Did you hear about the ad campaign a
few Januarys ago, in which a woman named Julie lived for three days on a Sunset Strip billboard while she hunted for dates on Yahoo
Personals? (Julie's been dating a man she met there, Yahoo says.)
At the Yahoo! Personals megasite you can
try
Icebreakers: free one-time messages that any ad poster can send to another to let him or her know they're interested.
Yahoo! Personals
recipients also have the ability to respond with a free one-time reply.
Online dating can save precious time.
Our world is pretty big, we can now focus broadly and specifically at the
same time. "People don't automatically have the same cultural events to talk about," said Long Beach, Calif., psychotherapist and author Tina Tessina, who answers questions for Yahoo! Personals.
"We have so much choice that people at the water cooler haven't all seen the same thing, read the same book or heard the same news."
From the Decatur Dailey:
Shelly Martin and Dustin Davis, both previously married, met online through Yahoo! Personals and exchanged e-mails for some time before deciding to meet face to face in December at O'Charley's. They agreed only to be friends. They talked until 4 a.m. She kissed him goodnight. He went home and told his mom he had fallen head over heels in love with her.
Dustin is serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq.
In an army camp thousands of miles away, Davis, 30, awakened before dawn Thursday and dialed his mother's cell phone number.
"It's him," Randi mouthed to Shelley's parents, Wayne and Vicki. Shelley took the phone and repeated what she'd said to the families: "Of course I'll marry you."
