Valentine's day specials for singles

I was reading an article recently about how to enjoy your singleness on Valentine's day. Instead of writing an ode to singleness I simply wanted to point out the fact that as V day is approaching many dating sites are offering specials. While there are sites that offer special promotions every now and then, some seem to only do so when Valentine's day is near.

So what's a single person to do? Well, if you've been considering joining a dating site but didn't want to spend too much money on it, now is the time. Seriously! I'll simply tell you about the sites I know of who have specials, whether they offer extended free trials or free upgrades. Before I list the sites I would advise you not to join those sites to find a date for Valentine's day because frankly you won't have enough time to get to know the people you'll be meeting on those sites enough to be already going out on a date alone with them. And when you do find someone that you got to know and like enough to go out on a date with, remember, safety first. Pick the offer and the site you find most appealing and good luck.

1- Worldfriends
Once again is having a Valentine's day promotion where you get double the time you pay for. For example if you buy a 3 month membership you get an additional 3 months free or if you buy a 6 month membership you get 6 more months free, likewise, if you pay for 12 months you get 12 additional months for free. It's a great deal. Even if you only buy a modest 1 month membership you get not one but 2 additional months for free. The more time you get to spend as a premium member, the more people you'll be able to contact. If you can afford it, I would recommend the VIP+Open Club membership which gives you all the premium benefits one can have on Worldfriends. Register right now on Worldfriends for free.

2- Lavalife
Lavalife is offering a 7 Day FREE Trial for this Valentine period, instead of the usual 24 hours free trial. You can't be cheaper than free. It's only 7 days but if you really enjoy being on the site you might want to stay longer. You need to register soon because this offer expires in 8 days. Lavalife is a very popular dating site so you will find many potential matches. Use those 7 days to search and browse profiles and to initiate contact, see what happens. Register right now on Lavalife for your free trial.


3- Matchmaker
Matchmaker is offering a 10 day free trial, it's free and they don't ask you for your credit card when you register for the trial period. Did I say it's free? You'll have a little more than a week to find out if Matchmaker is the right site for you. Since this is a special promotion period there will probably be more active members on the site during that period than usual which is good for you of course. Another good thing about this promotion is that it ends only on February 28th so you've got lots of time to try the other two sites first ;). Register before the end of the month on Matchmaker for your 10 day free trial


Those are only three of the many dating sites with promotions for this Valentine period, try them out or check the dating sites you're already registered with and see if they are not offering special Valentine's day promotions too.


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Worldfriends Valentine's day special

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If you're a members who subscribes for a VIP, OpenClub or VIP+OpenClub membership for the first time, Worldfriends will double your subscription's duration. Even better for the members who subscribe for a whole year, the subscription will be converted to a lifetime subscription. But there is a deadline for those incredible deals, it's midnight on February 14th. Which leaves you about 8 days to finally upgrade your Worldfriends membership.

I personally prefer the VIP membership because it gives you complete control over who you're in contact with. But if you are the very busy type and don't have time to browse profiles in search of the best matches OpenClub might be right for you because it allows others to contact you for free. Some people have both to put all the chances on their side. I've made quite a few friends on Worldfriends, maybe too many...

So what I previously called an unbelievable promotion is not going to be around for ever, of course not! I still can't believe they are offering life long premium memberships!!!

One important detail to keep in mind. This offer is only valid for new subscribers. If you had already subscribed in the past you are not eligible for this new offer. I believe the people at Worldfriends are making an effort to attract new subscribers. Maybe a promotion aimed at old subscribers will be revealed in the future. In the mean time, with the all the new VIP and OpenClub members, you might have many more matches contacting you.

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See Worldfriends' Valentine's day special

Worldfriends is having a crazy, unbelievable promotion right now, for new subscribers. When you subscribe for 1 month of VIP membership you get 3 months VIP membership instead, that's an additional 2 months free. I told you it is crazy but it gets better. You buy 3 months of VIP you get 6 months, you buy 6 months you get 12 months and last and craziest of all you buy 12 months and you become a Worldfriends VIP for life!

