One of the more popular uses of the Internet has been to use it to meet people. The growth of Online Personals
has been pretty dramatic over the last few years with a wide variety of sites focused on dating & chat.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of online dating & personals sites, and even more if you count the newspaper sites,
online magazines and personals marketplaces that have incorporated personals into their websites, for example:
Harvard Magazine: Personals
Oodle: Personals Marketplace
The number of personals sites online has grown dramatically over the last few years, although the largest players within the market
are the names most people recognize immediately, like:

FriendFinder
A Greater Date is one of the largest free online dating directories, and the focus is to help people find the type of
personals site that best meets their needs. There are a large number of sites offering
free trials to make it even easier to zero in on the right type site.
Aside from sites offering free trials, there are some personals sites that are completely free, offering photo personals,
chat, email & forums, for example:
Passions Network
Shy Passions
Romance Passions
Gay Passions : Gay Dating
There are hundreds of different types of personals sites online ranging from sites with a focus on
religion,
ethnicity & more.
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