www.singlesnet.com

www.SINGLESNET.COM: FOR THAT 30-SECOND DATING ACCOUNT

Despite all the success stories that all dating websites post as a matter of course, I personally know of only one couple whose online - and then offline - relationship ended in a walk down the aisle, and Adrian and Sophia met on www.singlesnet.com, he is in Newark and she is in Atlanta. As a fairly frequent visitor on dating sites, I am inclined to take the success stories that many of them post with a pinch of salt.

Not so with Singlesnet.com however. There's a popular theory about dating sites that holds that if the layout and design look tacky and cheesy, the dating service probably is, too. All such thoughts vanish when you arrive at www.singlesnet.com because it is arguably one of the classiest looking dating websites that I have come across with soft colors, clean lines and high-quality photographs.

Dating online is always a tricky business, largely because so many potential dates assume false identities and personas that you can't always separate the wheat from the chaff. In that context, Singlesnet.com is safer than a lot of others because it charges a fee for its services, though a short-term trial version is available, and that perhaps helps keep out those who just sign on for a lark on many free dating sites. At any rate, my experiences with the site have always been positive.

And of course, there's the 30-second account creator, which makes Singlesnet.com extremely easy to use and navigate. Once you sign on, and you can't browse the site's different sections unless you do, you will be able to access a number of facilities such as the compatibility software. And believe me, with close to 1,400,000 members to sift through, you will need that software if you are to make any headway at all.

As with most dating sites, once you sign on at Singlesnet.com you will be able to create your profile and contact members through the zip code search. Understandably, such a huge database of members indicates that you will literally have the world to choose from, though in the US alone, close to 40 million people use online dating services.

Chances are that at the end of your free trial membership period, you will want to continue at a price. Even during the trial period, however, you are free to contact members, receive and read e-mails from members, reply to e-mails from members, create your own personality profile, and use the compatibility matching system and view photos.