Free General Dating SItes

Fast Cupid
Meet thousands of sexy, intelligent singles near your area and find your match at Fast Cupid.

Matchmaker
The longest running online dating site on the web launched in 1996. An online matchmaking services for a more mature audience, Matchmaker is an online dating site consisting of 35+ serious singles focused on finding long-term serious relationships and those who are marriage minded.

Match.com
You can browse and create a profile absolutely free of charge and other people can contact you, but if you want to contact anyone else... you have to join. The thing is, if you are really serious about finding someone, Match.com has an enticing offer. Simply, join for 6 months and if you do not meet anyone that you are really crazy about, they'll give you 6 months free. Match.com is one of the largest dating networks online... so if you want options, this is a good place to start. For a limited time, you can sign up for a FREE 3-Day Trial. See if there is anything you like, peruse FREE.

MatchDoctor.com  
As one of the world wide webs only *completely free* dating services, Match Doctor does a superb job at offering an entertaining and inexpensive (free) atmosphere for singles in the pursuit of a companion.  At Matchdoctor you can page a specified member into a chat room, send and receive messages, and read pictures profiles with essays full of detailed information.  Be one of the over 500 people who join Matchdoctor daily from around the globe.  

Singles Net
For a limited time, it is absolutely free to contact other members, free to read and receive email from other users, free to create a profile and view other profiles, and create a compatibility profile. They pledge that they have created more marriages than any other dating site. In addition, it only takes 30 seconds to sign up - no super long annoying forms to fill out.

Date.com
Don't let love pass you by and find your match with over 2 million singles around the globe.

American Singles
Want to join in? Just create a free profile, post up to 4 photos, and soon you'll be in the thick of online dating. Online personals couldn't be easier. No credit card required.

Perfect Match
A leading online dating website and matchmaker. Sign up and find different singles near your area with free duet compatibility profile.

Special Interest Dating

Black Singles
The dating website community for black singles that many has found true love here. Available worldwide.

Over 40 Romance
Who said that dating is only for teens and adults? 40 years or older are welcome to this site. US only.

Amatuer Match
Tired of the regular dating sites? Amateur Match is a hot new dating site targeted to fun loving adults. This is for a free sign-up to the site, no credit card is required.

Russian Girls
This is not a 'Russian Mail Order Brides' website. Instead there are thousands of hot Russian girls with whom you can exchange emails, see them on our live video streaming, chat with. Join free with full-access for 3 days (credit card required, but not charged during the trial period).

Dating Entertainment, Quizzes, etc.

Virtual Kiss
You got the date, now what do you do? This site has been around since 1998. I used to love visiting Virtual Kiss when I was 15 or so. You can find everything from kissing tutorials and advice to love quizzes and interactive games.

HotorNot.com
Mostly used by Californians (read: vain people), this would make for an entertaining break at work for a good hard laugh. People list their photos on this site for other people to rate between 1-10 and they list short little profiles. Some people are on the system to meet people, and others are on hotornot.com purely for a little confidence boosting. If you click on meet people, you can flip through mini photo profiles of people in your area or with your interests... if you click, "I want to meet this person" you will end up in a line up of people that want to meet them by email. If they click on you and want to meet you too, the communication via the hotornot messaging center can begin. The service is totally free and very addicting.

Social Networks

Classmates.com
Every wonder what happend to Jen or Mark? Now, you can get back in touch. Simply, register free - enter all your school names from high school through college, and see who has joined the network to keep in touch. Who knows, you might even get a date with the crush you had 10 years ago?!?!

MySpace.com
If this site needs a description, we've got problems. The nice thing now is, you can set your profile to private and only people who you accept as your friends can view it. And, there are starting to be more parental controls. This site is not recommended for kids.

Tribe.net
This is where the hippies, fire dancers, alternative medicine fans, and organic people congregate. ;-) It is a great social network if you are earthy and want to meet people with similar interests.

SocialGrid.com
This site has only been around since May of 2006, and at the time of writing has 40,000 subscribers. Even though their subscriber base is still small, the network is free to use, and it is always free to join and contact other members for social or dating purposes. Looks like it is supported by google ads, and has a lot of search features to wade through the profiles.