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Naughty Connect is an adult dating site that is designed to help like-minded people meet and hook up. The site has a nice looking tour and is very easy to sign up for. I was inside the site and looking around in no time. The member's area has a nice design to it and is well put together so using it is a breeze. There are a lot of members to this site with over 170,000 online at the time I was checking the site out and many thousands more offline.

Your free membership only gives you limited access to the different features of the site. You can do a basic search which will just list a bunch of members from your area. You can also look at people's profiles, but you can't look at their full size pictures. You also can't use the advanced search, instant messaging feature or some of the tools to contact people and improve your profile with just a free membership. One advantage of getting a paid membership is that your profile will jump to the top of the listings. This will help you get a lot more views so if you do decide to use this site that is something to consider.

I was a little bit let down with the lack of some features. There are no general chat rooms or user forums and I didn't see any support for webcams so you can't do cam 2 cam chatting with other people. These are features that a lot of adult dating sites are now offering and I would have loved to have seen them here.

Overall this is a pretty good, but not great, adult dating site. There are some nice features like instant messaging and an easy to use layout that make it worth checking out, but I was disappointed in the limited access you get with the free membership and the lack of some other features. That said, there are a lot of members on this site and that is its real saving grace. My suggestion would be to create a free membership and take a look. You can quickly browse your area and see how many people are near you and then decide from there if this is a site you want to continue to use.

Grad Finder is a not so much a dating site as it is a site that helps you get in touch with your former classmates. The site is pretty easy to use and well designed, but I have to admit that signing up for it was a pain. I filled out the short form, selected my school then was taken back the first form again. When I tried to fill it out again, it told me I was already in the database and prompted me to click a link to have my password sent to me. After three tries I finally got the password. Then when I log in I am told my profile had gotten corrupted so I had to fill it all out again.

At long last I got into the site and from here you can select your state, your schools of choice and the year you graduated. This will list all the members from that graduating year that have signed up for this site. Some schools seem to have a lot of members, others only have a few or none at all. You can create your own profile, upload pictures of yourself and contact anyone on the site all for free. There is no charge for the site, but there is some advertising inside the site.

How well this site works for you really will depend on how many of your classmates have registered for the site. It very well could be a good way to get in touch with some people you haven't seen in a while and maybe rekindle an old flame. However, if your school doesn't have many members on the site, the site won't really be of much use for you. It is free though, so you are out nothing to try and hopefully you will have an easier time signing up for it than I did.

Out Personals is a gay adult dating site that is focused on gay men although there is some trans-gender members as well. The site has a very well thought out design that is easy to navigate and use and I was very happy to see that joining and getting a free account was quick and easy. Once inside your free account will allow you to check out most of the site, but you can't look at individual profiles nor can you respond to anyone. That is pretty normal. What is not normal as that with your free membership you can use the chat rooms, watch people on their webcams, read the blogs and other things. While there may be some limits to how much of this stuff you can do at once, just being able to do it with your free membership is pretty cool.

The central part of the site, and its strongest feature, is the search engine. You can just do a general browse of the members or you can use the very detailed search engine to filter your results and find members that are looking of very specific things. You can also customize your profile to be as generic and vague as you want or as detailed as you would like. As mentioned above the site has a lot of great features including live chat rooms, webcam support, personal blogs, forums and a cool instant messenger that allows you to chat with other people that are online right then one on one.

There is a growing number of gay adult personals sites out there, but Out Personals was one of the first and it is still one of the best. With a lot of members, great features and an easy to use site it should be one of the first places anyone interested in gay adult personals should check out.

Loving BBW is a dating site for those who like plus-sized people. The site has a slick, easy to use design and looks nice. I did find the sign up process to be a little too long. I prefer to be allowed to skip most of that detail and fill it in later if I decide to use the site. Here they make you fill in most of that info, which kind of annoyed me.

Once inside the site I did a basic search for my area and found a lot of people. This site has a nice number of members so I feel just about anyone should have no trouble finding like-minded people in their area. There is a more detailed search which will help narrow down your results, but you need to upgrade to a paid membership in order to use that. The other primary feature of the site is an instant message program that allows you to IM people who are online at the same time you are. There are some minor features as well that include ways to manage your friends lists and the ability to post a video greeting on your profile. As with the advanced search most of these features also require a paid membership to use. The good news is that the paid membership is very affordable and there are some other benefits of getting one including using a tool they call the “Personality Match”.

