Christian Mingle Review
October 2, 2009 by david
Filed under Dating Site Reviews
Christian Mingle is one of the top Christian dating sites online. You can see with their hundreds of success stories that they are a leader in Christian dating. Their site has video instant messaging, live chat, and much more.
You can initiate contact with others for free, and search through photos of singles near you. There are over 1,000 new members daily!
Site name: Christian Mingle
Categories: Christian
Free Trial: Yes
Regions: USA & Canada
Orientation: Heterosexual
Relationships Sought:
- Friendship
- Pen Pals
- A Date
- Marriage
Services/Offered Ways to Connect:
- Chat Rooms,
- Message Boards
- Instant Messaging
- Profiles and Photographs of Single Men and Women
- FAQ
- Anonymous Personals
Testimonials:
We are anxious to see what God has in store for both of us..
Chris and I met on Friday, July 31st in the 20’s chat room. We were goofing around, and I was sitting on the mingle couch, as we like to talk about in the chat room. Chris decided to take a flying leap onto the couch, and sent me flying off of it. After that, we started talking a little, and he sent me a smile. I sent him a smile, and we’ve been talking ever since. We officially started dating on August 16, 2009, and I went out to visit him in Omaha 2 weeks ago, and then also last weekend. My friend and I are taking a trip next week to Omaha to see him, and then flying to LA. We have already planned on one of us moving to the other one (a lot of it will depend on where I can get a job and start my career), and we plan on doing that in the next few months or so. We also have talked about getting married, which we think God has planned for us. We are anxious to see what God has in store for both of us, but we’re pretty sure it’s for us to be together for the rest of our lives.
Erin8201 & Cde2227
Visit Christian Mingle!
BlackSingles Review
October 2, 2009 by david
Filed under Dating Site Reviews
BlackSingles.com was started in 2002 under the name BlackSinglesConnection. Black Singles is an online community crated specifically for African American singles looking for a life-long partner, friends, or just a date. It has e-mail, chat rooms, message boards, instant messaging, and more.
Site name: BlackSingles.com
Categories: Regional/Ethnic African American
Free Trial: Yes
Regions: US & Canada
Orientation: Heterosexual
Relationships Sought:
- Friendship
- Pen Pals
- A Date
- Marriage
Services/Offered Ways to Connect
- Free personal profile
- Free personal photo album
- Free Color Code personality profile
- Free smiles (icebreakers)
- Free cards
- Quick and advanced searching
- Instant messaging
- Message boards
- Chat rooms
Testimonials
“I’ve never been one to get on a dating website. I kept getting mail from BlackSingles, so one day I decided to try it out. I joined BlackSingles on July 16, 2006 for one month. The last day that my contract was to end I met my true love, which was on August 16 around 8:30 pm. I only had a couple of hours left. I IM’ed him and he did not response back right away. Then later on he response back to me. He gave me his phone number and we had a long talk. Then after a couple of days we met. He was everything that I wanted in a man. After 3 months we moved in together. We have been together for 2 years. Then on my birthday July 18, 2008, he surprised me in bed with breakfast and had an engagement ring on the handle of a fork. Of course I accepted. We are very happy. We got married on April 17, 2009. Thank you BlackSingles! I never thought that I would find happiness like I have with Khamil. I have the best husband that I could ever ask for. We will be together 3 years on August 16, 2009. For anyone that does not believe that you can find your mate on BlackSingles, I am telling you that you can. Thanks again!”
Mr & Mrs Khamil
bjslove & khamilali2
American Singles Review
October 2, 2009 by david
Filed under Dating Site Reviews
American Singles is an online dating site in the SparkNetwork. They have been around since 1995, bringing millions of singles together for friendship, dating, and romance. They’ve been able to build many relationships and help many singles meet their lifelong match.
They claim to be different than other dating services based on their lower prices, e-cards, message boards, chat rooms, and more.
