Thursday, January 21, 2010

Principles Of Free Online Dating

By Shawn McWatson

Online dating is a service that allows individuals to meet and communicate with each other over the internet. The soul purposes for online dating sites, is to provide unsupervised matchmaking. Some of these services though are on a membership basis, which means that you have to pay for its use. There are, however some free online dating services.

Free online dating services rely on their advertising revenue in order to pay for their server fees and to maintain service. This means that it will take thousands of page views a day in order to promote and advertise other companies must be used on their sites in order to make money for them to provide services free of charge. This is what real "free" online dating services do.

Some sites may advertise that they are free, but actually charge fees. These sites are operating as a type of "freemium" model. This means that while some of their features may be completely free, there are other features of their site that are not. Some of these types of freemium based sites only have free registration and require you to pay a fee in order to communicate with other members.

Sometimes people get aggravated when it comes to finding a completely free online dating service. As impossible as it may seem, there are still a few completely free ones out there. Though they may not offer as many features as a paid service, they are still an efficient tool to use to meet potential matches for yourself.

Every dating site online, whether free, or membership based requires its users to go through a registration process. The reason for this is quite simple and obvious. Registration is considered a form of safety feature. As with anything you do in life you should always keep your personal safety as a top number one priority.

All online dating sites must conform to the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act (IMBRA) and the United States Government regulations of dating services. These laws require all internationally oriented dating servers and services to conduct sex offender checks on all United States. These customer checks have to be preformed prior to any communications commencing with a foreigner.

Although these federal laws are in place to help insure your safety, always take special precautions. Never give out too much information about yourself to anyone. Although these screens are preformed, never take chances when it comes to your safety and well being. No matter how well you may think you know someone, sometimes you find out that you do not know them at all. All that you may know is what they want you to know. Always keep safety a definite top of the list priority.

No matter whether a dating service is free, or requires a paid membership, always read the terms in advance so that you know what features their services include. By reading ahead you are guaranteed to not have any surprises when it comes to membership. You wouldn't want to be a free member and not be able to communicate or message anyone without having to pay would you? Of course you wouldn't so be certain to read the terms to avoid any not so pleasant surprises such as this.

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