I've never heard of a lifetime membership for the price of a 1 year membership, no other offer can beat that one. So it's now or never, if you were already a Worldfriends member and never upgraded now is your chance to do it for life. There are also promotions for Open Club members, you buy 3 months of Open Club membership and get 6 months. It is said that Open club members receive on average one email a day on Worldfriends, so that might just be the type of membership you need.

But what is better than a life time VIP membership on Worldfriends? I'll tell you, a lifetime VIP+OpenClub membership! Yes, if you purshase 12 months VIP+OpenClub membership from Worldfriends they give you the VIP+OpenClub membership for life! It's too tempting.

As I like to say, even as a free member on Worldfriends you receive more service than you'll ever do as a member of any free dating/language exchange/penpal/friendship site out there. For those of you who think Worldfriends is a little expensive I can tell you from experience that the service is worth the money you pay for it. They accept both Paypal and credit card payments.

I can't believe they aren't making more noise with this. I don't know how long this promotion is going to last but I wouldn't wait around too long if I were you.

Now for those of you who have not yet joined Worldfriends, let me give you a little insight.

Worldfriends is a web site that connects people who are looking for language exchange partners or language teachers, penpals, dates, activity partners or a life partner or simply someone to show them around town while they are abroad. Shortly put, they are looking to meet people online for various reasons. It's for adults only, meaning that you must be 18 or over to join.

Worldfriends is for internationally minded adults who are serious about meeting people from different cultures and backgrounds. There is a large group of Asian members and members from Oceania. There is a huge number of Japanese members wishing to meet people to help them practice English and offering to help with learning Japanese. In fact, there is also a really great number of non-Japanese members wanting to learn the Japanese language and looking for a native Japanese speaker to help them. Also there are many people who are about to visit Japan and want to make a Japanese friend before they arrive there. It's the ideal place to find a Japanese friend online to help you learn Japanese.

Six quick facts about Worldfriends:

1. They have over 1,400,000 members and 650,000 photos from all countries around the world.
2. The members detailed information that is submitted in their profiles is used to find your desired match.
3. You may search and browse full profiles even as a free member.
4. Contact on worldfriends can be done by email, text messaging voice chat or video chat
5. OpenClub membership allows free members to contact you for free. It allows you to be found and contacted for free by any member who is interested in you.
6. VIP membership allows you to contact only the members that you wish to contact.

I believe I've said enough but if you need more convincing head over to Worldfriends right now.

Another Free communication weekend at eHarmony

I wasn't aware of it before but eHarmony has a free communication weekend every once in a while. The latest one will start this Friday. I already wrote might thoughts on the free communication weekend at eHarmony, read it before you join eHarmony to take advantage of this special promotion.

The free communication weekend at eHarmony starts Friday, November 16th and ends Monday, November 19th. I've turned my matching off the last time because my matches did not respond to me at all, I figured it was pointless. In fact I was going to delete my account altogether but just didn't find a way to do so, I may have to write to eHarmony and ask them to do it for me.

Actually instead of going through eHarmony's extremely long sign up processes you should join instead. Sign up and search for people with Open Club membership in your desired area, you can contact them for free. Before you start initiating contact on Worldfriends I suggest you add a photo, a profile with a photo is more likely to get response than one without a photo. Knowing that people with Open Club memberships are likely to receive a whole lot of message you do want to stand out from all the other people contacting the person you're interested in.


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Meeting people online - part I

The name change of my blog brought people with new queries like "meeting people online" or "how to meet people online". I though I'd write a bit on the topic.

Meeting people is one of the easiest things to do online, it's even some people's favorite online activity. In fact when it comes to meeting people online, the most valuable information is not the how-to but rather the what-to-avoid. To the younger readers I recommend this article about online meetings, read it before you read the rest of this post.

