Personal ads are hundreds of years old. There were already personal ads in newspapers at the start of 19th century.

Now, with the invention of Internet, you might place your personal advertisement in front of hundreds of thousands of available singles. In terms of reaching the widest audience for your personal advertisement , nothing may compare with online dating services.

Should you even bother with placing a personal ad in newspapers those days?

I have been affixing personal ads in newspapers, and I have been posting personal ads online, and my acquired skill is that online dating services beat traditional personals every instant.

This is why:

1. You can reach many more many people through your online advertisement .

I have said about it in the very initial but this is assessment of worth repeating: newspaper ads might NEVER compare with the audience you can reach online. Virtually every one has connection to the Internet these days, and since you are reading it online, I am sure you would prefer someone computer literate as your mate.

2. You might put much more information in your online ad.

To include as much data in your newspaper advertisement as you might in your online ad would cost you a fortune - and most dating sites will allow you to place your ad for free. Your online advertisement is nicely structured and effortless to read, so the amount of data does not seem overwhelming, as it would be if you tried to incorporate the identical amount of experience in your newspaper ad.

3. You may put a photo with your online ad.

A picture is value a thousand words. All online dating services will allow you to place a photo, so people answering your advertisement already understand how you look like. All things being equal, who would you prefer to contact, a human who has a photo in their personal ad, or a person without one?

4. You might change your online advertisement as almost always as you want.

You cannot change a newspaper ad - once printed, its done. If you want to change something in your newspaper advertisement and see what works better, you have to place many ads - and you have to pay again every instant. Online, you might change your advertisement as almost always as you please and check what works the best.

5. Your online ad has no expiry date.

How long do you keep newspapers on your desk? You are lucky if you keep receiving responses to your newspaper advertisement for two weeks. Your online ad can stay on the dating page forever, until you decide to remove it.

6. You can view ads of many people that answer you online.

Offline, you have no understanding about everybody answering your advertisement - and it might be difficult to obtain answers to certain questions. Online, most of the basics are covered in the personal profile, and you might also view their photo, before answering them.

7. You may communicate anonymously online.

You may talk to all the people answering your online ads without giving away your personal contact details for as long as you want. Offline, you have to give away your personal contact information immediately. Online dating is safer.

8. Online dating is cheaper.

And the last but not the least, online personal ads will cost you less than traditional newspaper ads. Most dating sites will allow you to place a personal advertisement for costless, and many will also allow you to receive responses from other members costless. On most sites, you only pay when you want to answer ads of other members. If you decide to buy a subscription, the price is less than you would pay for a movie ticket and popcorn - and you can meet thousands and thousands of everybody.

As you can plainly see, online dating beats traditional personals every measure .

So, the communication is clear:
If you want to improve your love life - get online!