Canadian Personals Review and Free Trial

Dating websites are a great way to look for partners within a particular geographical area. While you can scour the bars and nightclubs in your town for a date, casting your net wider - for instance across a province or country - proves to be a more difficult proposition. At such times online dating dedicated to a specific region appears to a far better option. One such site is CanadianPersonals.net and here is what you can expect from it.

Canadian Personals is primarily for single men and women in Canada. The site is a great place to meet single men and women if you are located anywhere in Canada. However list of international locations users can sign up from indicate that anyone interested in the land, culture and people of Canada is equally welcome. Also the only relationships encouraged here seem to be heterosexual. The types of relationship available on the site range from friendship and casual dating to long term attachments. Since this is basically a relationship-oriented site, adult content is not allowed. The 100,000 members may seem smaller in number as compared to other dating websites but Canadian Personals is a rapidly growing website and is one of the best options for Canadian singles.

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It is quite easy to sign up with Canadian Personals and best of all, free to start with. The first page covers details about you like height, body type, eye and hair color and ethnicity. You're also asked to fill in what languages you speak, your education level, occupation and personal habits like smoking and drinking. You’ll also find a lot of French speaking singles on Canadian Personals. Thereafter you will be required to fill in your marital status, views on children, and religious affiliations. Lastly comes your geographical location, your date of birth and your full which the site claims will not be displayed on its pages. From here you can go ahead to putting together a basic introduction and a catchy headline or move ahead to the section on essays. The latter would probably include essays on yourself, your requirements in a partner and what you are looking for in life on the whole. And even completing this section can be time-taking, in the end it will vastly increase your chances of finding an ideal match since it will give other members an in-depth idea into what kind of partner you are looking for. The last step in creating your profile is of course accompanying it with a great photo and once it is approved, you are all set to begin your search. You can browse photo profiles of single men and women from Canada.

Canadian Personals offers all the viewing, searching and communication options of major online dating websites. All members can view profiles and photos while message boards and photo galleries are accessible to paid members only.

Basic searching options like browsing by age, location, gender and online status are open to all and you can filter even these to profiles which are accompanied by photos. A username search is handy for looking up a profile that may have caught your attention previously. Again members can make use of advanced search categories which will bring up matches according to specific parts of the profile, new profiles, recently updated profiles or those that they may have contacted earlier by sending smiles, greetings, email or instant messages.

The Contact section at Canadian Personals allows members a host of communication features to get in touch with other profiles. Free members can send a ‘smile’ or an ‘e-card’ whereas paid members can send emails, instant messages or chat in real time with potential matches. Then there are ‘ice-breakers’ you can send to a profile you like in order to test the waters and see if your interest is returned.

The special thing about Canadian Personals is the plethora of search options which apart from basic and advanced browsing also includes Color Coded Personality matching as well as a feature known as ‘Think You’d Click’. While creating your profile you can take a quick test to generate a ‘Color Code' based on the type of personality you have. The code is compiled according to your answers to the questions of the test and in the result you are given percentage scale of the different colors. This is greatly useful in filtering members that match up well to your personality and as the color code as well as the percentage matching appears next to your profile, they are also more likely to see and find you on the site.

The next unique feature is ‘Think You’d Click’ which allows you to decide if you want to get to know the member better. Under this system, three options feature alongside any profile that you may choose to consider. If you click the ‘yes’ option, the site discreetly slips you in with the rest of that person's ‘Think You'd Click' matches, and if they say ‘yes’ to you, then the site notifies both of you to facilitate a hook up. However if you click on ‘maybe’ then the site will ask you later about that particular profile while a ‘no’ from you will prevent the profile from ever figuring under the ‘Think You’d Click’ feature. Canadian Personals offers three kinds of membership plans to its users. The first is completely free and allows members basic facilities like viewing and simple searching but no communication.

The second type of membership at Canadian Personals is known as Standard and costs $9.99 per month, $23.97 for three months and $ 41.94 for six months. This plan allows members use of all viewing, searching and communication features on the site.

The third type of membership is Premium and includes a small fee for various add-on services. One of these is ‘Spotlight’ which allows a member to feature on the Canadian Personals homepage and another is ‘Stand-Out’ where a member’s profile is highlighted with a special background color and receives a larger area in search results.

All the rates mentioned are in Canadian dollars and this facility of accepting payment in the national currency of Canada is a great convenience to Canadian users. However the site also offers members the option of paying in US dollars should they choose to.