Daters seek catchy personal ads
Most people read personal ads looking for love. Staffers at personalstrainer.com read them for mistakes.Take this gentleman's recent ad under the headline "Carpe Diem": "Heya, I'm 30, 6'1", very athletic, overly educated, ambitious ... professional by day, and adventurous by night. I'm looking for a companion to share in all that life has to offer. Beauty, confidence, intelligence, ambition, and...
Personal Ads: E-Commerce Report
Online matchmakers are helping to bolster the finances of their corporate parents as they raise the romantic hopes of clients.
THE advertising market has been ailing for the better part of a year, particularly online advertising. But some Web categories are in remarkably good health, like personal ads. Sites like Match.com of Ticketmaster, Matchmaker.com of Terra Lycos and ClubConnect of Yahoo are helping to shore up the finances of their parent companies, even as the sites raise the romantic hopes of millions of Internet users.|Personal ads on online matchmaking sites are helping to shore up finances of...
Disgusted female seeks end of personal ads
Go figure the personal ads. Since seven out of every 10 of the people who write them are attractive, trim, athletic, financially secure, fun-loving, sincere, professional people who enjoy walks on beach and are seeking an attractive, trim, athletic, financially secure, fun-loving, sincere, professional person of the opposite sex who likes the same, you've got to wonder why they spend the money -- not that they aren't loaded with it, of course -- on personal ads....
MWM ISO CUTE, ARRESTING PERSONAL ADS
By Rodger Mullen Staff writer Occasionally, I like to scan the personal ads. When I say ``occasionally,'' what I mean is ``when my wife isn't looking.'' Maybe I'm curious about why people would advertise for a date or a mate in the pages of a newspaper or magazine. Maybe I'm curious about whether any of these matches actually work out. Maybe I'm just some sort of...
Who uses personal ads?
Dear Ann Landers: "Smarter Now in Florida" wanted to know what kind of people look for companionship through personal ads. They are the same "losers" who look for employment in the classifieds because they have exhausted all other possibilities and are pretty darned desperate. And how about us morons who look in the newspaper to find a used car, kitchen appliances and "like-new" TV sets? Heaven help us! Haven't...