Cherry Blossoms, Inc., the world’s first international picture personals business, was started in Hawaii over 30 years ago. As their good reputation spread, their business grew and in 1995 the Cherry Blossoms magazine gave way to a new website where single men and women from all over the world could easily publish their personal ads and contact like-minded people seeking love and marriage.

Cherry Blossoms now has over 75,000 active members worldwide and over 100,000 couples have become married or engaged through Cherry Blossoms since 1974.

If you are willing to invest the time and energy to search, email and chat you can find your true love. Men and women from Australia, China, Europe, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Russia, South America, Thailand, and many other countries are searching for a loving mate.

Cherry Blossoms has an instant messenger, chat rooms, and member email to help you find “The One”. Their capable immigration department is ready to assist US & Canadian citizens in filing a petition to bring their true love back to their country.

The only thing standing between you and finding your true love is taking action! Visit Cherry Blossoms today!

According to an article that I found on Newsday this morning, new legislation scheduled for consideration by an Assembly committee on Monday will force online dating Web sites to take more responsibility for protecting online dating users from predators.

Despite advice from Bill Ashworth, the director of state government affairs at Yahoo! who says that fraud and differing state laws make background checks unreliable, the proposed law would require Internet dating services to inform their customers whether or not background checks have been conducted on their members.

Sites that do not conduct background checks would have to post that information on their sites in large bold capital letters, while dating services that do conduct background checks must advise whether the service permits site access to those with criminal convictions.

Quite frankly, I think that anyone using a dating service regardless of whether it screens its members, should get an independent background check on anyone whom they’ve met online and intend to persue a deeper relationship.

For more information, please consult my article What Can Be Learned From Conducting a Personal Background Check? that also lists some recommended services.

What are your thoughts? Would you trust the screening provided an online dating service? Have you ever had an independent background check conducted? Did you ever wish (too late) you’d had someone screened. Please leave your comments below…

There are estimated to be more than 20 million single parents in the United States today.

Moreover, single parent families are the fastest growing household type in North America and single parents represent 30% of the online daters.

If you are a single mom or dad who has been finding it difficult to meet someone new or get out there and date, you will appreciate the new dating site specifically for single parents - Single Parent Love Life.

Featured on Global TV, Single Parent Love Life (SPLL) is committed to making it easier for Single Parents (SPs) to find friendship, a date, passion or the love of a lifetime. SPLL is also the first Internet dating site to focus on introducing the millions of single men and women without children who are completely open to meeting a single parent.

Read the rest of the review here.

OK, I thought you should see this. It’s a flagrant example of the real problem with free dating sites and brand-new dating services.

This is a request made by a project developer through Elance.com, which provides outsourcing services for freelance programmers, web & logo designers, copywriters, illustrators and consultants.

Need 500 unique dating profiles included. English must be readable and understandable. Include age, interests, and what your looking for in a date. 3-8 sentences. Sample profile included.

Here’s that sample profile.

Looking for a casual date or a new friend to hang out with from time to time. Cuban female 22/5′6/Cute..wait… very cute. Im serious about meeting for some drinks or a date guys. Dont wanna make my ad long so email me and I’ll tell you a bit more about my self. If your looking for dating please dont be gay or married! Or married and gay LOL!!

Now why would a dating site developer want someone to create 500 fake singles profiles? Well, they want to ‘pad’ their database with fake profiles to make it look like there are a lot more singles active on the site than there really are.

The point is that you should stick with the tried and true services that don’t need to pull such stunts.

Good examples include those listed under my 5-Star Dating Services.

Is finding your soul mate instinct, or can science make you fall in love?

NBC and Perfectmatch.com have teamed up to present an exciting new dating special: SCIENCE OF LOVE: A MODERN DATING EXPERIMENT.

This show poses the question: Which is better at finding your PERFECT MATCH…instinct or science?

