Archive for December 25th, 2006:
Lava Life - Where Singles CLick
You can find whatever kind of connection you want on Lava Life. From dating to starting a relationship to enjoying an intimate encounter, it’s all there. To complete your profile you can also add a video introduction and keep up to six videos on file. You can have as many as ten photos as part of your profile, too. What’s great about the extra content is you can control how much of it is available to the general public and keep some of it only for special people to see by placing it in your “backstage†area that can only be accessed by those to whom you choose to send a pass. Finally, the latest addition to the profile options is creating a short, mini-mobile description to be used in a special Lava Life text messaging personals service available for your cell phone.
Quest Personals - Reviewed by Cupid
I’d seen advertisements on TV for Quest Personals. They looked like your basic infomercial, so I really hadn’t put much stock in what they were selling. As time passed, curiosity got the better of me so here’s what I found inside the site…
QuestPersonals.com has a lot to offer those who appreciate a detailed profile. Besides the usual questions about age and race, they have a few additional sections that include information such as favorite books and movies. They go into your career and work goals, without getting too specific. There’s a section where you can leave a voice greeting and they can even promote in your local paper if you want. Some of the questions might not suit you, but having them there allows you the room to express yourself in as much or as little detail as you’d like. It also may give you better insight into Mister or Misses Right, if you stumble across their profile.
“. . . we suggest you proceed with caution.â€Â
You’ll be pleased to know that Quest Personals gives you a number of search options to help narrow your results. You can sort by some of the basics such as age, ethnicity and smoking habits. The site is missing some other essential search options, though, such as by height and body type. Search results can be ordered based on last log-in date but it doesn’t tell you when a person last logged on, making it impossible to tell how busy the site is. This is a huge drawback to QuestPersonals.com so we suggest you proceed with caution.
MetroDate - Reviewed by Cupid
Metrodate.com is a dating site with urban flair. When it comes to design, it’s maybe not the most edgy with its lavender and amber graphics, but it has some features that are cooler than its colours. You don’t necessarily have to be from a major metropolis, but when you fill out your profile they will ask you the name of the biggest burg nearby. It sort of has a comic strip, larger-than-life, pop art feel to its interface that makes me think that if Clark Kent was going to try to meet Lois Lane online, he might login to this site. But generally, even if you’re not a part-time superhero in tights, you should feel very much at home here.
Filling out my free profile wasn’t so arduous a task as it sometimes feels at other sites. There were four pages of questions, just enough required information to give someone else a general idea of who I am without my having to reveal deep, dark childhood secrets or other private details of my life. Besides a photo, I also had the option to add a video introduction or a voice recording to my description. What impressed me most was that I was required to provide a photo in order to use their chat feature. I like when a site forces it subscribers to add a picture since it definitely improves the overall quality of the profiles. I gave this site a 9/10. I should also point out that you can earn a free month of service by adding a video to your Metrodate ad.