For the most part this is a pretty standard dating site. They have some good features, but there are also a few negative aspects to it. As far as price goes, it is one of the most affordable sites around. I liked the features offered, but wished there were a little more like general chat rooms or user forums. I have seen a hand full of BBW and plus-sized dating sites recently and I would rank this one somewhere in the middle of those. It isn't bad, but it isn't great either. The price does give it a little kick though so it is worth checking out for that reason alone.

Yellow Jacket Singles is a dating site that is aimed at the single students, alumni and fans of the Georgia Institute of Technology. While you don't have to be affiliated with the school in any way to use this site you should at least live in the general area of the site. The main reason for this is because almost all of the members of this site live in or around the school so if you are not in that area there will not be any members near you and the site will not be of much use.

I found the site to have a nice, clean and basic design that made navigating it very easy. When signing up for your free membership you can choose to fill in all of the details for your profile, or you can opt (like I did) to skip them and fill them in later. I like that they give you this choice because I prefer to be able to check a site out and see if it is something I want to use before I spend the time and effort getting my profile just right. The site offers you a couple of different search options to help you find other members. The basic search allows you to specify an age range and a distance from you and sorts the members using that criteria. The more advanced option is called Smart Match. It takes the details from your profile and uses them to match you up with compatible people. You can search the site, create your profile and read other people's profiles with your free membership. You only need to buy a paid membership if you want to contact people or read emails sent to you.

As much as I liked the search options they are the only real feature on this site. There are no chat rooms, instant messaging options or user forums. I was pretty disappointed with the lack of these extra features.

What it boils down to with this site is that it is all about where you live. If you don't live near the school then realistically the site will have very little value to you. Most people will fall into this category which is why I rated the site on the lower end. However, if you do live near the school or you are affiliated with the school then you should give it a try. There are around 800 members in the site and they all will live in your area so you have a good shot at finding someone that you are into.

Splashed in Cougar colors WSU Singles is a good looking dating site that is directed primarily towards the single students, staff, alumni and friends of Washington State University. This is not to say you can't use the site if you are not in one of the aforementioned groups, but I must explain that almost all of the members of this site live in and around the university. So if you aren't in the general area of this school then you won't have any members living near you and the site is basically useless to you.

For those that are in the correct area, you will find the site to be very easy to sign up for. As you sign up you are filling in your profile, but they let you skip most of the detail and fill it in later if you want. The site is very easy to use and has a nice, simple design. With around 1,200 members you will want to use the search tools to help narrow down the list of people you are interested in. The basic search tool allows you to select a distance (down to within five miles of your zip code) and an age range and it uses those criteria to filter the results. The advanced search, called Smart Match, will take the information and details from your profile and use them to match you with people of similar interests. If you didn't fill in all these details when you signed up you will need to go back and do that before the Smart Match will work correctly. You can search the site, create your profile and look at other people's profiles with your free membership. You only need to get a paid membership if you want to contact people directly.

I did decide to rate this site on the lower end for a couple of reasons. The main reason is the very local nature of the site. Those not living in the area (which will be most people) will have little use for the site. The other reason is that the site also lacks any kind of interactive features. There are no chat rooms, instant messaging or anything like that. However, if you are affiliated with the school or you do live in the general area of it, then I suggest you do give it a try. Since all of the members will be local to you then odds are in your favor that you will find someone you like. Since you can try it out for free, you are out nothing to give it a look.

If you are a single Wolverine or you just happen to live in the area of the University of Michigan, then Wolverine Singles is a site that you will probably enjoy. If you aren't involved with the school or you don't live near it then, sadly, the odds are you will find little value in this site. You can still join and use the site, but almost all of the 5,000 members live in or around the school so if you don't then the odds are there will be no members in your area.

Now that the bad new is out-of-the-way, let's look at some of the good things about this site. I found signing up for the site to be a fast and easy proposition. The profiles can be pretty detailed, but they do let you skip filling in a lot of that detail when you sign up. I like that option because I prefer to check out a site and see if it is going to be something I want to use before I bother filling in all the details on my profile. There is a couple of different search features you can use to help you sift through all of the members of this site. The basic search option allows you to search people by age range and distance from you. There is also a more advanced search called Smart Match. This option takes the information from your profile and uses it to match you with like-minded people.

As nice as these features are, sadly, they are the only features on the site. I was disappointed by the lack of any other interactive features like chat rooms or user forums and instant messaging.