Check out a sneak peak of Science of Love: A Modern Dating Experiment at Perfectmatch. The show starts June 25th at 10/9 Central and airs on NBC.

I am happy to announce that I’ve added ArabLounge.com to the fold here at Sage-Hearts.com.

ArabLounge is the largest Arab singles and friendship community geared towards Arab men and women as well as the largest community for Muslims and Christians. Arab lounge site features include Arab photo galleries, an advice column, an Arab chat room, video Instant Messenger and much more.

Whether you are from a Lebanese, Egyptian, Kuwaiti, Iraqi, Yemeni or other Middle Eastern background, Arab Lounge is a great way to meet other Arabs for dating and friendship.

ArabLounge.com Features Include:

• Free profile
• Browse profiles and pictures for free
• Send a Flirt to get his or her attention
• Email members
• Message boards
• Advice column
• See who has viewed your profile
• See who is online
• Newsletter with your latest matches

Join Arab Lounge for free today!

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Singles at Sage-Hearts.com come from countries ALL over the world and every ethnic group.

To celebrate our geographic and cultural diversity, and to help you find someone who is either in your area or originally from your part of the world, I’ve added the ” World Singles” group of dating sites to the International page of the site.

The World Singles group includes the following singles sites :

• Arab Lounge
• ArmenianPersonals.com
• DesiKiss.com
• EligibleGreeks.com
• EthiopianPersonals.com
• IranianPersonals.com
• ItalianoSingles.com
• PakistaniLounge.com
• SoulSingles.com
• TurkishPersonals.com
• Vietvibe.com

These new sites are in addition to the services we already have listed for Canadian, American, Asian, German, French, Filipino, Korean and Russian singles.

Click here to see all the International dating sites listed.

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This sounds like a GREAT plan, considering what I’ve seen on dates over the years…

SEATTLE, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ — Perfectmatch.com(R), the fastest-growing online relationship service for adults seeking long-lasting relationships, announced today a partnership with BeBetterGuys.com, an online lifestyle resource. BeBetterGuys brings its expertise in men’s fashion, grooming, dating, and etiquette directly to Perfectmatch’s more than four million members.

The BeBetterGuys “Game Plan” provides a nuts-and-bolts how-to approach guide to help Perfectmatch’s male membership prepare for, and enjoy, a more successful in-person experience. Click here to read the full press release, but beware of the pop-ups!

Better yet, visit Perfect Match now and Get 50% off select subscriptions to Perfectmatch.com!

YouCanGetMe.com is an innovative dating site with audio-video chats that singles of all ages and backgrounds can use to make their online dating experiences more life-like. Being able to see and hear others reduces the risk of disappointment when arranging a first time offline meeting.

YouCanGetMe offers a free registration to visitors from all countries around the globe, a free profile, free search tools, free picture upload and free winks to attract other singles.

They have built a safe and hassle-free dating environment where singles can make sure other people are who they say they are. A secure internal email system makes communication between members a private matter and the opportunity to create a list of your favourite singles means you don’t have to spend hours trying to find them again.

Instant messaging is also available for those who like talking for hours on end and YouCanGetMe allows you to block other members if you decide you don’t want to be contacted by them.

YouCanGetMe enables members to escalate their online dates beyond just text and still photographs and uses their “See Me, Hear Me, Meet Me™” technology. Most online dating members want a real date as quickly as possible…. so they can meet, chat and find out if that person is ‘The One’! This improves the odds of dating success in the real world, and most importantly, lowers the stress level associated with meeting someone for the first time - no more blind dates!

YouCanGetMe provides members with the tools to do all this and make that date happen. There is the option of using live audio and visual technology together which creates that virtual date.

Check out YouCanGetMe.com today!

I’ve just added JLove.com to the site for Jewish singles. JLove.com is an online Jewish personals dating website designed for Jewish singles who are interested in meeting potential partners who are within the faith.

Read my JLove review, or see the full range of Jewish dating sites… OR,visit JLove right now!