http://www.daterindistress.com/dating/free-online-service.html A free online dating service sounds inviting, but is a free online dating service really free? en-us Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:30:35 EST Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:30:35 EST Weblog Editor 2.0 With more and more people going online to look for love, you are probably also getting the fever and want to know a bit more about all of the dating services. It is a pretty exciting world out there on dating sites and it has been a great way for a lot of people who would never have met otherwise to hook up and connect. There have even been a few marriages that have some out of these sites. All of these things only add to our already intense interest in this world of dating in cyberspace. It seems so exciting and so very different than all of the ways that people used to go about dating. Tread carefully with a free online dating service Ok, so you are very eager to get online and start dating like crazy, right? We understand, but the thing that holds a lot of people back are the membership fees that most sites charge. Have you found a free online dating service? Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but it is probably not a free online dating service at all! Many sites advertising themselves as being free when in fact they are no more free than any of the other more popular sites out there. Unfortunately, the way that they tell you that you really must pay a fee is after you have already spent the time filling out their registration form and your profile. They might have allowed you to look at all the other users, but they did not tell you that you cannot communicate with any of them, in any way, until you pay up. This can be very frustrating after you have already put a fair amount of thought into your profile and might have even found an interesting profile or two. When you finally do find out that this free online dating service is not free after all, you will probably simply leave the site, even though your profile is up. Then, to add fuel to the fire, this site will constantly bombard your e-mail account (you needed to give one to register) with messages that say you have an e-mail or message waiting for you. Or that a certain amount of people have already viewed your profile and would you like to know who they were? The e-mails that you receive will have a place that you can click to be automatically logged onto your account, but alas you cannot retrieve any of the information that they are telling you is there - because you have yet to pay for the services of this free site! Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:30:35 EST