they are looking for in a mate.
Users contact and connect via site based messaging. Most online personal sites also have a system in place for users to express interest without actually saying anything concrete, e.g. winking or poking. The idea is that users can browse through profiles, find someone that tickles their fancy, contact them and eventually meet up, face to face, for a real date.
Users of online dating sites are sold on the idea of finding their one true love on the internet. For many people, online personals are simply easier. It’s more targeted, precise. Whereas, offline, you go to a club and mingle, hoping that someone at that particular place and time will prove to be date-worthy, online, it’s not so ambiguous. Online you simply take a few minutes to browse through profiles and you choose the ones that look appealing. It’s easy as pie.
Your true love could be a mouse click away.
Of course the online dating scene isn’t without its pitfalls. Many people tend to fib. They exaggerate their physical characteristics. They put down phony birth dates, they lower their weight, they make themselves taller, blonder, tanner than they really are. Some people even post fake pictures.
But these types of fisherman’s stories can usually be rooted out easily. For the most part, online dating works wonderfully. People really can meet their one and only on the net.
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