Using Personal and Personal Ads

Personals and personal ads can play an important role in finding a partner but for many singles, dating is still a matter of meeting people in a bar, or at work or at a club at a weekend. Personal ads appear to have had a stigma to many  - as if this confirms they have failed in meeting people in every other way. This stigma as an idea that comes from an old aged idea of desperation, being left on the shelf, being needy to find someone. But this concept is completely wrong.

Personal ads have a long history and have appeared in magazines and newspapers for decades. It has always fascinated me how traditionally, people could successfully describe themselves in so few words. Essentially in no more than a short paragraph you had to encapsulate all the things that made you you. Some I have read have been ingenious and extremely well written but the problem lays in that the readership is often very specialized or localized and you don't really have much ability to shine within such a small space. With recent personal ads being tied in heavily with expensive premium phone rate services often around $2 a minute to listen to messages then magazine personal ads can be the expensive way to date.

With the advent of the Internet, personal ads have moved to the exciting new realm of the Internet. Personals now come in many different designs and forms, with comprehensive profiling, multi photo styling and secure and safe methods of instant communication. In fact personal ads online have become chic, classic, safe, secure and extremely trendy. The professional dating agencies are now offering superb personal ad services and its almost always free to create a new personal ad for yourself. The top professional sites will offer extremely comprehensive online profiling that you create and manage. You answer which questions you choose from a box of multiple choice answers. In the case of a site like LoveBrowser.com, this is more than 100 questions and 1000 answers. You then get the option of answering some key questions in your own words and then you can also add multiple photos of you would like to.

Before creating a personal ad, think about yourself and make a small note of some of your attributes in an honest way. Think about who you are looking to meet and how you could summarize this in a  few words. Many personal ads sites, like LoveBrowser, allow you the option of adding your own words to explain who you are looking for, and a few words about yourself. Like writing an ad, it is very difficult to get perfect. If I was to ask you to describe yourself in less than 25 words could you do it now? So give it some thought. Professional sites like our sister site, LoveBrowser.com, do allow you to write much more in fact but having more space doesn't make it any less easy. So planning is the key to writing a great personal ad.

If you use a personal ads site where your profile takes less than a couple of minutes to create you may be wasting your time. Professional Personals sites offer you a comprehensive profile which takes some time to complete fully. It is not just about answering questions but about answering them properly and putting in some thought as to how you would like others to see yourself.

The process of creating a personal ad is generally as follows:

• First go to the website registration screen and enter a made up name and password to protect your identity
• Next enter your email address so that you can receive a password reminder
• Enter your location and date of birth so that your age is listed correctly to help you search
• Finally select what gender you are and that is it - you are registered
• Once registered remember you can delete your membership instantly at any time
• Now create your personal ad by going to My Profile in the menu and select which are of your personal ads you wish to complete
• Next work through the other areas of My profile, building up a picture of yourself for other members
• Finally add a photo or two to your personal ad because this attracts many more members to come and look
• Finally your personal ad is live and available for members worldwide to view and appreciate. Maybe they will get in touch.
• Remember that dating sites keep personal ads safe and secure and your real email address is never displayed to others

Personal ads are funky, amusing, great fun and very sociable. There is no longer any stigma attached. Instead, personal ads are here to stay as part of a normal modern expressive and dynamic lifestyle. If personal ads are the way modern professional meet then its time you joined this very sociable way of dating.