All you need to do is create your profile, post a few photos (up to 4) and begin your foray into online dating. If you upgrade to their premium membership service, you’ll have e-mail & instant messaging services. Don’t be afraid that you won’t find someone – there are millions of members, so there’s plenty of people for you to choose from!
Site name: American Singles
Categories: Matchmaking, Dating
Free Trial: Yes – Free to create a profile, post photos & search for other members
Regions: The World
Orientation: Heterosexual , Gay, Lesbian
Relationships Sought:
Services/Offered Ways to Connect:
- Who’s online
- Real Time Chat
- Anonymity
- Instant Messaging
- Toll Free Customer Service
- Ignore List
- Hot Lists
The site is very well organized, and you don’t have to pay a single cent to sign up and start looking for a match. They also have sections for you explaining online dating safety and how to create the best free dating profile.
Getting Over The Stigma of Online Dating
September 23, 2009 by david
Filed under News & Articles
If you look online for information about online dating, you might come across articles like “Online Dating: Only For The Desperate?” or “Online Dating Stigma – Is It Gone?”
Now, it’s up for debate whether the stigma is gone or not – online dating sites (all of them combined) have well over 20 million members. Match.com alone has 15 million members!
The ultimate sign that online dating went mainstream was when Dr. Phil joined forces with Match.com to offer dating advice. However, even with Dr. Phil’s stamp of approval & the massive membership bases of these online dating sites, a stigma still surrounds the concept of online dating.
Granted, it has lessened over the years, but it’s still there. You will still find some couples trying to conceal the fact that they’ve met on the internet. For a while, I was very much against the concept of online dating. I felt like it was the easy way out – that I would be giving up on the concept of meeting people in person if I signed up for a dating site. I felt like it would make me a weak person.
In reality though – that’s an awfully silly way to think about it. First off – just because you sign up for an online dating site doesn’t mean you’re giving up on looking for love in the “traditional” ways. It’s just another avenue for you to find relationships. You can still go out to bars, clubs, libraries, parks, wherever you would look for interesting people and try to meet them there. There is no clause in your membership to online dating sites that says you can’t go outside.
With that said – just because YOU might be over the stigma of online dating doesn’t mean your friends will be. Though you shouldn’t really have to justify your actions to them, if you feel the need, here are some good ways to explain why online dating is beneficial to you – with some cheesy metaphors:
1. People in business are always talking about the concept of ‘multiple streams of income’ – why can’t you have multiple streams of dating opportunities? This allows you to find dating opportunities all the time, any time.
2. In the world of advertising, finding targeted buyers for what you are selling is the ultimate goal of your advertisements. When you see someone of the opposite sex walking down the street, you know nothing about them. In online dating, you can sift through people’s profiles and find out if they fit your type, and pick out the people who are specifically compatible with you. This saves you a lot of work, and will lower your failure rate in dating significantly.
3. The internet is designed to connect people. You’re just taking advantage of the resources given to you.
The truth is though – if you see an opportunity, take it. Online dating is a great opportunity for you. What do care about more, what your friends think, or finding the love of your life? Think like Machiavelli – the end justifies the means. You think you will care what your friends think if you’ve found the love of your life, even if it was from online dating? I don’t think so.
Now get out there!
Top 10 Dating Movies
September 21, 2009 by david
Filed under Product & Service Reviews
Looking to stay in with your date? Here’s our top 10 list of date movies – stock up now so that you don’t have to worry later!
Jerry Maguire
Love Actually
About a Boy
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Say Anything
Intolerable Cruelty
The Wedding Singer
50 First Dates
Hitch
Dirty Dancing (20th Anniversary Edition)
I like to call my stock of good movies my “dating arsenal” – you have to make sure that you have the right movie for the right person! If you want to avoid waiting for your DVD to arrive in the mail, amazon has a cool new on-demand service that is similar to Netflix – you can rent/purchase movies for around 5.99. It is definitely a good service to check out.
Amazon Video Rentals
