Be2.net Review

Costs:

Completely FREE dating site.

Features:

Browse other members' profiles and look at full-sized member pictures before even signing-up.
View all the photographs a member has to offer in a nifty slideshow without before signing-up.
Caters for straight, gay and bisexual men and women
Sign-up quickly and easily. The sign-up process allows you to defer most questions for later, allowing you to sign-up in a flash.
Email other members and reply to emails for free. The internal email system at Be2.net keeps track of your received and sent messages for you.
Chat to other members via instant messenger (you will need to disable your browser's pop-up blocker to use instant messenger).
Video chat with other members (provided you or they have a webcam of course)
Create a favorites list of members
Create a blocklist of members
Comment on other people's profiles - your comment will appear underneath their profile
Report a user as being fake.
Easily see whether members are online or offline
See when a member last logged in - this is a great feature that is missing even from some paid dating sites.
Micro-blogging tool - redirects to another site (160Tag.com)
Rate another user's profile on a scale from 0 to 10 - do you think they're hot or not?
Generate a random male or female profile at the click of a mouse.
Small icons in the corner of a profile allow you to see whether the user smokes or drinks
Forums available for any discussions.
Create music playlists to add to your profile
Modify the way your profile looks by adding HTML, DHTML, or CSS code.
See who's added you to their favorites list
See who's read and who's deleted your emails.

Joining:

Be2.net is totally free to join
When you sign up you will be prompted to upload a photograph. You must do this in order to progress to the next page. On the next page you will be prompted to answer a few questions about yourself and what you're looking for in a mate.
Your profile must be approved before you can access al the full features of a site. Typically this takes about 10-20 minutes.

Performing a Search:

A full search facility is available, allowing members to search by:
- member email address
- name or nickname
- gender and sexual orientation
- country, state and city
- marital status
- whether or not a member has children
- age range
- height range
- weight range
- hair color
- eye color
- drinking preferences
- smoking preferences
- hobbies
- date when profile was last updated / created
You may also filter the search results for profiles that have video greetings attached

Editor's Verdict:

Be2.net is a totally free dating site that would give many premium, paid dating sites a run for their money. Be2.net has all the features you would expect in a dating site, like the ability to browse other profiles, perform searches, email and instant message other members, along with some more advanced features like video chat, and the ability to see when a member last logged in, and all for free! Some of the features provided by Be2.net are actually missing from some premium, paid dating sites, like the ability to see when members were last online and the ability to see who's added you to their favorites list. Be2.net also has a few features that we haven't come across anywhere before, like the ability to see if a member has read your email and even the ability to see if he or she has deleted it, which are very useful features indeed.

One of our favorite Be2.net features was a hot-or-not feature, where you can pick a random female or male profile, and rate him/her out of 10, after which the system will present you with another profile for you to rate. This provides hours of entertainment and is a feature we found ourselves quite distracted by when we came to review the site!

Another feature we particularly liked was the fact that you can change the appearance of your profile by adding myspace codes to it, including html, dhtml and css code (basically, any code you can add to myspace you can also add to Be2.net). This personalises your profile page, which will appeal greatly to the web 2.0 generation of internet users. You can also add your own Youtube videos to your profile. If you don't know what we're talking about here, then you need not worry about it - you can just leave your profile appearance the way it is.

As a free dating site, you do have to put up with a fair number of advertisements, some of which intrude into the center of the profile you're looking at. But a large number of advertisements are the norm for free dating sites, as their primary source of income is through advertising. After a while however you do get used to the advertising and become somewhat blind to it, and at the end of the day the site is free, so who can complain?

Be2.net has a comprehensive search facility, allowing you to perform all manner of searches, including a hobby search, which might be ideal if you're looking for someone with the same interests you have. The only parameter missing is the zip code search parameter, allowing you to search by zip code, but you can search for members by city for any country in the world, so this was not a problem.

Be2.net currently has around 120,000 members, which is quite low compared to some of the more popular paid dating sites. Hopefully the membership base of Be2.net will increase as time goes by, as it is certainly deserving of more attention.

With so many advanced features and a comprehensive and powerful search facility, all wrapped up in an intuitively designed site and all for free, we have no hesitation in recommending Be2.net!

Please note that Be2.net has now been discontinued.

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