Lavalife
Lavalife.com
is exciting. How exciting? Well, are you tired yet at 
looking
at old dated
photos of your potential dates? What about all those carefully
posed photos straining desperately to show off the "good side"?
Well, Lavalife is one of the few sites out there that offers video!
Yes, video of who you are looking at! Top that would ya!
How's this video thing work? Well, when you instant message someone,
if you have a webcam handy, you click the webcam button and it turns
on your camera. Then you click the "record" button and you record your
message. Stop recording, review it, delete and re-record until you
are happy and then send it. It will be attached to your instant message
and pop-up on the other user's screen. How can anyone try to decieve
you about who they really are if they are using video? They can try,
true, but it'll be harder!
You can also record a video greeting and post that to your profile.
Also a great feature with Lavalife is that you can post somethings
that are only accessible "backstage". And you have to permit someone
"backstage" to see the extra things. That way you don't have to worry
(if that's your thing) about ever Tom, Dick, and Harry (Sally too)
seeing things before your ready. You have the control.
You can join Lavalife for free to tour the site and see how much you
really do like it before you commit to being a paying member. And when
you decide that you'll discover something neat! 
Lavalife doesn't require
you to pay a monthly fee -- rather you purchase "credits" and use them
as you choose. So if you spend a month vacationing in Cancun,
you wouldn't have used any credits during your time away. Very nice
feature, this pay-as-you-go idea, especially if you are just
getting into online dating and testing it out.
Lavalife.com is,
of course, a dating website. They have three different levels on their
site: Dating, Relationships, and Intimate. You can
choose whether your profile can be seen by which of the 3 levels of
searches (or all of them). Search the profiles in the area that most
peakes your interest. And when you fill out your profile you can put
in as much or as little info about yourself as you'd like to. You get
better results putting more information in, but your in charge here,
that's what counts! If you need pointers, Lavalife has
a slew of tips, including one on how to write your profile in less
than 5 minutes (worth reading!)
Another nifty feature of Lavalife is
the mobile section where if you haven't gotten enough of this at home
on your computer, you can text
message from your cell phone, too!
And for those of us who maybe need help not only with online dating
but also dating in general, Lavalife fits
that bill too with lots and lots of well thought out and highly informative
articles.
Lavalife.com is a great online dating service to use, it is modern and
technologically cool. Give it a try!