If you want to find a person to exchange emails with I will recommend Penpalnet.com, it's a completely free service, you are able to search people and contact them or be contacted by them for free.

They have a very large database and if you log regularly on the site your profile will appear on top of other user's searches provided they are looking for a person with your profile, and thus you will be contacted by a certain number of people. Keep in mind that it's a free service, there are a few limitations, you can only search people by age and/or sex and/or location. Typically the top results will be that of other users who've logged in the most recently -they do not say this explicitly-. The age range of members is very wide. They do not give you information on the last login time of the users, which would be convenient at least you would know who has been active lately. There are no photos on profiles (but that shouldn't be a problem...). A friend told me there is a limit to the number of messages you may send on a single day. When you write a reply to a message you don't have the possibility to view the original message unless you've copied it on a text editor or opened it in another window/tab. Be careful if you log in everyday you might want to make your profile invisible otherwise you might have a few new people contacting you weekly. Of course you might be one of those fortunate who do not mind starting (and keeping) new e-friendships on a weekly basis. I know I’m not one of those.

Penpalnet.com is completely free, it's simple and easy to use, and they have a very large number of users. With a little patience and persistence you might just find the type of person you are looking for.

If you are mostly interested in meeting people from Asia and are willing to pay a little I will recommend another service I've used for a while, it's called Teletextfriends (it's based in Singapore), or rather I would recommend the clone service Worldfriends (with the same user data base but with the added option to send smiles to people you are interested in contacting, actually it seems Teletextfriends is Worldfriend’s clone).

A large number of members do take the time to fill out their detailed profile and to add a picture, they also provide and indication of whether another member is compatible with you based on the information provided on both of your profiles regarding what each other is looking for. But, in order to send messages to people you must be a premium member. A non-premium member may contact you only if you have purchased an open membership, which is different from regular membership. A premium member is not necessarily an open club member. The advantage of open club is that it allows other members who "find" you to initiate contact. The system tells you when other members view your profile, you always know who's looking at you. If you use these services I recommend you take the necessary time to fill out your profile as completely as possible.

If you want a meeting method that's faster than the two I've mentioned so far consider using Instant Messaging (IM) programs.

Yahoo! Messenger allows the users who are over 18 to access public chat rooms. The chat rooms are grouped by theme. Once you are inside a room you may join or initiate a conversation with others inside the room or even exchange instant messages with those that I've enabled that feature -by default you are not able to receive IMs from people who are not on your contact list you have to enable the feature in your preferences- . Depending on your profile or on whether you are chatting inside the room and depending on the population of that room other users might receive [too] many IMs. Be aware of the presents of "bots" in practically all the Yahoo! chat rooms. Bots? Yes, programs that are conceived to masquerade as people, most of them have female IDs, sometimes they might even come in pairs chatting inside the room etc... They will send you IM, most of the time, it's a link DO NOT CLICK the link. Ignore the user. A real person will (should) be decent enough to say "hi" (or some equivalent) first.

You can also search for people to chat with in Yahoo!'s members directory. I recommend filling out your Yahoo! profile with at least the basic information i.e. age and sex, no need to put your home address or anything like that. You might also consider putting a picture. Keep in mind that if you are a woman, and you put a picture on your profile with your age and location then any given time your status is "online" you are likely to receive IMs from people (men) in your area -at least that's what happens to me-. Try using advance search for better results.

ICQ is also another IM program you can use, it allows you to search for online users based on their profile (age, sex, interests, location etc..). It's pretty efficient, though it's critical that you fill your profile so the other users can know you are a real person otherwise they might think you are a bot and not accept your messages.

As long as you have the possibility to write/chat with another person on the web whether is because he/she put his/her contact information on a web page or whether you are both a member of a certain web community, there is the possibility to start an e-relationship that might lead to a lasting friendship.

As for meeting your future spouse online, yes it might happen but this is not what this post was all about. Right?

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