Yahoo Personals

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Registered: 10-13-2005
Yahoo Personals
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Thu, 06-01-2006 - 5:21pm

Hey has anybody used the yahoo personals? i went up and filled out a profile and have gotten a couple of responses. now they want me to join so i can continue to communicate with these people. can you cancel on the 7 day free trial if you want or do you have to commit to a month or so.

thanks

bon

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Thu, 06-01-2006 - 9:22pm
I have no idea... but I would think that it would give you more definite info before you have to commit or enter payment information.

Karen ~ wildlucky4me

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Registered: 01-02-2004
Thu, 06-01-2006 - 10:56pm
I have met a guy friend on yahoo personals thats it.
The free plethyoffish.com has stacked my datebook.
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Registered: 10-13-2005
Mon, 06-12-2006 - 6:12pm

Ok So I have been up online for yahoo personals -- had a guy respond back and forth with me for a couple of emails. Then like a dope i hit the delete button one night by mistake and deleted my entire profile. Now I am trying to reconnect with this guy and no luck. Anyway I have to tell you -- I am comfortable with this at all. I think part of it is that I am so not ready to date anyone or even become friendly with them. Is this normal? I hate the bar scene -- hate it, hate it.

I don't like giving strangers much info on myself or my life right now. Anyone out there got any ideas?

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Registered: 10-13-2005
Tue, 06-13-2006 - 9:30pm
I meant to say I am not real comfortable with this.
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Registered: 05-06-2006
Thu, 06-15-2006 - 10:51pm

Hi Bon,

You know, if you are not comfortable with it, why push yourself?

I am not comfortable with posting information about myself either, so I try to keep it to a minimum. Plus, what I've done is last week I revised my profile so that it emphasizes that I just want to be friends. I'm not in a hurry to date. So far I've had pretty good results. I'm exchanging e-mail with two seemingly decent guys who understand that I don't want to get into a romantic relationship, I just want a couple of friends to do things with. I'll let you know if it works out.

Meanwhile, I don't know how yahoo personals works, but isn't there a record of past e-mail that you can look back on? That would give you the address of the guy you were e-mailing--if you want to e-mail him.

I agree with you about the bar scene. Have you tried book clubs and stuff like that? (Not that I have. It's just a thought.) I think that this "I want to date" stuff that goes with putting your name in a dating service is extremely stressful. If you don't want to do it now, just wait until you are ready.

Hang in there.
Elsa

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Registered: 01-05-2004
Thu, 06-15-2006 - 10:57pm

Totally agree! I have browsed through personals, but I haven't thrown myself up on any yet. I think I'd rather meet someone in a mutual interest (like a book club or something).

Maybe consider taking a college class at a community college that's just something elective that interests you? I know the local community college here takes all kinds. Or maybe there are some community rec classes you could take on something you've always wanted to do?

Food for thought!
:)
Good luck!
- JD

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Registered: 05-06-2006
Fri, 06-16-2006 - 10:45am

Community college classes, volunteer work, stuff like that is always good for meeting others. They do take time though!

I read somewhere that online dating is the main way that people over 45 are meeting other people. That makes sense, since most sensible people over 45 don't have much use for the bar scene and most of us are too busy to do an awful lot of other stuff besides our work.

But I think that getting active and involved in the community is fun in its own right and it is probably better in the long run than online dating.

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Registered: 06-15-2006
Fri, 06-16-2006 - 5:49pm
I tried yahoo last year. I liked it, but truth be told, I found webdate to work better for me because of the chat room feature
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Registered: 08-11-2006
Thu, 08-17-2006 - 9:09pm
I tried Yahoo for a monh and realized that many people on Match are also on Yahoo. Ugh.
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Registered: 08-09-2006
Tue, 08-22-2006 - 2:19am
I am still very new to this as well, but I will still throw in my limited experience. I have a profile on yahoo, mostly because I have the option there to list that I'm just interested in meeting people, not really dating. I had a few responses, and have kept up an email correspondence with 2. Actually, I just moved up to the phone with one of them. As for the free trial, yes I do believe you can cancel before you're charged, but I'm pretty sure they won't remind you when it's time. If I remember correctly, the way they put it is, if you meet someone, you won't care about the extra money spent on it. Whatever. I'm a single mom, so I will care about it! Good luck to you, and to all of us.

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