Personals

Find the best personals service in your area

Dating-experts specialises in creating rankings for personals listings and other forms of dating service in the UK. We recommend the sites that deliver the best service and have good numbers of singles spread across the UK. Here are our favourite personals services:

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Product Summary: C-date offers a unique service for men and women looking for casual adventures within a discreet and respectful environment. It is the perfect alternative if you looking for no-strings dates but are put off by the cheap or immature approach of many flirting and chat... (read more)

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Product Summary: Badoo is arguably the no1. hook up site in the UK, with great participation rates and ease of use. It styles itself the biggest Social Network for meeting new people.

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Product Summary: eharmony is a well known brand and market leader in computer based matchmaking. It delivers a really quality service to its clients and is one of the most visually attractive sites on the internet.

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Product Summary: Lovoo is one of the best places to meet singles for casual hook ups and fun dates. It’s very easy to find other singles who are close by and get chatting and flirting with them. It is available on mobile or desktop.

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Product Summary: High class adultery. That’s the offer from Gleeden, though singles are of course welcome too. A French import that hopes to spread a bit of Gaelic flavor across the channel.

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Product Summary: Are You Interested is perhaps the best known of the Facebook apps to hit the dating scene. A great place for causal hook ups and particularly easy to use due to its Facebook integration

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Product Summary: A popular app in the UK for flirting and chatting. Has a slightly more racey feel and higher levels of anonymity than many of its competitors.

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Product Summary: A service for those who want their personal lives to catch up with their professional success and believe in the power of algorithm based matching to deliver suitable partner recommendations, Elite Singles delivers high quality matching. Branded to be a self-selecting... (read more)

Personals are great ways to get together with like-minded others and explore your fantasies, hook up or arrange to chat. They tend to focus well on locality and have good results for regional cities or towns.

On the downside there are many aspects of the personals format that makes them less attractive to many. First and foremost, there is a lack of anonymity or discretion in a personals service. All personals listings are public and you cannot pick and choose who you share your profile information with or photos with in quite the same way as you can on a normal dating service. Then there is the slight confusion amongst many more casual users as to exactly what a personals listing does or implies. Are these people looking for causual hook ups, are they offering professional service, or are they just looking for a date? All ofthis can be a bit unclear. Finally there is the plain fact that personals are not very technologically advanced and require you to do all the work, scanning through them to find what you want.

Overall dating-experts recommends that people steer clear of personals listings and concentrate on finding suitable online dating agencies that will do a better job for them. There are a wide variety of types and we’re confident that whatever your tastes, the right site can be found. Have a look on our home page and get our top tips for which dating services we recommend.

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