While I did score this site on the lower end it is because of the local nature of the site. Those that don't live in the correct area (which is going to be most people) will find little value in the site. But those that do live near the university or who are affiliated with the university will find the site to be something that is very useful. You can create a profile, search the users and look at user profiles with your free membership. You only have to get a paid membership if you want to contact someone directly. So if you are a Wolverine or you live in the area of the university, give the site a try. You will be out nothing but a few minutes of time and there is a good chance you will find someone you like.

Large Friends is a dating site for those that like plus-sized people. The site has a nice design and is very easy to navigate. I did find the sign up process to be a little bit long winded, but I was able to get through it without too much pain. Once inside you can use the search options to find people near you. A quick search of my area returned more than 500 results. There are a lot of users on this site so you should have no trouble finding people no matter where you live.

This site offers some really nice interactive features. There are a ton of blogs and user forums. You can read people's blogs or start your own if you want. There are also chat rooms and instant messaging available. You can use the basic search tool and look at people's profiles with your free membership, but pretty much everything else, including the advanced search tool, will require you to get a paid membership.

Getting a paid membership does have some benefits in addition to just getting access to the aforementioned features. With a paid membership your profile will show up at the top of the search results so you will get a lot more views. There are also a lot of great ways to keep track of friends and pimp out your profile. Maybe the best feature of a paid membership is that you get access to the verified members. These are members who have verified that they are real people with the site. This means that these people are regular people like you who are looking for others so you can know for sure that they are not fake profiles or someone who will never answer your emails or chat requests.

I liked what I saw here. The site has a lot of members, is well designed and has some really nice features. I would have liked to have seen some of them in action without having to get a paid membership, but that is a pretty minor blemish on what is otherwise a very nice site. If you are a plus-sized person or you are looking to date someone who is, give this site a look, I think you will like what you find.

Single Wildcats from the University of Kentucky can use Wildcat Singles to meet and hook up. This is a dating site that is designed primarily for the students, alumni, faculty and friends of the university, but that doesn't mean you have to be involved with the school to use it. However, for the site to work properly you should at least live in general area of the school because almost all of the members do. If you don't live in that area then realistically there will not be any members near you so the site will have no real value to you.

While most non-Wildcats will have little use for this site, it does have some nice features to talk about. The site is very easy to use and signing up for your free membership is a breeze. There are a decent number of members here and the site gives you two different search engines to help you sift through the members and find someone you like. The basic search allows you to search by location and age range. The more advanced search uses the details from your profile to match you with like-minded people. If you skipped filling in these profile details when you signed up you will have to go back and fill them in before the advanced search, called Smart Match, will work for you.

As nice as the search tools are, they are the only real features on this site. I was disappointed in the lack of any kind of interactive features like chat rooms or user forums.

Your free membership will allow you to create a profile, look at other people's profiles and do searches. You only have to get a paid membership if you want to contact people directly. This will let anyone who is interested in the site give it a shot without having to spend any money. I did score the site on the low end simply because most people will not have much of a use for the site due to the fact that all of the members are located in one area. If you do live in that area or you are affiliated with the school then forget the rating and give the site a try. Living in that area will give you access to all of those people and increase your chances of meeting that right person.

War Eagle Singles is also known as the place where Tigers meet. It is a site that is primarily meant to help the single students, alumni and friends of Auburn University meet. The site has a nice looking design and is very easy to navigate. I found signing up for the free membership to be very quick and easy. The profiles in this site can be pretty detailed, but they let you skip filling in most of that information when you sign up and allow you to fill it in later. I like that choice because it lets me check out the site and see what I think before I spend a lot of time filling out my profile. Something I do need to mention here is that almost all of the members of this site live in the general area of the university. You don't have to live there or be involved with the school to sign up for or use this site, but if you don't live near the school there is a very good chance that there will not be any members that live near you.

Giving the site a good looking over is easy. You can search through the user profiles using two different search tools. The first is a basic search that allows you to select an age range and distance from you and sort the members using those criteria. There is also a more advanced option called Smart Match. This option takes the details from your profile and uses them to match you with like-minded people. If you haven't already filled in the details on your profile you will need to do that before the Smart Match option will be of much use to you. You can create a profile, search the member profiles and look at all the profiles with your free membership, but you will need to get a paid membership if you want to contact someone directly.

In the end I did score this site on the lower end primarily because of the local nature of its membership. If you don't live in the correct area the site will be of little value to you. Also, the site does lack any features beyond the search tools which was a let down. However, if you do live near the school or are involved with the school I would recommend that ignore my rating and give the site a try since all of the members live in your area. This will give you a pretty strong chance of meeting someone you like and since the membership is free you are out nothing but a few minutes to try it.